Posted on 06/02/2007 10:00:52 PM PDT by Baladas
It's an issue with no clear solution, and one that has divided a nation. And now, illegal immigration has a local impact.
"I mean there's proper ways to get a pass to come in here, but at the same time if I lived in Mexico, and I wanted to better myself, then I'd probably do anything I ever could to get into the United States," says Gene Butler, owner of the Roadhouse Steakhouse.
Saturday morning, Wood County Sheriffs Deputies received a call from the Department of Labor, located in Charleston.
"They wanted to investigate the new Holiday Inn Express going in out at Mineral Wells, they had received a tip and had information that there were possible workers there, that were illegal immigrants into our country," says Sgt. Dave Westfall of the Wood County Sheriffs Department.
What the officers found were five men believed to be illegal immigrants, working what they say were 16 hour days, seven days a week to build the Holiday Inn Express.
Three of the men were apprehended at the site, but two - 31-year-old Fransisco Cartageha and 33-year-old Jorge Caruajal - ran.
"First off, these are normally not violent people, they're more afraid of us than anything they ran just cause they were scared, and we understand that. The two that fled ran from the building across the interstate, we chased them on foot they went through the truck stop and were apprehended behind the truck stop, back in the wooded area. Once I found where they were at in the woods, we put a perimeter around that area and basically I just walked in and they surrendered to me without saying anything," says Westfall.
Butler says he understands the plight of the two men, but like many Americans, he has trouble offering a solution to a growing problem.
"It's not like a big crime was created here, I mean but at the same time we've got people on welfare, that need jobs and whatnot, but at the same time, too, its me as being an employer, I have a hard time getting employees to work. Its a, a who wins, you know?" he says.
Both Cartageha and Caruajal are out on bond tonight. They are facing charges of fleeing police and obstructing officers. The other three men at the site were taken into custody by the Department of Labor.
Toiling 24/7 building the Holiday Inn Expresses ordinairy Americans refuse to build. Running away from the cops ordinairy Americans refuse to run away from.
Sickening!
Its a, a who wins, you know?” he says.
With people with these attitudes, we all lose.
There is a solution — and Bush et al, want nothing to do with it because of personal agendas — and that is TO CLOSE THE BORDER, FIRST. With a looonnggg fence. Then address the issue of the millions that the feds allowed to cross our borders.
The scumbag Dems just want the Mexican vote FOR POWER, and the Repubs are just lost, have gone nuts with the One America crap, and have left the American citizen to rot.
There is a solution and the nutjobs in Washington are running the other way, with no care for America.
They ain’t beat us yet, Eagle!
They haven’t huh? Well you a nice rest,because I think they HAVE beat us !!!
The country is pissed, and they are letting our corrupt politicians know it. We still have a chance, albeit slim.
I honestly hope your right !!!
So do I, my FRiend.
A couple months ago, bashing Bush too vociferously could get a post pulled from FR. Some even claimed posters were getting pulled, for posting too emotionally.
A couple months ago, anyone expressing dismay at the prospect of uncontrolled illegal alien entry, was derided widely as a “border bot”.
No more. Now it’s become something of a movement.
There are still those trying to throw up a defensive pattern of namecalling. “Nativists” seems to be the latest approach.
But we’re getting somewhere.
It is no longer forbidden, to express that outrage, that sense of betrayal on this board. Because it’s heartfelt, it’s reasonable, and it’s above all principled.
This is significant. Keep fighting.
“It is no longer forbidden, to express that outrage, that sense of betrayal on this board. Because it’s heartfelt, it’s reasonable, and it’s above all principled.”
This bill is the end of America, if passed. Jim Rob has expressed the same sentiments. We must stop this bil!!!!
Meanwhile the guy who is trying to build the Holiday in Express for pennies, will simply find NEW illegals from the new crop who sneak in after the amnesty deadline and are willing to work 24 hours etc.
Hi, I’m new here, and this really bothers me. I think our government should take care of its OWN citizens first! Is that too much to ask?? I agree the borders should be closed and they should enforce the laws on the books now have before creating new ones that diss American citizens.
well what scares me the most is if they do take over what happens will the human race fall?
Tagline.
We're just here to pay taxes and to make sure big business gets their subsidized labor. It's pathetic what the Senate is attempting to pull against us.
“he has trouble offering a solution”
Why should he or we have to offer a solution? These ILLEGALS sould be in mexico forcing a solution to their own problems with their own government. Goodness knows, there are enough of them. Of course, it’s easier to steal from the US than fix problems at home.
Yeah, I've heard this crap from many "employers", and it usually means that the "employer" can't get people to work for the slave wages the "employer" wants to pay.
Some of these folks that need to make a living and the welfare benefits are more than what they can make by working, then most likely, they'll take the welfare.
We have many of those types in our society today and we probably made many of them that way, since we practically shove the bennies down their throat, even going so far as to advertise the availability of them on TV and radio.
The illegals can't qualify for the "gimme" system...yet...so they must take the $2.00 to $3.00 an hour crap jobs.
The employer is happy, since he makes more, pays no Work Comp or other contributions and can fire at will, for whatever reason and the employee has no recourse.
Nothing new.
We've beat this to death on this forum, time after time, and there are those out there that would vehemently support the way it is.
Bottom line is this:
Lock the damn borders and start deporting!
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