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Door slams on foreign landscape workers
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 4-21-2005 | ART GOLAB

Posted on 04/21/2005 3:04:26 PM PDT by Prince Charles

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To: ABN 505
Even just a few years ago around here all the landscaping jobs were done by high school and college kids now all those jobs are taken by immigrants . Now what do they do for summer work? Not much left for them. I hate that LINE that Bush is spouting about Immigrants doing work Americans don't want to do, THAT IS ABSOLUTE B.S.

Are you calling for a form of right wing affirmative action?

And by the way how do you know that high school and college students are not getting jobs? It's a nice line to spout, but isn't true.

21 posted on 04/21/2005 4:00:46 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Yo-Yo
What is cheap?

Cheap that she isn't paying for their medical bills and/or insurance but the taxpayer's will when one of her "legal immigrants" needs a doctor. They will head for the emergency room where the taxpayer's will be forced to pay the tab. Cheap when one of her "legal immigrants" needs government benefits, housing, etc. because they aren't making enough to live in this country. The taxpayer will pick up that tab also. Cheap for her. Not so cheap for the American people.

22 posted on 04/21/2005 4:05:16 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Dane

Hiring high schoolers is a fantasy world that doesn't exist anymore. They do NOT want to work. The mexicans in our area work very hard and do an excellent job. If a high schooler came and asked for work, I would hire them. But guess what, they don't. The mexicans don't gripe, bitch, and moan either. They pay cash for everything. Maybe we americans should wake up and learn multiple languages.


23 posted on 04/21/2005 4:07:03 PM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors. Don't run with rocks.)
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To: muawiyah
If you fertilize it, it will grow.

Pave it all and let it go.

24 posted on 04/21/2005 4:09:06 PM PDT by humblegunner (We ain't subject to terror, but it's unwise to irritate us.)
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To: Prince Charles
Bottom line: this is a "zero value added" occupation. If we can't find Americans to wash the cars, be a nanny, mow the lawns, clean the pools because folks are not willing to pay the going rate, let those tasks remain undone.

The world won't end if the house windows are dirty. The rest of us should not have to accomodate the lazy and the niggardly...

25 posted on 04/21/2005 4:10:17 PM PDT by Meldrim
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To: Meldrim

You must be one of those Boston people who refused to hire Irish.


26 posted on 04/21/2005 4:14:00 PM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors. Don't run with rocks.)
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To: Who dat?

Aw crap. When I was 12, I mowed ten yards a week (5$ to mow and 2$ to edge) and never reported it to the IRS! I'm going to lose my home now aren't I?! /sarcasm


27 posted on 04/21/2005 4:14:30 PM PDT by Normal4me
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To: kcvl
"She just wants the AMERICAN PEOPLE to subsidize her employees with government benefits she isn't willing to pay."

Bingo. However, you should have ended it: "...she isn't willing to pay for jobs that don't really need to be done."

Clean pools and mowed lawns are nice, but not at the expense of a balkanized, bilingual nation.

28 posted on 04/21/2005 4:15:02 PM PDT by Meldrim
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To: Meldrim

The US is virtually the only country that supposedly speaks one language. I think we're the one's missing out. English may be the universal language but why not learn another?
Where is the moderator, I thought racism wasn't allowed here. No one has yet mentioned the inner city blighters that stay here and bemoan their race history.
Atleast the mexicans go back home 'a 1000 miles away'!


29 posted on 04/21/2005 4:18:14 PM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors. Don't run with rocks.)
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To: Mrs. Shawnlaw
I think the Irish were here legally, weren't they? Unlike most of the folks from south of Texas, they were screened for diseases and background and many were sent home.

I am an American and I normally view the "hyphens" the same way that Teddy Roosevelt did. I am one of those folks who'd do it myself or it would not get done.

30 posted on 04/21/2005 4:19:04 PM PDT by Meldrim
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To: Prince Charles

Here in Florida, most of the landscapers don't speak English.


31 posted on 04/21/2005 4:20:55 PM PDT by Pillows
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To: Meldrim

It doesn't matter that the Irish were here legally or not. My point is great discrimination, hatefulness, spite, ignorance and general disdain. If someone wants the work, wants to raise their family, practices their faith, what the hell is wrong with them getting jobs here.

I used to be against illegal immigration until a certain race closed down a major highway here TWICE demanding to be GIVEN jobs and contracts.
The mexicans join hands and shut down highways getting run over trying to run, dragging their family, into this great nation in the first place.


32 posted on 04/21/2005 4:23:25 PM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors. Don't run with rocks.)
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To: Meldrim
I think the Irish were here legally, weren't they? Unlike most of the folks from south of Texas, they were screened for diseases and background and many were sent home.

Huh, and they still had to face the signs of "Irish need not apply".

33 posted on 04/21/2005 4:25:24 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Dane
"It's right wing affirmative action."

As part of our in-house soft-on-illegals lobby (SOILs), I don't think you're credible on right wing anything because you sure aren't a conservative. Feel free, though, to tell us all about what's going on among the GOP Big Tent RINOs/liberals/moderates. You might know something about that.

34 posted on 04/21/2005 4:26:30 PM PDT by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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To: kcvl

And this is different from Americans who are on welfare or unemployment how?


35 posted on 04/21/2005 4:27:15 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Czar
As part of our in-house soft-on-illegals lobby (SOILs), I don't think you're credible on right wing anything because you sure aren't a conservative. Feel free, though, to tell us all about what's going on among the GOP Big Tent RINOs/liberals/moderates. You might know something about that

Huh it wasn't my hero( but czar's hero), tom tancredo who said to the press that Tom Delay should step down.

36 posted on 04/21/2005 4:28:52 PM PDT by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Prince Charles
This is confusing.

Everyone at FR says that are opposed only to illegal workers.

Now here is a story about legal guest workers and everyone seems to be opposed to them also.

37 posted on 04/21/2005 4:32:54 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Ben Ficklin

Count me out and read my posts, I am most definitely NOT against mexican workers. The article was about issuing worker visas. Of course the South ate up the quota and since this article is out of Illinois I imagine the real problem for them is South of the (MasonDixon) Border.


38 posted on 04/21/2005 4:41:30 PM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors. Don't run with rocks.)
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To: Prince Charles

Well, y'see, I've got this specially landscaped lawn composed of
light brown Hispanic grass... and NOBODY will agree to cut it !!!

It's now about 3 feet high... waving insolently in the sunlight...
hissing as the wind blows, "We don't need no steeeeeenkin'
Gringo lawn mower" !!! ;-))


39 posted on 04/21/2005 4:45:53 PM PDT by GeekDejure ( LOL = Liberals Obey Lucifer !!! -- Impeach Greer !!!.)
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To: Mrs. Shawnlaw; Meldrim; Travis McGee; wardaddy; Boot Hill; Dead Corpse; janetgreen; shellshocked; ..
"English may be the universal language but why not learn another?"

Those of us who may want to learn a second language can do so easily enough. The point here is that Americans should not be forced into learning spanish merely to survive in the midst of the flood of illegal aliens now present in this country thanks to the refusal of the federal government to enforce our immigration laws.

"Where is the moderator, I thought racism wasn't allowed here."

Many of us, I think most of us, believe in American sovereignty, protected borders and the preservation of American culture, customs and language. That doesn't make us racists although there is a small minority of illegal immigration enthusiasts around here which are fond of calling us racists. We make no apologies for placing America first and opposing the enablers and apologists for illegal aliens. You may want to rethink your careless use of the word racism lest you find yourself grouped with the nasty little pack of race baiters to which I referred earlier.

40 posted on 04/21/2005 4:46:25 PM PDT by Czar (StillFedUptotheTeeth@Washington)
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