Posted on 08/28/2005 8:17:20 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
Flake is going to be unemployed. He has really misread the situation. This isn't his trusty old farmhand that's coming in here lately, this is criminal gangs who are raping and murdering. This is illegals completely taking over school districts and hospital emergency rooms. This is TB and other diseases long thought stamped out that are suddenly breaking out all over.
In the South there was a disconnect between federal revenue officers who tried to bust illegal alcohol stills and local citizens who benefited from those stills.
I understand that in some counties in California where marijuana growing is a significant percent of their income there is a disconnect between the DEA and the local citizens.
When you start closing down companies that are major employers in a community you are going to have a disconnect. Congressmen will not let it go on for long.
Before it will be politically possible to close down businesses for hiring illegal employees you must first provide a way for them to replace those illegal ones with legal ones. That's called a guest worker program.
For you, this is all about cheap weed and booze, isn't it?
Click the S.O. 40 link in #18.
Hope so since he has obviously decided to represent everyone else in the world instead of his constituents.
What universe are you living in, the same one as these politicians like Flake? People all across this country want the laws against illegal aliens enforced, it's only a small minority of cheap labor pimps that prefer to keep the status quo.
Well, look what rose up to play "Illegal Infiltrator Whack-A-Mole"...
Looks like a job for...
"The FreeRepublic OBL Sock-Puppet *PING* List!"
Yeah, bayou...it's morons like YOU and the OBL Business Idiots that LOVE them some cheap lettuce and ILLEGAL INFILTRATORS to do their gardening and Toilet-Cleaning!
The REAL public...you know, the ones who PAY THE DAMN TAXES...they want the BORDERS SEALED to ILLEGAL INFILTRATORS...they want to stop ILLEGALS from using Public services that they do not pay for, but the rest of us get whacked with higher taxes to cover these losses...they want ILLEGALS to NOT get more benefits and PRIVILEDGES than we who actually live here LEGALLY!
But I'm sure your Fabric-Softener addled mind will immediately start the siren's call of the psycotropic kaleidoscope protest of "RACISM" that you and all your OBL sock-puppet pals rely on when anyone calls for the end to ILLEGAL INFILTRATION...you can't help it...it's your Fabric Softener addicted brain...personally I blame "Snuggles" for your addiction...that and your desire to sell out Americans for cheap lettuce.
We need both. No problem is solved simply at the demand end.
They may want them enforced in other people's towns, but they don't want the employers in their own towns shut down.You don't see any Governors or Mayors calling for the federal government to come to their states and towns and shut down employers.
Of course not, they know who butters their bread, they're called big corporations. Those interests are the complete opposite of the vast majority of citizens who want the laws upheld.
They have enforced it strictly but only in the SW and mostly in rural areas. The ones who got past the border states have been left alone.
Bull!
Since the mid-1980s, it has tried to discourage illegal immigrants by building fences, fining employers and jailing and deporting those found illegally.
Bull!
California broke ground in 1994 when 59 per cent of the state's voters passed Proposition 187, which banned illegal immigrants in the state from receiving public education, non-emergency medical care or any other taxpayer-funded benefits.
Prop. 187 died a swift death.
Have these authors done research into illegal immigration?
No, they are elected by voters and have to respond to the needs of the voters. Why do third party types always pretend that voters don't exist? Well, maybe voters don't exist for third party types.
A good guest worker program which allows them to work but not bring their families, does not allow them to collect unemployment (they have to go home if they lose their job.) they aren't eligible for Earned Income Credit and I could think of a few more restrictions. A good, strictly enforced guest worker program WOULD be good for the US and there are ways to track them if they really want to.
I think 5% unemployment is pretty close to full employment. My son works in construction and his boss is at his wit's end trying to keep workers but it is too easy for those who don't want to work not to we're getting about like Europe. I know around here that any entry level job is almost impossible to fill and we usually have around 30% unemployment because those amnesty seekers settled around here close to the border. I think another amnesty would be a disaster but that's what the Dims are talking about. It is a problem that needs a whole lot less hysteria and politicking and a lot more calm reasoning. They need to consider the consequences thoroughly.
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