Posted on 05/22/2005 7:10:30 AM PDT by mlc9852
He came to put his backbone into the construction boom. He built roofs over breezy apartments and stately million-dollar homes.
Yet he lives in Lake Worth, in a dilapidated trailer with eight other immigrants. Water-stained carpets cover the floor, and the smell of latrines hangs in the humidity. He has affixed a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the wall with construction tape.
"We don't come here to live in luxury," said the heavyset Mexican, who requested anonymity because of his illegal immigration status. "We come to send money home."
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Just wanted to hear people's opinions.
All I needed to know.
How sad. If he were legal and not already freeloading on our taxes, he would have the benefits of a citizen. Insurance policies don't pay on injuries which occur during the commission of a felony either.
This story clearly demonstrates how many laws are being broken due to our non-existant immigration situation. It shows how the illegal laborers are harmed as well.
I will add that if this man has provided his parents with a house and his sister with tuition, maybe he has done enough for them and it is time for them to do something for him.
CRIMINAL INVADERS should have only one right.
The right to return to their turd world countries.
How difficult is it for a Mexican to enter the country legally?
There you go !
Amazing. Not a single word on the employer's responsibility. These construction outfits knowingly hire illegals so they can bypass paying social security, workman's comp, and other benefits. Then they kick them to the curb when they break, and who do the lawyers (and bleeding hearts) blame? The government for not picking up the employer's responsibility, even though he blatantly broke the law by hiring illegals. Friggin' amazing. The government needs to start cracking down hard on employers that hire illegals. They can start by providing medical services to injured illegals and billing the employer for it.
Well its not surprizing that when you are actively breaking the law, you are in association with others who are breaking the law. What do they expect? the old cliche' which goes "if you can't do the time don't do the crime" exists for a reason.
The people who employed him were also law breakers, does anyone really think they will now step up and give these illegal aliens a paper trail.
While its a shame the guy got hurt, but if it had happened in his own country he would be in the same situation there is no workers comp in Mexico. At least he's made the money he has.
el tuffo shito.
If the "heavyset(fat)Mexican" had applied for and was granted a green card, he would not be in the prediciment he is in.....No?..
Sorry Ms.Morris, you will get no sympathy from B.O.
I have no idea. Maybe someone out there knows. I want to know why employers are prosecuted? That seems to me would go a long way towards solving the problem.
Maybe the newspaper article will drum up enough sympathy to get him a ticket home. Three years of sending $450.00 home each month should have built up some credit.
I couldn't agree more. Go after the employers. No jobs for illegals - word gets around - and they either come here legal or they don't come.
While what you say is legitimate do you really think it stops there?
The last time you had your house roofed did you ask the roofing company that gave the quote if they employed illegal aliens? Or did you just go with the lowest price?
Roofing companies who don't hire cheap labor cease to exist, its as simple as that.
Start fining roofing companies (and any other employer) that break the law by hiring illegals and see how quickly the situation changes. If it's all about cheap labor then why not hire children? Oh, yeah--it's illegal. Not only that, but the government actually enforces that law, so employers actually abide by it.
And how can they send billions back to Mexico? Because their expenses are born by the taxpayer and the US socialist programs. Wealth is the lifeblood of a nation. It is produced by the body of the people. These vampiers suck it off into a corrupt country that has already drained its own people dry. 
How many American sons would slip illegally into a foreign country and live in squalor to send money home to their families?
Many an American son and daughter are shedding their blood in a far away, inhospitable land, along with some "illegal" brothers in arms.
I believe the now St. Padre Pio's father came to America, probably legally, to send money home to his poor family back in Italy.
Just to put things into a different perspective, not necessarily the right one, but something to consider.
"We come to send money home."
Does anyone have the annual figure of money paid out of our economy and put into Mexico, South America? I thought it was in the billions.
Curious.
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