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Jeff Bezos’ WaPo: ICE Raids Are ‘Cruel,’ Businesses Need Illegal Alien Workers
Breitbart ^ | 12 Aug 2019 | John Binder

Posted on 08/13/2019 6:08:29 AM PDT by PapaBear3625

The Washington Post, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, who is also the CEO of Amazon, released an editorial this week blasting the enforcement of national immigration law as “cruel” and said U.S. businesses should not be deprived of employing illegal alien workers.

In an editorial in the Washington Post, the editors wrote that the recent raids on seven Mississippi food processing plants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were “cruel” and “pointless” despite arresting and identifying 680 illegal workers, including more than 200 who had previous criminal records. About 300 of the illegal workers arrested were released that same day on “humanitarian grounds.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: District of Columbia; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: aliens; amazon; bezos; borders; districtofcolumbia; ice; illegalaliens; jeffbezos; mississippi; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: TigersEye

I would have no issues with that if the businesses using them would do the responsible thing and sponsor these illegals officially, help them get their green cards and to ensure that their “help” will not be a public burden and will make sure proper taxes, workmans’ comp, and disability insurances were withheld and paid for each of their “employees”.


41 posted on 08/13/2019 1:50:04 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: New Jersey Realist

I think so. It does not vary state to state, does it? Not that California cares.


42 posted on 08/13/2019 1:52:03 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: mdmathis6

I have plenty of issues with that idea.


43 posted on 08/13/2019 2:04:50 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye

Well I certainly don’t want Americans displaced. I was thinking about Trumps new proposed rules cutting back green cards and entry into the US based on the predictions that some would be immigrants will be public users of welfare benefits and who won’t be self sufficient.

Businesses who wish to use illegals need to be forced to pay American wages and do things that they would do for any American worker. It would put to the real test whether or not Americans could not be found to do the work that the illegal aliens would be willing to do. If such Americans could not be found with the level playing fields fully enforced...then that is one thing...but no way should these greedy businesses get away with essentially slave labor while callously blaming “lazy Americans” for not wanting to work!

Does that clarify my position any better?....if those greedy bastards want to gaslight hard working Americans, then let’s give it back to them real hard to see just how much they love the “poor, tired, yearning to be free” illegals by forcing them to sponsor these illegals and forcing them to pay these illegals what the American prevailing wages and benefits would be!


44 posted on 08/13/2019 2:24:13 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: PapaBear3625

Bezos works his employees like dogs. He is an ass.


45 posted on 08/13/2019 2:25:45 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Bezos supports slavery. He likes his cheap labor.


46 posted on 08/13/2019 2:26:07 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Bezos supports slavery. He likes his cheap labor.


47 posted on 08/13/2019 2:26:07 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: mdmathis6

I understood your position before.


48 posted on 08/13/2019 2:31:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Ethical businesses need law-abiding workers.

Lie about one thing, lie about all things.

-PJ

49 posted on 08/13/2019 2:34:29 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I know, however, it’s never enough.


50 posted on 08/13/2019 3:06:50 PM PDT by ivory49
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To: PapaBear3625
... U.S. businesses should not be deprived of employing illegal alien workers.

WHAT??!!??


51 posted on 08/13/2019 8:01:49 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks PapaBear3625.

H1B Visa shilling by the WashComPost.


52 posted on 08/13/2019 10:58:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Every. Single. Time. I call Customer Service for any tech company, I must struggle to understand the heavily accented English of some call-center worker in Indonesia or the Philippines.

Every time I wonder, why aren’t these call centers located in the US & employing US citizens?

We give American jobs AND welfare benefits to illegals who walk across the border, AND we send American jobs overseas to foreign nationals.

America’s poor & minorities are forced to the back of the line-— every time.


53 posted on 08/18/2019 10:15:06 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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To: PapaBear3625

A rudimentary parse of Bezos’ statement reveals his true motivations.
He’s not in favor of simplifying immigration law to make it easier for “refugees” to achieve US citizenship status.
Oh no.

He wants illegal aliens to REMAIN illegal, i.e. as non-citizens in the shadows, without documentation.

This makes it easier for Bezos to exploit them & enrich himself even more. Pay them substandard wages, forced unpaid overtime, no benefits.

What they gonna do? Complain?

Plus, an army of illegal employees also helps suppress the wages of the citizen employees who are forced to compete with off-the-books illegals.


54 posted on 08/18/2019 10:29:48 AM PDT by mumblypeg
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