Posted on 06/13/2007 11:50:20 AM PDT by jhs80
About a year or two ago I offered a similar explanation: they’re worried about *civil suits* from *private individuals* (or class actions), such as the one filed against Mohawk Carpet. Some states have “private attorneys general” statutes that lets private citizens file suits on matters of public interest.
26% of all agricultural workers are illegal, but, that does not mean that at any given place of agricultural employment, 26% are illegal. At many places the number is zero. At others it would be well over half.
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According to Roy Beck of Numbers USA, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Senate Republican Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi have succeeded in twisting nearly enough GOP arms to assure Sen Ted Kennedy that they can deliver the votes to pass his S 1348 amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens.
SO CALL SENATORS IN D.C. 202-224-3121
VOICE YOUR OBJECTIONS TO THIS BILL ONCE AGAIN.
TELL THEM TO ENFORCE THE CURRENT IMMIGRATION LAWS.
TELL THEM TO BUILD DUNCAN HUNTER’S DOUBLE BORDER FENCE!
Vote with the lever on election day, vote with your wallet today.
The deal was in from the start, and the American people will never know what hit them, drugged as they are.
What kind of weak arms those senators must have! Just like the American people to choose such “representation”
I guess with big business money they do not need little old us to contribute. I will save my money for military funds and conservatives who will do the job rinos and rats will not do.
Are you not an “American people”?
>I’d rather have people like Chertoff clling me a “bigot”, than neighbors calling me “gringo”. Or “infadel!”<
Because people like Chertoff call us bigots, our neighbors WILL be calling us “gringo”. Or “infidel”!
I suggest you call up old Don Tyson in NW Arkansas - the largest Poultry producer in the US - and one of the biggest employers of illegals in the country.... It is my understanding that he is 100% in favor of amnesty (and is also speculated to be the reason Mike Huckabee is so much in love with Illegals...)
“Because people like Chertoff call us bigots, our neighbors WILL be calling us “gringo”. Or “infidel”!”
Therrrrre ya go!!
I received a letter (form) from Kyl today. He attempts to explain why he supports the bill. I read it, tore it up, sent it back to his office with a note telling him where to shove the pieces.
As an aside, I believe that LaRaza and the "caliphate" have a lot in common as regards the US and it ain't good.
BTTT
I disagree. As a staffing professional, I can tell you that many companies use staffing companies to cover their use of illegals, and so they are officially clean.
Del Monte foods, for example. Many tier two auto suppliers have expressed a desire for these workers and don’t care if they are legal or not. The reason? They show up. Every day, on time, they are in the spot. However, if the staffing company does due dilligence, these days they know if the worker is using a phony SSAN.
Bobby, is that you? Get with the program, man. Gonzalez is handling everyone on the street these days. Carrie gave it up a few months ago; I remember him telling me how he was gonna mow his own lawn after the new Marathon III was installed. LOL
Which reminds me, I need to get Gonzalez to clean up one of our hedges...
I believe we have proof. On another thread there is a transcript of Sen. Lindsey Graham on the today show saying in defense of Bush's amnesty: "And if Congress punts and we don't have the political will to get this done local and state government will act. There's over 1100 local laws being proposed now that would be a hodgepodge of immigration laws that would really bring this economy to our knees. "
If this is an accurate transcript then Graham has just confirmed the theory that the real purpose of Bush's push for amnesty is to preempt state and local action against illegal immigration. This is the real crisis Bush and the other political elites fear! The people may actually thwart their open borders agenda through passing laws at the local level!
This proves my long held belief that our political elites do not support or believe in our fundamental system of self-government in which the people get to decide these matters through the legislative process. Part of that process is the concept of divided government called federalism which gives the states the ability -- and more importantly, the responsibility -- to actively oppose and resist abusive and unconstitutional practices of the federal government. It works the other way as well as we witnessed during the civil rights era.
We now have a political class that has succeeded to a large degree in overturning the results of the American revolution -- self-government -- and has turned our government into a tool for furthering their own elite interests and open borders agenda. They are now attempting to stop citizens ability to influence even their own state and local governments. Basically, these elites reject the legislative authority of the American people (the basis of republican self-government which we are guarenteed in the Consitution). This is nothing less than a political coup conducted from above by Bush and the entire political and business class to substitute their own autocratic and arbitrary rule for popular self-government.
Benjamin Franklin warned us that it would be up to us to keep our republican form of government. The question is are "we the people" up to the task?
Thanks for the ping!
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