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Posted on 03/27/2006 7:01:54 PM PST by Ladycalif
March 27, 2006 — Much like the day laborers they track, activists in Lake Forest, Calif., start their day before 7 a.m.
Armed with cameras, they are trying to shame employers that pick up illegal immigrants into stopping by posting their photographs on the Web site WeHireAliens.com. They greet employers with signs saying, "Hiring a day laborer? Say cheese!"
Far from the theoretical debates on Capitol Hill, WeHireAliens.com is just one of many loosely affiliated citizens groups working against illegal immigration across the country.
They congregate at day laborer sites from Herndon, Va., to Lake Forest, south of Los Angeles.
One employer, in a pickup truck with two laborers, said he thinks their tactics are "harassment."
"These folks have a right to make a living," he told ABC News.
'People Need Us'
As of Monday, the group had posted 843 companies from coast to coast on its site. They range from major corporations to small-business owners. But the group acknowledged it cannot prove that all day laborers are in the country illegally.
"It's not a perfect system," said Jason Mrochek of WeHireAliens.com. "Just like it's not a perfect system that we have all these illegal aliens running around and no one's doing anything about it."
But one day laborer, Pablo Garcia, said he has the proper papers. "I didn't do anything wrong to anybody," Garcia said. "The people need us and we offer. We are here for work."
The group said it's tough to judge how effective its efforts are. Employers complain about being on the site, but certainly the hiring has not stopped — nor has the tide of illegal immigration.
ABC News' Jake Tapper reported this story for "World News Tonight."
Nobody disputes their right to "make a living", sir, what *is* in dispute, and rightly so, is where...
the infowarrior
The men work, and their wives and girlfriends are on welfare and aid to dependent children, and the whole bunch of them are getting free medical care and other freebies. Cheap labor?? BS!!
There's the bottle, there's what looks like a needle, and down on the right it looks like a rubber. These guys are sure having all kinds of fun at our expense.
These are the guys (plus millions of others like them) that our exalted leader in the White House and his cronies in the Senate want so badly to grant amnesty to...
We have more than enough trash already in this country, and we don't need more dependents. Our "leaders" have failed to lead.
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/media/aztlan.mov
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?page_id=810
BTTT
Somebody's got to clean their toilets.
I bet he has the best papers money can buy!
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Jim's son died at WTC
We need HUGE counter rallies
Looks like the lady in the last picture hired an illegal to help her hold up the sign.
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