Posted on 04/15/2006 11:15:11 AM PDT by Flavius
We have every legitimate reason to invade Mexico and overthrow that corrupt, racist government.
We just paid my friend's husband to do remodeling work for us. He is in school full-time and having a hard time finding part-time work (but is very good at construction and auto work.) He gave us a great rate (more than I've heard dayworkers charge, but still affordable.) His work is guaranteed, and we knew that he wasn't going to rob, rape, or murder us. My parents hired him after he was done at our house.
Then you know exactly what I am talking about. As does your friend and her husband.
My husband busted up about 500 square feet of "lawn" today, land that hasn't been tilled in 10+ years...........3 people stopped looking for work - not a one of them with a foreign accent. I expect similar tomorrow and Monday when I get out there to "fine tune" it and start planting strawberries. (I'd be out there right now, but it's getting ready to start raining and so I'm dealing with dinner.)
Area firm hiring 300-350 Mexican welders, fitters
By Jerry Jordan
Senior Staff WriterBuna-based Southeast Texas Industrial Inc. (STI) has implemented a plan to bring in more than 300 Mexicans from across the border to take away jobs that could go to welders, pipe fitters and other laborers in Southeast Texas. But, its actions have now spawned a state investigation into whether their advertise-ments for workers was mis-leading.
State Rep. Joe Deshotel, D-Beaumont, said he is con-cerned about what he termed discrepancies in STI’s adver-tisements and is requesting a state investigation by the Texas Workforce Commission be conducted before any for-eign workers are permitted to come into Southeast Texas.
A company representative said STI had tried to hire locally but couldn’t get any-one to apply for its jobs, which he said were starting at more than $10 an hour, with craftsman making anywhere from, “$15 to $20 an hour.”
“We got contacts and used every effort we could to hire locally,” said W.C. Cole, busi-ness development manager for STI, who spoke with The Examiner Tuesday. “We advertised in the Beaumont Enterprise, The Port Arthur News, Houston Chronicle and in Corpus Christi, Dallas, Oklahoma, Florida, Arizona ….
We have an extreme short-age of craftsmen along the Gulf Coast. We talked to headhunters and placement agencies. And, despite what you may have heard, what we are doing is legal.
“We have a bunch of peo-ple sitting in Monterrey (Mexico) waiting so that as soon as they clear immigra-tion and get their green cards, we’ll hire them. We want them here by April 21. I think there are 350 total.”
Despite Cole’s comments that the jobs being offered are “good paying,” the advertise-ments he referred to showed that the company was only offering $7 an hour, according to records obtained from the Texas Workforce Commis-sion. In addition, the records from the TWC state that the company’s first quarter pay-roll was $2.3 million, but Cole told The Examiner that the company’s payroll was more than $3 million a week.
Those same records show that on Jan. 13, 14 and 15, STI advertised that it was seeking “153 temporary fitter helpers” at “$7.12 hr, 35 hr wk, 7am-3pm, M-F.”
Another advertisement offers jobs for “145 tempo-rary laborers” at a pay wage of “$7 hr, 35 hr wk, 7am-3pm M-F.”
Neither ad stated that the workers being requested were for skilled craftsmen, as stat-ed by Cole. And neither ad stated that workers would be paid more than $10 an hour, which was also stated by Cole. In fact, both ads clearly stated that the workers being sought needed no education or experience.
When questioned about the discrepancies, Cole said he did not know what the ads said, and that he was “not aware of any $7 an hour jobs — maybe for a janitor or something.”
The application filed by STI seeking foreign workers for its shops in Buna, Bridge City and Nederland states, “This employer has found it impossible to locate any U.S. workers that want the tempo-rary jobs. Because of this impossibility of finding U.S. workers on a temporary basis, this employer requests certifi-cation under the H2B pro-gram.”
The H2B visa program is designed to allow companies to seek foreign workers only after they have exhausted all possible means of hiring American workers for the jobs they are trying to fill.
“If we could find folks, we’d hire them,” Cole said. “We have a payroll of $3 mil-lion a week. We buy locally and we try to hire people locally…. What we are offer-ing people is the going wage around here.”
Anthony Volentine, busi-ness manager of Pipe Fitters’ Local 195, said that no one has contacted him regarding jobs at STI.
See HIRING on page 8 A
Business as usual!
AND, for the What It is Worth Department, someone needs to find out how much real estate actually is owned by Mexicans who have private homes, private jets and private maids living it up in that town. As for advertising in Mexico. YES. here in Mexico we have had two incidents..
Modestos Architect told him to get 40 workers on a bus, that to set aside their place to go get a job in America, they each had to pay $200 to insure a seat on the bus. At about 6pm, 40 anxious souls full of much pride, goin' to make real dollars, gradually as the Sun sat and it got darker, realized that it was a scheme, and no one would be picking them up.
Another case was an American, took passports, collected money and got phoney visas. They were arrested at the Mexico City airport for producing forged U.S. vistor visas. People taking advantage of people.
FWIW, 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." - City Journal's Heather Mac Donald
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"We can't find Americans to do those jobs!"
How many times do you instead hear,
"We can't find Americans to do those jobs for almost nothing...! Which is what big companies would prefer to pay..."
Where I am I see that more attitude more in the small to medium companies, as opposed to the big ones.
If we make all illegals, Americans; who would do the jobs Americans won't do?
The Federal,State & Local Prison system has a labor ready work force that can be put to work all across the Nation. Why does the government refuse to apply this common sense fix?... OH Yeah!, I forgot... The Government No Brains here!
I wonder; is this the economy that OBL organs such as the WSJ are talking about when they say that illegals are good for the economy?
We've had it posted here before - last year? - that there are networks of supporters in CA that sell cars to illegals, run employment agencies for illegals, rent or sell homes to illegals...some parts of our country are already lost if we don't do something about it.
I certainly do.
To H*** with $2 lettuce; I don't like eating crispy water anyway, so never buy it.
OTOH, I'm more than willing to pay an extra $.50/pound for HONEST chicken, if that is what it takes.
As it is, from THIS article, I'll have to be more choosy about beef & pork, too.
Wish they had named for whom Senor Sosa is "organizing meat packing workers" in Nebraska.
I have worked alongside illegal aliens. In my experience, most had exactly the same work-eithic and attention to detail as the average high-school dropout. I suspect the people you're referring to as 'Mexicans' are actually legal citizens and/or residents of the US.
Most people who hire illegal aliens from Mexico do so for 2 reasons:
1) They can hire them cheaper than US citizens, and drive down wages
2) They don't have documentation, and don't speak the language, so they are less likely to seek other employment (lower turnover rate)
They need to up the ante on the prison term for possessing or making fake SSN cards, green cards or drivers licenses. Maybe they need to give the Treasury Dept. (USSS) jurstisdiction over going after government document forgers.
For those of us who live in agricultural areas, this is no surprise. A simple phone call and $1500 is what it costs....
I have been proposing such a "fine" idea myself for quite some time... $10,000 per offense for starters....
And GW knows EXACTLY what he is doing - Remember - Vincente Fox is his good buddy. I'm not sure exactly what his ultimate goal is, but I don't trust him on this issue - period. He has betrayed us on this single issue. I back the WOT, yet how can he claim we are fighting a real war if we don't secure our borders? If it were not for our young soldiers loosing life and limb, it would be hard to take the war seriously with wide-open borders....
I don't like it, but I approve of this more than using illegal labor. (They are using legitamate means and legitimate workers, instead of illegals)
Yeah, no kidding! /sarcasm
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