Posted on 04/09/2006 4:49:32 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Yeah...I heard somewhere, I think it was Hugh Hewitt's show last night...that only 19 House Republicans voted AGAINST that legislation to regulate yet more speech...
only 19...pitiful.
Well, you have totally convinced me that that book is a MUST READ.....
I can see where those 3 forms of jihad are planned for the US...and we need to be prepared...by KNOWLEDGE.
Thanks for that most revealing post...I know I can count on you..and you know me very well.
Excellent point!
Oh they were so happy when I finally took my daughter out of that school.
Thank you so much for posting the names and authors of some MUST READ books...
Construction and hospitality. Think about what good jobs construction used to be
Cong Sensenbrenner noted in a town hall meeting that 25-30% of inmates in Los Angeles County Jails are illegal aliens costing the county nearly half a billion dollars. That's a very real cost of having people who don't respect our laws coming across the border.
Police commanders may not want to discuss, much less respond to, the illegal-alien crisis, but its magnitude for law enforcement is startling. Some examples:
• In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) are for illegal aliens.
• A confidential California Department of Justice study reported in 1995 that 60 percent of the 20,000-strong 18th Street Gang in southern California is illegal; police officers say the proportion is actually much greater. The bloody gang collaborates with the Mexican Mafia, the dominant force in California prisons, on complex drug-distribution schemes, extortion, and drive-by assassinations, and commits an assault or robbery every day in L.A. County. The gang has grown dramatically over the last two decades by recruiting recently arrived youngsters, most of them illegal, from Central America and Mexico.
• The leadership of the Columbia Lil’ Cycos gang, which uses murder and racketeering to control the drug market around L.A.’s MacArthur Park, was about 60 percent illegal in 2002, says former assistant U.S. attorney Luis Li. Francisco Martinez, a Mexican Mafia member and an illegal alien, controlled the gang from prison, while serving time for felonious reentry following deportation.
I agree with many of your posts, but you are being to pollyannish on this one.
Thank you, Txsleuth. It is I who have been finding your posts quite informative and especially when I can't or won't turn into the Senate coverage, I can just check your posts for a quick scan of what is going on. Thankfully they are now on a 2 week vacation which suits me just fine since that is the only time they aren't making trouble. LOL
Talk with you tomorrow.
And how much is the lettuce going to cost at the grocery store after being picked by a worker making $132,000 a year?
Oh, come on - the sky won't fall. Read today's headlines, they are inventing robots to harvest agricultural products. When wages rise (from their currently artificially depressed levels) automation will be more affordable.
We try to convince the political elites that there is a political price to pay if we don't secure our borders and implement real immigration reform. As it now stands, the status quo is the politically expedient course of action.
do you get it passed into law?
See above.
They are working minimum wage "at jobs no American will do (lie)". Their impact on SSI taxes is not as large as you say.
That's because our government has grown so big and THEY have passed so many laws that you can't go entire day without breaking one. Now, illegal to smoke in a restaurant, next illegal to smoke in any public place...
We respected laws a lot more before there were so many of them, but see my post on illegal immigrant crime.
The market wants the supply of cheap labor.
The government of Mexico is dumping this labor over the border in the interest of income and stilling internal opposition. Not a US market intervention....
Maybe not where you're from.
Americans are biologically capable. I know a few who would take McCain up on that offer. Most have decent English skills, to-boot.
Does anyone think that these Mexicans are picking vegetables because they like fresh air and sunshine? The illegals do it because they are "illegal", as soon as someone makes them legal they will be too good also, and we will need a new bunch of illegals.
Not anywhere near that severe. Labor is only about 20% of the overall cost-of-production. Illegal aliens make-up roughly one-quarter of the workforce in Agriculture. If the hourly cost of labor quintupled to $25/hr as a result of labor-law enforcement, the total cost of production would only rise 10%. Given a 15% net-net, the price of lettuce would rise roughly 15% over current prices to make up for increased labor cost.
Given that a head of lettuce currently goes for about $1.25, the resulting head of lettuce produced by legal means would go for $1.50-ish.
"And how much is the lettuce going to cost at the grocery store after being picked by a worker making $132,000 a year?"
Please see my last post as to cost of lettuce picked by contractors making an annual rate of about 50K.
"The illegal immigrant that you call 'exploited' is making 500 to 700% more money in the U.S. then they would be making in Mexico."
Average Per Capita Wage in Mexico is approximately $6,000/yr. Average wage earned by an illegal in the US is approximately $10,000/yr.
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