Posted on 08/25/2005 5:41:39 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
'Border Watch' Confronts Latino Day Laborers
A group that claims to help the U.S. Border Patrol is bringing controversy to Dallas after launching "an operation" targeting day laborers.
The group called "Border Watch" picked a spot on Park Lane, near Greenville, early Thursday morning because it is popular with Latino day laborers hoping to get picked up for work.
The workers were angry with group members for passing out fliers warning employers that hiring illegal immigrants is a federal crime.
Border Watch members also carried video cameras, which were used to record license plates and people, according to the fliers.
However, a Border Watch spokesman denied that.
"If something should go wrong, the video camera protects all the honest people," Curtis Collier said.
Collier said the group is not opposed to Latino people, but rather immigration.
"What we basically need to do is get people to enter our country legally so we can rule out that criminal element and the terrorist element," he said.
Immigration attorney John Wheat Gibson said the fliers encourage discrimination, and that employers have to ask only for simple documentation to comply with the law.
"And furthermore, if it's phony, it's not the employer's job to go and have a laboratory analyze it and find out," Gibson said.
Gibson said it is against the law to knowingly hire illegal workers, but also illegal to refuse to hire Spanish-speaking Latinos.
Hire me to protest illegal aliens at illegal alien day laborer centers. I will also bring hookers with me, who are doing work that many citizens will not do here.
So is it illegal to hire Spanish-speaking illegals? Or if they don't speak Spanish you can refuse to hire them? Is ambiguity the main problem here, or is it something else?
I don't see the 'controversy.' - Is there an official pro-crime constituency?
Anyone can tell a genuine document from a fake. This is a copout.
They should show up on this thread any minute now.
Big problem right there. That's what needs to be taken care of. That's far more urgent than passing new laws against hiring illegals.
Bounty!
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Support our Minutemen Patriots!
Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!
This program needs to be expanded to every city.
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