The lesson here is painfully clear:  The notion that illegals do the jobs Americans won't is pure fiction.  Want proof?

Look here:

Applicants line up to fill jobs left empty by Swift plant raid

GREELEY - The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant earlier this week was out the door Thursday.

Apparently the other psuedo issue of requiring real ID is not an issue either:

Greg Bonifacio heard about the job openings on television and brought his passport, his Colorado driver's license, his Social Security card and even a color photograph of himself as a young Naval officer to prove his military service.

"I don't want to hassle with any identification problems because of my last name," said Bonifacio, a 59- year-old Thornton resident of Filipino heritage.

Has Swift learned anything?  Maybe…

As it turned out, the Colorado Workforce office that was taking applications did not require any identification.

That would come later for those who made it past the interview process.

Perhaps that is ok, as long as they actually follow up on it.

On the mixed reactions to the raid, one person said:

Like many others who had mixed emotions about the raid, Maxine Hernandez said she was upset that families were torn apart, but believes illegal immigrants should not get work using fake documents.

"I guess I'm in the middle," she said. "But I do think they should have planned (the raid) better so that innocent children wouldn't be left behind."

Hernandez, who had gone to the employment office because her husband was there to apply for unemployment insurance, decided to apply for a job at Swift on a whim.

"My whole family used to work there. My mom, my aunt, uncles," she said. "I guess it sort of runs in our blood."

But the bottom line is that the illegals do not fill "a void" as much as people think, they are actually taking away jobs Americans and Legal Immigrants want, not providing an otherwise missing workforce.

The defenses these companies hide behind are getting slim.

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