Posted on 03/10/2009 1:47:23 PM PDT by Scourge of God
There are a couple of interesting articles in the news about illegal immigration today. Let's take a look at this one.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2009/03/08/a1a_homedepot_0309.html?imw=Y
Apparently mobs of 'day laborers' (euphemism for illegal alien) are descending on Home Depot customers as they attempt to go shopping. Naturally enough, the shoppers find this intimidating, if not frightening. With the typical corporate courage so common among businesses today, Home Depot's reply is basically 'this isn't our problem'.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
These "day laborers" are a for hire company. Home Depot clearly doesn't mind if another company does business on their property. How quickly will Home Depot call the cops on me for setting up a snow cone stand in their parking lot?
Just as soon as you are a *ahem* 'protected class' of some sort. If you have any sort of European heritage, you have lesser civil rights than do these non-citizens.
Ping!
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