Posted on 05/30/2005 2:31:22 PM PDT by 4.1O dana super trac pak
To hear people who call into Idaho's leading conservative Talk radio station, Roberto Vasquez is a hero: one of the few politicians to tell it straight.
Vasquez, 55, a Republican county commissioner and Mexican-American in part of the country where hispanics are ascendant, has been on a crusade against illegal immigration - what he calls an "imminent invasion" from south of the border.
Vasquez has tried to get Canyon County declared a disaster area because of the strain from illegal immigrants. He has also sent a bill to the Mexican government for more than $2 million, that is the cost, he said, of Mexicans who are in the county illegally.
Vasquez says the newcomers overwhelm public services, bring gang violence and drugs, spread diseases like tuberculosis, and insist on rights that should not be granted to noncitizens.
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Wow! Finding an honest politician these days is like finding a needle in a haystack. I like this guy!
Maybe he should start caring about Americans first instead of non-Americans. And here I always thought that was the Presidents duty, obviously this one thinks otherwise.
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He was quite vocal during the illegal alien bus ride. (I forget what they called that farce.)
I used to work in construction, mostly siding. I got out of it many years ago. The price contractors will pay per foot of siding applied hasn't changed in 30 years because of illegal workers. This isn't a "job that nobody else wants"; it is a job that nobody else can afford to take, because illegal workers have pushed legal workers out.
Punish the businesses hiring illegal aliens, and deport the illegals!
How refreshing to have an intelligent Politician, who 'gets it.' I like him sending a bill to Fox. LOL He's OK in my books.
Noe, here is a man I would contribute to.
You're strategy to keep wages up is the same as that of a union.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Companies that hire "scabs" during strikes are not hiring illegal aliens to keep wages down. They are hiring legal workers to keep the company running during the strike. That was a horrible analogy.
The fact of the matter is that wages in the construction industry have not kept pace with inflation. If you are working for a non-union siding contractor, the wages have not changed in 30+ years. My Dad (uncle, cousins, etc) made a good living in construction in the 60s and early 70s. $25,000 a year in 1970 was good money, and you could feed a family on it. $25,000 now is not the same thing as it was then.
The illegals work on the houses, and they and their families live and sleep in them while they are under construction. They literally "set up camp" in unfinished houses as they work on them. That is the only way to live on those kinds of wages. They are literally "migrant workers", and they are in this country illegally. Citizens cannot live and work under those conditions. The state would take your kids if they found out that you were living like that.
Again: these are not jobs that nobody else will do. These are jobs where the wages are being kept at an impossibly low level, too low for a legal citizen to work, specifically because illegals are undercutting the wages by living in thirld-world conditions. If there were no illegal aliens in this country, people could afford to work in construction.
"I like this guy!"
Me too! Sounds like he didn't come here to be a Mexican!
That was the ANSWER & MoveOn-sponsored "Freedom Ride", muchacho! It was mucho horrible. Go down to post #12 in the following thread because my initial formatting sucked:
The City of Anaheim, California sent Fox a bill too, but of course never heard a word or received a centavo from him. The Mexican government are deadbeats who don't pay their bills because they know that we have a President who will force us to pay them.
You said it.
He won Canyon County by 92% of the vote. Now he is running for Congress.
Canyon County had a serious illegals problem when I left that part of Idaho in the early 80s. I don't know anything about this guy except what I read in the papers, but I love his idea of using the RICO statutes against people who employ illegals. I hope the idea catches on.
BTTT
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