Eastern Washington is mostly agricultural. How many illegal immigrants make it this far north, I don't know for sure, but there are lots of them. They help get the crops in. This is long hours and dirty, sweaty work, and they get paid by the hundredweight or the bushel basket, so it's slog, slog, slog all day long, usually in dusty, insecticide laden air, just to make a few bucks.

When the season is over, they leave.

Most U. S. citizens, no matter how down and out, simply won't touch work like this.

The real problem is not so much illegal immigrants; it is legal immigrants who become naturalized. They tend to vote about 2 to 1 for Democrats rather than Republicans.

"Ay, there's the rub!"

Don Firth