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Collateral Damage In The Immigration War
GOPUSA ^ | January 19, 2007 | Linda Chavez

Posted on 01/19/2007 2:31:09 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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So Linda is saying either you hire good workers who don't care about the country (illegals) or you hire Americans who simply don't care, period (reprobates)? Would that actually happen everywhere?
1 posted on 01/19/2007 2:31:11 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; ...

PING!


2 posted on 01/19/2007 2:31:50 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Lets find a sympathetic exception to make a rule with!?!?


3 posted on 01/19/2007 2:32:59 PM PST by Paloma_55 (I may be a hateful bigot, but I still love you)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Magnify this problem by the thousands and you can see the impact on the U.S. economy.

Guess I'll just pay more for chicken.

4 posted on 01/19/2007 2:33:06 PM PST by dirtboy (Duncan Hunter - I still like ya, but please read the 10th and get back to me regarding Congr pardons)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is called propaganda.


5 posted on 01/19/2007 2:34:25 PM PST by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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The plant did what many anti-immigration groups say is the solution to becoming dependent on immigrant and illegal alien labor: It raised wages by more than a dollar an hour.

How about a couple of bucks an hour? Law of supply and demand.

6 posted on 01/19/2007 2:36:09 PM PST by glorgau
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

KSL sucks! The guy knew what the situation was before he even stepped into the military. Now he gets to suffer, I may be a hateful conservative, but I'm an objective hateful conservative. Get the illegals out. No more baby rats on my dime.

SS


7 posted on 01/19/2007 2:38:12 PM PST by Sword_Svalbardt (Sword Svalbardt)
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To: Sword_Svalbardt

Linda is always chewing at the edge of the issue.


8 posted on 01/19/2007 2:39:48 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What ever happened to upholding the law ?? That would have solved the problem of illegals a long time ago -- thank you Washington, DC.


9 posted on 01/19/2007 2:42:49 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Was this written by this Linda Chavez?

From: http://www.sptimes.com/News/011001/Worldandnation/Illegal_hiring_goes_o.shtml

Linda Chavez withdrew as President-elect George W. Bush's nominee for secretary of labor on Tuesday. She was under fire for providing housing and cash to an illegal immigrant who did chores in Chavez's home, although she denies she was paying for housework.

According to reports, Marta Mercado, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, lived with Chavez from 1991 to 1993. Chavez also referred the immigrant to a neighbor who gave her a regular babysitting job.

It appears that Linda is afraid of losing more of the cheap labor to clean her home.

10 posted on 01/19/2007 2:44:32 PM PST by RJL
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"....you've just given a year and a half of your life to serving your country in Iraq and come home to find that your pregnant wife..."

faux pas, Linda?


11 posted on 01/19/2007 2:44:45 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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The Thorsteds' disrupted lives are the consequence of Congress' failure to resolve the dilemma of what to do with 12.5 million illegal aliens living here.

No, it representa a failure of Mr. Thorsted to legalize his wife after marrying her. While I sympathize with his plight, I also had a daughter born in Japan and had to kill a day going to the Embassy in Tokyo to show her birth certificate, my wife's marriage certificate and pay the fees for her birth certificate and passport. In retrospect, it was a rather cheap price for U.S. citizenship.

It also represents a failure of the bureaucracy (and enabling legislation from congress) to distinguish between genuinely needy cases like the Thorsteds and your run-of-the-mill line jumper who has no loyalty to this country (as demonstrated by Mr. Thorsted's military service) and no ties to any American citizen except to use them as an ATM.

12 posted on 01/19/2007 2:46:37 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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How about a couple of bucks an hour? Law of supply and demand.

Yea, notice how she conveniently leaves out the amount they had been paying.

It's also not surprising that since they had been employing an illegal work force willing to work for very little, that there wasn't a large pool of legal workers sitting around, waiting to get a job.

A large plant paying low wages for unskilled labor isn't going to attract a lot of new workers to the area.

I don't know that there's an easy solution, but continuing to reward hiring illegal workers isn't the right solution.

13 posted on 01/19/2007 2:49:28 PM PST by untrained skeptic
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To: Vn_survivor_67-68

*cough*


14 posted on 01/19/2007 2:49:53 PM PST by EternalVigilance ("Godlike to the godless, Barack Obama" - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: dirtboy
No More Illegals...
15 posted on 01/19/2007 2:50:51 PM PST by x1stcav (I always thought he was a Murthaf*cker.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Linda Chavez is an idiot, who harbored an illegal alien herself.


16 posted on 01/19/2007 2:51:59 PM PST by Thorin ("I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What's so hard about getting married BEFORE you have the baby?

Linda has no answer.


17 posted on 01/19/2007 2:53:40 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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To: untrained skeptic

well, we could cut the easy entitlements programs that allow American citizens and aliens "legally" and "illegally" present in America to live off the taxpayers......it would shake up the economy for awhile, but it would in short order restore the work ethic in America.


18 posted on 01/19/2007 2:55:11 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: Kitten Festival

***Contorted Prezel Logic Alert***


19 posted on 01/19/2007 2:56:45 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Johana's parents forced her to come to the U.S. from Guatemala illegally when she was a child. She can correct that with great ease by moving back to Guatemala.
20 posted on 01/19/2007 2:56:55 PM PST by Kitten Festival
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