Vince Orza, the Dean of the Meinders School of Business at OCU, and who recently sold his restaurant business, Eateries, which, "operates and franchises about 60 Garfield's Restaurant & Pub locations in nearly 20 states...[and Garcia's Mexican Restaurants in Arizona and five other states and a Pepperoni Grill restaurant in Oklahoma," talks to the Flashpoint team about the need for illegal immigrants to keep coming to America to do the jobs Americans don't want to do.

He draws a parallel between his own Italian grandparents, along with other immigrant communities like the Vietnamese who often came here as refugees, without papers, and the current migrants coming here illegally from Mexico. While he does acknowlege that the opponents of illegal immigration have a point, in that these illegal immigrants are receiving health benefits not afforded to the 47 million Americans who also don't have insurance (or the previous immigrant groups in the country), he does not address the issue in this video that previous immigrant groups did not set up territorial consulates inside the U.S., or promote reconquista-type campaigns.

See Vince on the first two episodes of Flashpoint by clicking here or on the image below.

Labels: Andrés Chao, Illegal Immigration, Immigration Reform, Vince Orza

Posted at 4/08/2008 10:00:00 AM