Posted on 05/03/2011 2:39:09 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
....leaders must weigh conflicting interests exemplified by the very senators who have tried to shepherd the bill [SB 2040] through the chamber.
Last week, Senate President Mike Haridopolos dropped the bill on Alexander's lap after yanking it from Sen. Anitere Flores, a Miami Republican who had initially put forth the measure. A Cuban-American, she could no longer back it after Haridopolos pushed for a more hard-line stance on cracking down illegal immigration.
Alexander, meanwhile, told reporters late Friday that e-Verify costs his business about $20 per person that doesn't match the database. And, he said, he's short about 100 people to pick a blueberry crop.
"For all the unemployment, there just are not folks who want to come out and pick blueberries," Alexander said, for about $9 an hour.
...."Many of these families have been here for more than a decade on a wink-wink, nudge-nudge basis. I find it morally wrong to mess with their status now."
His concerns echoed those of the state's powerful agricultural industry, which fiercely opposes the bill. So do big business, Disney, law enforcement officials and immigration advocates.
...The advocates also held a news conference featuring the legislative black caucus, NAACP, the AFL-CIO, the National Organization of Women, the Florida Council of Churches and the American Civil Liberties Union, which said it was getting a legal team together with the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center to sue any anti-immigration measure.
But weakening the e-Verify mandate — already only an alternative for employers in the Senate proposal — upsets tea-party types whom Haridopolos, running in a crowded Republican primary for the U.S. Senate, is eager to court. A handful of grass roots conservatives silently walked the halls last week, wearing "Pass e-Verify" stickers.
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“”For all the unemployment, there just are not folks who want to come out and pick blueberries,” Alexander said, for about $9 an hour.”
Chances are he hasn’t even tried.
I find it morally wrong to saddle American taxpayers with the burdens inposed by illegal aliens just so he can get his damned blueberries picked.
People who are drawing unemployment now, but have been gainfully employed most of their lives, don't enter as a factor here. Those who have been milking the system all their lives, able to work but just don't want to, are a factor. They should have been picking the blueberries all along, leaving no incentive for illegals in the first place.
These so called "republican" leaders are destroying any chances we have of maintaining this nation as a republic dedicated to freedom. They are complicit, with the liberal democrats, in turning our Nation into a marxist hellhole. The big agricultural interests are obviously right in there with them, with their short range vision able only to see cheap labor. The selfish bastards are stealing America from our kids and grandkids!
There is alot of RINOs in Florida, it gonna be hard to flush them all out.
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That comment struck me too.
I suggest the good senator set up a school and a clinic at his blueberry farm and..... oh, I guess it's the feds that have passed all the rules allowing "no questions" be asked about citizenship...
A huge mess!
The damned fools can’t see 6 inches past the end of their nose! They aren’t concerned with the long term effects their actions will have on our culture and society.
“”I find it morally wrong to mess with their status now.” ?
And I find it morraly wrong, Mr. Alexander, to pay your salary if you do not do what is required to represent the the PEOPLE’s wishs to crack donw on illegal immigration.
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