Day Without A Mexican

For anyone that did not know, today was the day that Mexican immigrants either walked out of or did not come to work in protest of the recent actions taken by the US government. My day was effected by this as I am an employee in the service industry which relies heavily on immigrant workers. About half of our kitchen staff did not work today. Everything worked out ok except we were without a dishwasher and busser’s the entire day. Fonte stepped in and helped do the dishes at night, however. During lunch things went smoothly. The servers would take turns doing dished when their tables didn't need much and we got the job done. The night shift was a different story. By 7pm Fonte was far behind on doing the dishes. Usually the dishwasher has the help of a few busser’s to get the job done. By 8pm a few of us servers no longer had tables and went back in the dish-pit to help Fonte get caught up. I ended up spending about two hours back there and it was some of the hardest and hottest work I have ever done. I am not quite sure where I stand on the whole immigration issue yet, but it is clear to me now that this country quite possibly could not function without the immigrant work force that we have. We were able to make things work out for the day, but I could not imagine having to do this for an extended period of time. Besides, this country should not take for granted the fact that just about our entire population has some form of immigration in its history. There are certain sacrifices that have to be made if American's want to keep the kind of lifestyles they lead and we should not be so quick to dismiss a part of our population that has become a major part in the way our society functions.