Mexican-American fights illegal immigration

Intl Herald Tribune via New York Times ^ | 5/31/2005 | Timothy Egan

[janetgreen]

Wow! Finding an honest politician these days is like finding a needle in a haystack. I like this guy!

[JustAnAmerican]

And still Bush & Co. sit on their collective arses not giving a rats arse about what these Illegals are doing to our country. Bush knows what's going on, that old crap about him not understanding the danger is just that. But he sure has enough balls to give our money away to terrorists and pay for Illegal's care.

Maybe he should start caring about Americans first instead of non-Americans. And here I always thought that was the Presidents duty, obviously this one thinks otherwise.

[DumpsterDiver]

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[4.1O dana super trac pak]

His name has come up a few times on FR.

He was quite vocal during the illegal alien bus ride. (I forget what they called that farce.)

[wyattearp]

Many farmers and construction contractors in Idaho - closer to Canada than Mexico - say they could not survive without the pool of workers from Mexico.

I used to work in construction, mostly siding. I got out of it many years ago. The price contractors will pay per foot of siding applied hasn't changed in 30 years because of illegal workers. This isn't a "job that nobody else wants"; it is a job that nobody else can afford to take, because illegal workers have pushed legal workers out.

Punish the businesses hiring illegal aliens, and deport the illegals!

[NRA2BFree]

How refreshing to have an intelligent Politician, who 'gets it.' I like him sending a bill to Fox. LOL He's OK in my books.

[mc6809e]

So how do you feel about companies that hire "scabs" during strikes?

You're strategy to keep wages up is the same as that of a union.

[Ramonan]

Noe, here is a man I would contribute to.

[wyattearp]

So how do you feel about companies that hire "scabs" during strikes?

You're strategy to keep wages up is the same as that of a union.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Companies that hire "scabs" during strikes are not hiring illegal aliens to keep wages down. They are hiring legal workers to keep the company running during the strike. That was a horrible analogy.

The fact of the matter is that wages in the construction industry have not kept pace with inflation. If you are working for a non-union siding contractor, the wages have not changed in 30+ years. My Dad (uncle, cousins, etc) made a good living in construction in the 60s and early 70s. $25,000 a year in 1970 was good money, and you could feed a family on it. $25,000 now is not the same thing as it was then.

The illegals work on the houses, and they and their families live and sleep in them while they are under construction. They literally "set up camp" in unfinished houses as they work on them. That is the only way to live on those kinds of wages. They are literally "migrant workers", and they are in this country illegally. Citizens cannot live and work under those conditions. The state would take your kids if they found out that you were living like that.

Again: these are not jobs that nobody else will do. These are jobs where the wages are being kept at an impossibly low level, too low for a legal citizen to work, specifically because illegals are undercutting the wages by living in thirld-world conditions. If there were no illegal aliens in this country, people could afford to work in construction.

[sirthomasthemore]

Only the current GOP could take a winner of an issue, a perfectly reasonable application of law in deporting illegals, and transform it into a loser- i.e., illegal immigration is desirable because its pro business.

I know this may seem a non-sequitur, but it's not. We have to defeat Pat Dewine HUGE- and send a message to our Leaders, that we followers are way ahead of them.

[jocon307]

"I like this guy!"

Me too! Sounds like he didn't come here to be a Mexican!

[NewRomeTacitus]

He was quite vocal during the illegal alien bus ride. (I forget what they called that farce.)

That was the ANSWER & MoveOn-sponsored "Freedom Ride", muchacho! It was mucho horrible. Go down to post #12 in the following thread because my initial formatting sucked:

Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride Rally in Nashville

[janetgreen]

I like him sending a bill to Fox

The City of Anaheim, California sent Fox a bill too, but of course never heard a word or received a centavo from him. The Mexican government are deadbeats who don't pay their bills because they know that we have a President who will force us to pay them.

[cyborg]

You said it.

[mmercier]

That about sums the situation up.

Don't argue with people over it anymore though, as they want their roof done on the cheep and could care less if it is done by an eight year old of indeterminate origin.

I am a union carpenter, illegals living 20 to a room are eating our lunch here in Massachusetts. I just quit nonunion job because I would not roof with a 12 year old.

No one cares, there is no law enforcement possible.

In the future here residential carpenters will have no workers comp, no medical, and no future. Just drop em' off at the ER when injured and let the taxpayers eat the bill. Hell, the employers even deny they know them when they call from the police station after being taken in for driving unlicensed and uninsured.

I'm out of this business soon enough.

[Delphinium]

He won Canyon County by 92% of the vote. Now he is running for Congress.

[Delphinium]

Contribute here:

http://vasquezforidaho.org/

[Bernard Marx]

Canyon County had a serious illegals problem when I left that part of Idaho in the early 80s. I don't know anything about this guy except what I read in the papers, but I love his idea of using the RICO statutes against people who employ illegals. I hope the idea catches on.

[janetgreen]

I love his idea of using the RICO statutes against people who employ illegals

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