Letter to the editor: Let the immigrants come in and fill our jobs

As I drive through different sections of Greensburg, and travel through other towns and cities, I see the same thing everywhere: “Hiring” signs.

We have noticed that our popular Sunday morning breakfast restaurant has empty tables an a 45-minute wait time to get a table. Why? Because they can’t find help. Many of our favorite places shut down two or three days a week because they don’t have enough help. Stores cut back their daily hours for the same reason.

So where are all the people?

In the last century, it was the immigrants who worked hard to build this country. I think President Joe Biden should open the gates into the USA as wide as possible and let the immigrants roll in. These people walk hundreds of miles to provide their families a better life. Sure, you are going to have the undesirables mixed in but if they are vetted properly, they could be filtered out. This is no different than the undesirables who are citizens mixed in with the Americans. It isn’t the immigrants who are shooting up our schools, churches and malls.

Why is it that at intersections we find beggars holding cardboard signs with hard-luck stories, when right behind them are “Hiring” signs?

Joe D’Astolfo

Hempfield