No papers? No problem

Star Ledger ^ | 07.23.06 | RALPH R. ORTEGA

[Coleus]

To the laborers sitting in the waiting room of a temp agency in Elizabeth, she is simply "La Se ñora." She's the woman to see for a warehouse or manufacturing job at plants just a short drive away. Even at agencies that hire temporary workers, it is against the law to hire people who entered the country illegally. Federal laws re quire employers to verify a worker's status with identity and work authorization documents, such as a Social Security card, before they hire someone.

But in May, Dilcia "Dee" Mem breno at Nielsen Staffing Services -- La Señora --made an exception. She hired me, even after I told her I had no proper documentation. I was sent to work eight hours at a L'Oréal warehouse in South Brunswick. And my lack of papers soon became moot, because, with the help of immigrant coworkers I met there, I was able to buy a bogus Social Security card and green card for $140.

"It is what we do for each other," said the man who brokered the deal with a document seller. He was not involved in manufacturing the fakes, or profiting from their sale. "I am not into that," he said. In New Jersey, industrial temp agencies have become the main link between newly arrived illegal immigrants and their first job, usually in a warehouse, assembly line or packing facility. For the companies where the immigrants work, the agencies provide an eager, flexible work force that can be increased or decreased on a daily basis. For newly arrived im migrants, the agencies provide a crucial foothold -- a way to find work quickly with no contacts, with a choice of night shifts or day work.

[Lurker]

vDilcia "Dee" Mem breno at Nielsen Staffing Services

is voilating Federal Laws. She needs to be indicted, tried, convicted, and incarcerated.

And my lack of papers soon became moot, because, with the help of immigrant coworkers I met there, I was able to buy a bogus Social Security card and green card for $140.

This reporter, too needs to be indicted for trafficing in fraudulent documents (a felony btw), tried, convicted, and icarcerated as well.

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[Texas_Jarhead]

Interesting piece.

I especially like the Us against Them attitude displayed in the final comment, ""We are all united as immigrants in this country," he said. "People want to get rid of us. But we are here only because we want to work and because we want a fighting chance.""

[gubamyster]

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[txdoda]

Wow, the crooks in Jersey are really, really slow.....

I just read an article about a TV reporter going undercover to *shop for a phony green card & SS #.

In Denver he was able to pay for and receive his phony docts in only 45 minutes.

Our laws & the enforcement of them are a complete JOKE, when it comes to illegals.

[Wonder Warthog]

More of your "honest illegals". Just FYI, document fraud of this type is a felony. How many "honest illegals" don't have forged documents????

[texastoo]

Everything is a joke when it comes to Mexico. Yesterday, I heard on TV where customs was cracking down on US citizens buying medicine in Canada. You can bet customs won't enforce the same law in Mexico where many US citizens buy their meds.

[Dead Corpse]

Agreed.

If not, I wonder what laws I can start ignoring right now...

[txdoda]

I wonder what laws I can start ignoring right now...

LOL......I've been asking for years for the 'list' of laws that us citizens can break (without fear of prosecution).

I have yet to receive even one reply to this question......even here on FR.

(you can however, easily EMPLOY illegals.....as every imm."reform" bill seems to include an AMNESTY for the illegal employers.)

[lost_sovereignty]

It gets worse guys... this is the bang up job that our government is doing in order to "protect" our borders.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=474394

'Yup,' it's easy to cross U.S. border Posted: July 22, 2006

There's a lot to disagree about in this illegal immigration debate, but even polar opposites - those for punishment vs. a pathway to citizenship - might agree on one thing: Border security is a place to start.

Convincing evidence comes from long-time Waukesha resident Henry E. Rivera, a third-generation Texas native of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent who's worked 33 years at the same Waukesha factory and who's raised a family in the city. He can't believe what happened on his July 4 trip to the Mexican-U.S. border.

It's a sieve, as he sees it, even when you come face to face with U.S. Border Patrol.

In his case, all they did - twice - on his re-entry to the United States was ask if he was an American citizen.

Both times, his only proof was a one-word answer: "Yup."

"They didn't check nothing,' " he said. "That just burns me up."

[Dead Corpse]

I was thinking more along the lines of putting up an unapproved shed in my back yard. Removing the license plate tags from my vehicles. Start carrying a firearm openly every where I go. Maybe set my withholdings so that I effectively get back that $14-15k a year the FedGov steals from me.

I wonder how long it'd take for the SWAT team to show up and kill me.

Maybe if I left the US and came back in as an illegal, everything would be cool. Heck, some of those taxes I paid in might come back to me as free medical care in an ER and free school for my daughter.

[stephenjohnbanker]

"If not, I wonder what laws I can start ignoring right now..."

Good morning, DC!

The answer is none. You and I would go to jail : )

[Utahrd]

What did he expect?

Our tax money should go to pay a huge judgement for Ethnic Profiling after a Clinton-appointed judge decides that his civil rights were violated?

You want the DHS employee to lose his job for keeping too many $6 an hour employees that work for Republican campaign contributors out of the country?

[Dead Corpse]

Jail? Nah... probably not. For the hideous offense of making possible machine guns in my garage they'd send in a SWAT team to give me the "Ruby Ridge" treatment. Even if it later turned out that I was not infact making any illegal firearms at all, my name would still have been smeared across the headlines as some extremist nut case.

But if I'm an illegal smuggling fokls across the border, and using them as drug mules to top it off, then I get a suspended sentance and told to "don't do that again".

[AppleButter]

I especially like the Us against Them attitude displayed in the final comment.

Only us gringos are naive enough to think that it's not always Us against Them.

When America finally becomes a Latino nation, do you think they'll set aside a month for Gringo History? Will the beer companies keep the memory of 4th of July going?