   When President Bush announced the elements of the
“comprehensive” bill that he was supporting to address problems
involved with illegal immigration, he stressed the importance of
illegal aliens to the American economy by stating repeatedly
that illegals performed jobs “that Americans won’t do.” I winced
each time he said this.  What I find so disingenuous and,
frankly, insulting about this statement is that it represents an
indictment of the American work ethic with so little
justification to support the claim.  Americans are not lazy
people. Nor are we too proud to get our hands dirty picking
fruit, waiting on tables, working at construction sites or
performing any number of other jobs for which “undocumented
workers” are presumed to be the sole source of labor.  My
experience is not unlike that of other Americans. As a young
man, I picked peaches, tomatoes and cherries in my pre-teen
summer months. I washed windows and cleaned bathrooms at service
stations during that bygone era when “service stations” a