Posted on 03/31/2006 11:36:38 AM PST by doug from upland
A Body Blow To Illegal Labor? Court rulings and legislation could change the game for companies such as Mohawk It could soon be high noon in Calhoun. The town of 13,000 tucked away in the northwest corner of Georgia has been reshaped during the past decade by a huge influx of Latinos. The big draw: jobs at Mohawk Industries Inc. (MHK ), the town's largest employer. The $6.6 billion carpet maker employs 32,000 workers in all, 4,000 of them in Calhoun and surrounding Gordon County. Once staffed largely by whites, Mohawk today has a workforce made up substantially of immigrants from Mexico and other Latin American countries. The lure of $7-an-hour work has helped lift Hispanics to 12% of Gordon's population today, up from less than 1% in 1990.
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JustPiper.......I think what I'll do is use the article that I had attached to my post and start a thread with it. What surprises me is if you read back through THIS thread, even though the discussion is on RICO/illegal immigration, no one even hinted at the conculsion your friend did, though I think most of us were questioning the timing of bringing up the issue and the rush to fix the problem....no one connected the dots.
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Want to be on the front lines of the Illegal Immigration?
You might to view this: Save Our State
http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/
Sunday May 21, downtown LA rally against Illegal Immigration
http://www.saveourstate.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=11168&st=40&#entry108817
Not a million dollar house, but it's happening on my street.
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