One of the most important illegal immigration-related articles you'll ever read is Business Week's cover story "Embracing Illegals". It discusses how several major U.S. corporations are profiting from illegal immigration. And, no, it's not an expose. In fact, it reads more like BW promoting a hot new market.

While some of the corporations they discuss are circumspect, others freely admit that they're profiting off illegal immigration. And, BW makes the point that those companies are able to do that because the federal government refuses to do its job. No doubt companies that profit off illegal activity donate heavily to both major political parties, partly explaining why the government is looking the other way.

BW would not have printed an article like this a decade or two ago: they would have feared being accused of promoting illegal activity. What's ahead in another decade or two, BW providing a list of good places to illegally dump toxic waste?

Throughout the article, BW and corporations show a great deal of contempt for the concerns of American citizens, referring to "anti-immigrant" sentiments and the like. With this article, BW has made one major error in judgment: most Americans are opposed to illegal immigration, and attempting to smear three-quarters of the public as "anti-immigrant" may prove to have been quite an unwise move.

While it might be disheartening to realize the powerful forces that those who are opposed to illegal immigration are up against, let this serve as a wakeup call to take immediate action.

The following are just a few of the things you can do. And, whatever you do, you can have a much greater effect if you discuss this issue with others and encourage them to do the same:

• If you subscribe to BW, stop. Apparently American citizens are no longer in their demographic...
• If you do business with the companies in the article that support illegal immigration, stop. (On a related note, see "Follow the Money" to Oppose Home Depot!)...
• Support Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement (domain expired or hijacked; cache here), Federation for American Immigration Reform, and other groups...
• Encourage your representatives to take action against these companies...
• Encourage your representatives to take action against those parts of the federal government that support or condone illegal immigration...
• Let your representatives know that you won't donate or vote for them or their parties unless they come out strongly against illegal immigration and its profiteers...

All of those are fairly easy. And, if you don't do them now you will probably regret it later.