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Quite simply, you don't know what you are talking about. Your contention with her is, in fact, the essence of the case here. If it were a blatant case of them hiring illegals they CERTAINLY would not have fought this in court, with all the attendant legal fees.

Some of you people are so blinded by your hatred on this issue that you will believe any ridiculous charge, accept any loss of freedom, welcome any attack on business, and gladly surrender to a police state (THAT is the only way we can round em up and expel them) just so you won't have to put up with hearing some contractor speak spanish.

America got a yellow tinge in the 1890s, when the percentage of foreigners hit 14.9 per cent (yeah, that is right, almost 3 percentage points HIGHER than the highest illegal estimates today). America got a black tinge in the early 1800s. America got an Irish brogue in the late 1800s and an Italian oily skin look a little later. We survived, and they eventually changed the look and feel of the country.

You people can go down wailing about it or you can look to accomodate and help build concepts of freedom justice and independence to a people group who have known none of that their whole lives. Swapping cups of venom among yourselves on Free Republic is just going to confirm your morphing into the isolated, bitter, bilious clique of fringe haters who push a group NOT already leftists into the arms of those who seek only to use them to gain power. These people are largely hard workers, independent, and although they will take a handout, NOT looking for them. They ARE going to be the largest minority of voters here in the next few years (they are already the largest minority), and if you think this kind of hateful exclusionary crap is going to do you good in the long run, you are sadly sadly mistakened.

Finally, PLEASE do not give me the tired old cant of "You just want to destroy our way of life and reward lawbreakers." I do not. I think the fed has done a horrific job on its constituional duty "To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization." I would love to see the fed take an intelligent approach to ingress/egress of proximate non-citizens and actually admit aliens appropriate to our 4.4% unemployment rate in a regulated manner, while controlling the borders. They have elected to do the former "under the table" and ignore the latter, and that is why we have the mess we have.

Again, and finally, the anser is NOT to expand federal power to go after businesses who hire people. This is draconian, anti-freedom, and statist. I will remind you again that the DEFINITION of a person who is both patriotic and statist is "fascist."