Posted on 01/26/2007 1:29:47 PM PST by kennedy
Bump devolve!
The union should be charged under RICO.
That cartoon is misleading and grossly inacurate. Hillary never wears dresses.
You're right, but it looks more like a sack so that's OK!!
The problem with that cartoon is that nobody expects any action from the dems on immigration reform, and they don't pretend to want any...
To make it more accurate, it needs to show GWB and all the chickensh*t pubbies in congress. They're the ones spouting concern but in reality doing nothing.
Boo Friggin' Hoo. If they want to be reunited with the deported illegals, all they have to do is call ICE and they can arrange to provide transportation.
Mexican supremacists, crypto-fascist Greens, media shills, and cheap-labor profiteers join hands, strike up Kumbaya, scream "racists!" and cry crocodile tears for the deported criminals.
But try bringing in ten million Africans or ten million Chinese as a riposte to the illegal "immigrant rights" crowd, and you will see who the real racists are.
Let's let in 10 million Russians or Indians and see how the apostles of "immigrant rights" react to that.
The title is wrong. It should be "Scared Workers Stay Away," not "Scared Workers Stay Home," since their home is not really in this country. I wish the scared workers would GO HOME.
"Scared Smithfield workers stay home"
This headline makes no sense. If they were staying at "home," they wouldn't be in Smithfield, they'd be in Mexico or whatever.
It's parody. You need to make one of the pubbies.
What does the union care? Illegal dues spend just as well as legal dues. In fact better because chances are they will be arrested and deported meaning the Union will not have to cough up his pension money.
Perhaps I'm naive, but - assuming that you ARE here legally - isn't it fairly easy to prove that you're here legally? 60 days seems a but excessive - even replacing a lost Soc Sec card can't take that long.
That's assuming that the workers are on the books. A BIG assumption.
From my limited understanding of - for instance - the roofing industry, "questionable" workers are paid cash - no insurance, no worker's comp needed. You get hurt? Too bad. Plenty more workers where you came from.
When those costs are taken out of the mix, it makes it hard for an honest employer to compete. That's why I think that the ICE agents are going after the wrong people. So they deported 21. There's still millions to go. BUT - if they go after the employer that hired these illegals - now that's hitting them where it hurts.
Going by the sound of the article, IMHO, there's no way management could NOT know what's going on. This isn't just a college student that overstayed their visa. When this many people are involved, it's a conscious decision to hire illegals and those involved need to be punished to the full extent of the law.
This is a way to deal with illegal immigration after they are here. So what is wrong with policing the borders to prevent illegal immigration in the first place?
Packing houses in the midwest have many immigrant workers. It is common to have postings in the plant in Spanish and Vietnamese. Most of the Vietnamese are likely legal immigrants. What about the others?
There is protest (also healthy) solution to deal with the Smithfields and other packers hiring illegals - buy naturally raised beef, pork or poultry from a farmer and find a local butcher to process it for your freezer.
"...as cheaply as possible by paying illegal immigrants incredibly low wages knowing full well that they can't bitch and moan to authorities. So what if we are tunneling beneath the American economy further weakening the base it stands on, we provide the jobs Americans aren't willing to do and we are getting fabulously wealthy on the backs of these illegals."
"Hey, if they are going to bypass immigration laws, why can't we bypass minimum wage laws?" -Smithfield Rep.
Smithfield...another brand name to avoid from now on.
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