NY: Illegal immigrants, Long Islanders clash (Farmingville)

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[chris1]

From 12-19 I worked as a laborer for a fence company mixing cement and digging holes.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I, for one, am tired of it.

You're NOT alone....as you can see. I saw that post a few days ago about the nightmare of your rental property. Incredible..

[oceanview]

Give credit to Steve Levy - the Dem county executive - who is at least doing something about this.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'd suggest you get off the net and start calling local churches. There ARE people there who DO need the money.

Doesn't matter which church, pick one.

[thoughtomator]

Well, real friends help each other out when it's needed... but if it's business-related (as rental properties are), then there are plenty of places to find unskilled labor. How about a college? Electronic market? Phone book? Hire a superintendent if you have a lot of such business? There have got to be places to get that sort of help, even on an ad hoc basis, without resorting to the subsidization of justly illegal activity.

[brianl703]

Temp agencies?

[appalachian_dweller]

>> Well I don't have any friends that I would insult by offering to hire them to do day labor type work. <<

Your friends must be pretty snobby if they would not offer to help you out when you needed it. That's what friends are for.

I've helped by friends take down sheds, fix roofs, remove trees, replace flooring, hang drywall. My only wages - they buy the beer. In return, they've help me fix my truck, move, put up a fences, etc.

That's what friends are for. My friends and I help each other when it's needed. That's what Americans do and that's what made this country strong.

If your friends would help you when you need it they're not very good friends. But then again, you don't sound like someone that deserves true friends.

[appalachian_dweller]

great minds ;-)

[Marauder]

I have never hired an illegal but my neighbor has and I get mad every time he does.

Turn him in; call the state employment agency, the IRS, AND the ICE.

[alisasny]

I would but i have an unlegally zoned apt. and we watch each others backs on that. He has one also.

BTW i am already taxed up the wazoo on this property, our home and one day it will be all ours. We are talking I already pay over 10 k and it could go up even more and that is insane.

[Black Tooth]

That same day, four people demonstrating at a 7-Eleven in support of day laborers were arrested when they surrounded an anti-immigration protester's car and refused to let him out.

Getting brazen

[Black Tooth]

>>The best solution to this problem is for all the "newcomers"
to be moved into the same neighborhoods in which the
members of The Times' editorial board live.<<

And the neighborhoods of those politicians that have all but ignored this ever escalating problem.

[Clemenza]

Alisa, are the illegals spread out all over Nassau County? Or do the powers that be keep them segregated in Hempstead, Roosevelt, & Freeport? Just curious (haven't lived on the Island since 1990, unless you count Brooklyn).

[Osage Orange]

There's a reason for illegal laborers being here, we need the labor.

Rod....I think I understand some of your points. I also believe much of the time you hinge your rebuttal/argument on the sometimes "racist" tone...that comes out in this debate. I don't like that either...but I understand it.

But..( here's the butt-monkey..hehe ) I watched illegal labor nearly take over the dry wall installation business in SoCal. Generally the owner's were American born...mostly Hispanic in origin..but hired illegal alien labor. Same thing happened in some plumbing, concrete finishing, labor intensive jobs...

Those weren't "the job's nobody else wanted".

There's some real hard feelings about that there....and I think this issue isn't going to go away quietly.

FWIW-

[Exton1]

Even this is a lie. Mexico is kicking people out, we are not attracting them. Only 2% of illegals work in agriculture, the rest either don't work or steal jobs Americans do want.

[Black Tooth]

There's some real hard feelings about that there....and I think this issue isn't going to go away quietly.

No it isn't. One can imagine what it will be like by 2008, when there are another 7,000,000 in the country. That's only a few short years away.

[alisasny]

They are still segregated however say you hire someone to do your roof...that guy brings a bunch of Mexicans..and then you can rehire the mexicans to come do some work on their own. That is what my neighbor did. I havent seen it in over a year by me but all the landscapers have a a few Mexicans with them.

WE DO OUR OWN YARD and it looks mighty fine : ))))

[StarFan]

But he said officials on Long Island must realize that the day laborers are here to stay and "there is a need to work together."

In short, to hell with the law!

FYI Lisa. If LI succeeds in getting rid of 'em, so might the rest of NY.

[Clemenza]

Don't have a yard, just a narrow balcony where I wave hello to my neighbors across the way.

[Wurlitzer]

I just don't understand this! One of the very few things the federal government is supposed to do is protect our borders. They don't and we keep sending them our money.

The feds violate the 4th amendment for the average US citizen but don't dare profile based upon 30+ years of terrorism yet we keep sending them our money.

The USSC says private property can be transfered to another private developer if it will generate more revenue yet we keep sending them our money.

We no longer have a functioning 1st amendment because anything which may offend some defective low life spawn it is hate speech even if it is true yet we still send them our money.

If anyone is still reading this, where will we ever draw the line on this dysfunctional US government? If you wait until there is no more 2nd amendment it will be too late.