The daily drum beat of “illegal immigration” gets tiresome. Let’s be honest, these are jobs that American’s won’t work and if America did take these jobs, who is willing to pay $3.00 for a head of lettuce or $4.00 a pound for Chicken or Beef? You substantially raise the wages in any industry, you raise the price of the end product. But despite what Bubba and the right wing noise machine spews out everyday, illegal immigrants are not responsible for the extinction of the middle class. It’s NAFTA and so called “free trade”, millions and millions of high paying factory and industry jobs have been shipped overseas. NAFTA is destroying our vital middle class despite what Lou Dobbs says. Here’s and op-ed piece that talks about the smoke and mirrors that the Bush administration has set up to attemp to show they are going to get tough on China and its trade practices. It’s we going to get tough (wink, wink…nod, nod).