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`Jobs that Americans won't do' filled by desperate migrants
Yahoo! News ^ | Stephen Franklin

Posted on 01/18/2005 7:06:31 AM PST by ClintonBeGone

Edited on 01/18/2005 3:40:29 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

She is dizzy, almost wobbly. Her head aches, her coughing won't stop, and because she doesn't have enough money she has not filled her four prescriptions nor seen a doctor recently.

But that doesn't stop her.

Soon it will be midnight, and Ipifania Dominguez will be back at work cleaning up blood, bone and fat in the world's largest pork slaughterhouse. She'll be back in the "head room," as she calls it, where meat is cut from pigs' heads.


(Excerpt) Read more at story.news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; bushamnesty; diversity; hardworking; immigrants; immigration; meltingpot; oneamerica; openborders
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This country continues to be built on the back of hard working, dedicated immigrants. The sooner we pass the president's plan, the better off we'll all be.
1 posted on 01/18/2005 7:06:32 AM PST by ClintonBeGone
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To: Bikers4Bush; Dane

The real face of immigration -Bump


2 posted on 01/18/2005 7:10:01 AM PST by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: ClintonBeGone

As long as they are here legally, I don't have a problem with them.


3 posted on 01/18/2005 7:10:28 AM PST by Tigerjam
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To: ClintonBeGone

This was previously posted.


4 posted on 01/18/2005 7:10:53 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (This space outsourced to India)
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To: Tigerjam

"As long as they are here legally, I don't have a problem with them."

Read the article. Most of those in the article are not here legally. They have fake papers.


5 posted on 01/18/2005 7:11:31 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: ClintonBeGone
"This country continues to be built on the back of hard working, dedicated immigrants. The sooner we pass the president's plan, the better off we'll all be."

Well then why don't we just invalidate any other laws we don't happen to like?

The woman is a criminal, her employer a felon. There is a good probability the documents she has are stolen or forged.

Legalization by deportation - not legislation!

6 posted on 01/18/2005 7:11:36 AM PST by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: ClintonBeGone
FROM THE ARTICLE:

"It's not jobs Americans don't want to do. These are wages and working conditions Americans don't want to accept," says Ira Melman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, an opponent of lowering the barriers for undocumented workers.

"Why not let the free market determine what wages ought to be instead of flooding the market with low-wage, foreign labor?" he asks.

7 posted on 01/18/2005 7:11:36 AM PST by BenLurkin (Big government is still a big problem.)
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To: KC_Conspirator

Sorry, it didn't come up in a search for "jobs".


8 posted on 01/18/2005 7:15:26 AM PST by ClintonBeGone (In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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To: ClintonBeGone
...her coughing won't stop....

Oh yeah, that's someone I want working in my food supply chain. NOT!

This whole dreary POS article is a liberal tear-jerker for the supposedly down-trodden...who are apparently sending all their ill-gotten (can you say ILLEGAL?) wages back to their cronies in Mexico. Probably encouraging them to come over when they can too. Also illegally.

If the liberals care so much about the poor, "desperate" workers...Why isn't something done about the Mexican socialist enterprise? Oh yeah, this is not your "Father's" Immigration story, bud.

9 posted on 01/18/2005 7:15:43 AM PST by Paul Ross (Life is NOT like a box of chocolates...)
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To: ClintonBeGone

Americans won't do the work at the price paid. If not for the Fed policy of unrestricted immigration, wages would rise until labor appeared to do the work. That would be a GOOD thing. The Fed policy is in effect a MAXIMUM WAGE law.


10 posted on 01/18/2005 7:16:24 AM PST by DManA
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To: ClintonBeGone

Notice not a single real company is named. This reads like Jayson Blair....


11 posted on 01/18/2005 7:17:56 AM PST by Paul Ross (Life is NOT like a box of chocolates...)
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To: ClintonBeGone

Legal or illegal they are being treated like dogs and it is wrong. Where is the father of this 35 yr old 6 children?


12 posted on 01/18/2005 7:18:09 AM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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Not a single company, eh? This, from the article:

"Dominguez and 200 others work for a contractor, QSI Inc., which nightly cleans the Smithfield Foods Inc. plant in Tar Heel, a colossus that employs up to 6,000 workers and ships 6 million pounds of pork daily."

Reading is fundamental.


13 posted on 01/18/2005 7:19:33 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: Paul Ross
Read a little further: Dominguez and 200 others work for a contractor, QSI Inc., which nightly cleans the Smithfield Foods Inc. plant in Tar Heel, a colossus that employs up to 6,000 workers and ships 6 million pounds of pork daily.
14 posted on 01/18/2005 7:19:55 AM PST by JennysCool (QuarkXPress has caused an error in QuarkXPress. QuarkXPress will now close.)
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To: ClintonBeGone
These "jobs that Americans won't do" used to be starting out at $10/hr in the 70's. Now they are starting at $5-6/hr, with no advancement.

Face it, someone is making a lot of money in the meat packing industry, and it isn't the farmers or workers. If a company makes a practice of hiring illegal immigrants, shut down the plants.
15 posted on 01/18/2005 7:20:09 AM PST by redgolum
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To: ClintonBeGone

This is future disaster. Michael Moore type logic. A dose of victimhood, whining, and red herrings to take attention away from the obvious. This is destroying our country.


16 posted on 01/18/2005 7:20:41 AM PST by tkathy (Ban all religious head garb.)
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To: ClintonBeGone
Yep, we'll always take illegal alien workers before we even think about hiring blacks! This is [B]arbra {S]triesand!!!

Aside from some short term economic gain for certain employers, these illegals represent a tremendous burdon on the system. The illegals take from the system, medical care, education, social benefits, damgage from uninsured accidents and send all surplus back to Mexico. And, in the furure, they will ALL claim unemployment benefits, disability and social security benefits using fake employment records.

We must seal the borders now and begin sending home all the criminals we can catch!

17 posted on 01/18/2005 7:21:16 AM PST by Tacis (Democrats! - When You Need America Blamed Or A Pool Peed In!!)
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To: ClintonBeGone

I DISAGREE! Our town here in the MidWest was flooded by IBP , with these illegals to artificially inflate the supply of labor. The result, thousands of illegals here taking jobs w/o having to pay any taxes. The result. Skyrocketing social service costs, collapsed property values and Americans moving from their place of birth to avoid the chaos.

<<<"It's not jobs Americans don't want to do. These are wages and working conditions Americans don't want to accept," says Ira Melman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, an opponent of lowering the barriers for undocumented workers.

"Why not let the free market determine what wages ought to be instead of flooding the market with low-wage, foreign labor?" he asks. >>>
It's TIME to stem the tide!


18 posted on 01/18/2005 7:21:51 AM PST by Jazzman1
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To: ClintonBeGone
This country continues to be built on the back of hard working, dedicated immigrants.

As the grandson of two legal immigrants and the husband of one, I object to your calling these people "immigrants."

They are illegal aliens and criminals.

They have no permission to be here, their status is in no way permanent, and thus they don't even meet the formal definition of the word "immigrant."

19 posted on 01/18/2005 7:23:54 AM PST by angkor
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"They have no permission to be here, their status is in no way permanent, and thus they don't even meet the formal definition of the word "immigrant.""

Under the Bush plan, they'll all get "guest worker" cards.


20 posted on 01/18/2005 7:24:43 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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