With unemployment at 9.2%, you would think that the U.S. Secretary of Labor would be working hard to protect American jobs for Americans. You would be wrong.

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis believes the following:

1. Illegal aliens should be paid $7.50 per hour.
2. Workers from Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatamala are an important part of the American labor force.
3. They pay taxes and receive few government services.
4. We need to take steps to level the playing field.
5. We should sign agreements with the embassies of foreign countries to protect "their" citizens who work in America.
6. No matter how they came to the United States, these workers have certain rights, including a right to "our" jobs.
7. The Department of Labor should have a 24/7 "hotline" for illegal aliens to report businesses who don't pay them at least $7.50 per hour.

I wish I were making this up, or simply having a bad dream, but unfortunately, the U.S. Department of Labor's positions that I listed above are gleened from a press release of Secretary of Labor Solis' comments posted on the Department of Labor website. Most are direct quotes from her June 16, 2011 press release.

What Secretary Solis should be doing is protecting American jobs. Someone needs to tell Labor Secretary Solis and the Obama Administration that illegal aliens do not have "rights" to American jobs. She might could claim she's only referring to those migrant workers who are here legally, but she makes it quite clear that she doesn't care if they are in the United States legally or not.

Labor Secretary Solis is guilty of "misprision of a felony," and in my opinion "misprision of treason." Labor Secretary Solis, with the full support and President Obama is "giving support and comfort" to illegal aliens already in the United States, and by protecting their unlawful jobs, encouraging more illegal immigration.

8 USC 1324a Unlawful Employment of Aliens makes it a crime "to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien."

8 USC 1324a Unlawful Employment of Aliens also makes it a crime to knowingly continue employing illegal aliens, "It is unlawful for a person or other entity, after hiring an alien for employment in accordance with paragraph (1), to continue to employ the alien in the United States knowing the alien is (or has become) an unauthorized alien with respect to such employment."

If it's a crime to hire illegal aliens, and its a crime to continue employing an illegal alien once you find out they are illegal, why on God's green Earth is the Labor Secretary signing agreements with foreign countries to protect their "illegal alien workforce?"

It is my belief that once unemployment in the United States rises above a certain level, lets say 5% for the sake of discussion, that the issuance of ALL migrant visas be suspended until such time as the unemployment rate falls below 5%, and that the Labor Secretary should tell the ambassadors of Mexico, Guatamala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua that citizens from their countries caught working in the United States will be on the next plane south.

Legal and lawful migrant workers don't need special protections.  Illegal aliens deserve humanitarian treatment as they are re-patriated to their home countries, AND NOTHING MORE.

The U.S. Labor Secretary should be working night and day to protect American jobs for Americans, not giving support, aid, and comfort to the largest invasion in world history, period! This is outrageous behavior. Ask your Congressman and Senators WHY the Secretary of Labor is protecting illegal alien jobs instead of American jobs.

Jeff Lewis, National Director, FIRE Coalition