B.S.
All you had to do was ask the contractor to show you their papers. He would have left that day and you can guess why. A restaurant and your own back yard aren’t comparable.
Uhhh...once-bitten, twice-shy should apply here.
That aside, these illegals from at the Romney mansion are better off than the ones in Pasadena,TX.
Wasn’t there some type deal with Tancredo a couple of years back with some contractor doing work on his house and had illegals hired as part of the crew?.... Don’t remember the details and I maybe confused on who/what/when....
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Ooh. Testy.
Mitt, Mitt, Mitt. I wasn’t going to bash you over the incident, but I will bash you for this whiney response!
There. See. He's washed his hands.
So what about labor laws, and laws in general? He's just/was the head law enforcement officer of the State. And besides, he got a good price. Lot's cheaper than those legal companies.
Don’t worry Fred will make it right, maybe.
But on immigration, Mr. Thompson had several votes where he bucked the pack — and seemed to favor illegal aliens.
The most stark example was his 1995 vote on the welfare overhaul, when he voted to preserve illegal aliens’ ability to receive federal benefits. He was one of just six senators to vote that way, joining four other Republicans and one Democrat.
And in 1996, as Congress considered a crackdown on illegal aliens, Mr. Thompson voted against setting up a system so employers could verify the legal status of their workers.
Well Mutt, If you OWN the restaurant, and the illegals have worked there for 10 freaking years, you might just want to check into it.
I generally like to talk to the guy who comes over to mow my lawn. I know him, and I know his sons, who occasionally come over to help. I even know that he once owned a farm but lost it, and that several generations of his family used to live by a pond near us.
How could you have a gang of Mexicans out there mowing your lawn every week and not notice it?
Maybe it’s not up to the average homeowner to check the citizenship of the guys who mow his lawn. But if you’re running for president, it’s peculiarly stupid or arrogant not to do so.
There is no pass on this one for Romney. If he was unaware it would be questionable. BUT...he was already aware that the contractor used illegals. Romney was able to confront the issue with the contractor last year when he gave him a second chance. Thats when it became his responsibility to insure that the contractor was keeping his word. If he could confront him that time there is no reason he could not question whether or not the contractor was true to his word. Apparently the man did not even change out the workers. To use the excuse I was too busy campaigning doesn’t cut it.
According to the law, that is no excuse. You are guilty of a felony, Romney.
Willard’s motto is “The Buck Stops Way the Hell Over There Somewhere.”
Gee, wonder if there are any illegal immigrants sell newspapers on my home town streets in Houston? Did the Houston Chronicle go the extra mile to make sure their contractors are not employing illegal immigrants?
It NEVER is mitt’s fault.
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This guy is an idiot. There is a huge difference between an illegal working at a restaurant than one working for a company at your own house, and yes I do think you have a responsibility to know this beforehand. When you hire a landscape service ask the owner BEFORE hiring them if all their employees are LEGAL.
I’m no Romney fan, but I would think he might be a little too busy campaigning for President to check on the gardener’s papers.
I guess I’m guilty too because I think my HOA dues were used to hire a company that may employee illegals. I don’t go to the meetings, so what do I know? I might have payed for a meal at a restaurant that may have illegals in the kitchen. I don’t have time to check everyone’s paperwork everywhere I go.
There are so many illegals in the country now, there is almost no way to avoid accidentally paying a company that employs them. We need to worry about the big problems of building the fence and eliminating public benefits to illegals. ICE needs to get off their butts and enforce our laws since that’s what we pay them for. The average citizen hasn’t got the time to deal with it all by themselves.
He’s way too defensive about this. This is a trivial issue, and all he’d need to say is that he hired a contractor to do a job and naturally presumed that the contractor’s hiring decisions were on the up & up. Getting testy and ruffled about it just generates more headlines, and it seems that this has gotten way more mileage than its merits deserve.
1. Not his fault that two separate groups of illegal
immigrants worked at two separate homes he lived in.
Not his fault either time.
2. Not his fault a fake Fred Thompson website appeared,
connected to his campaign.
3. Not his fault that his campaign workers traveling with
Mitt pretended to be police, complete with fake badges to
bully people. Wasn’t until he was outed in the second state
that he stopped it (we think). Took two times, but neither
was his fault.
4. Not Mitt’s fault that his health plan offers $50 abortions
5. Never his fault. Never. Quit trying to say anything is
Mitt’s fault. You’re picking on Mitt because of his faith.
Amazing how a conservative could post an article by a left wing rag and look at it as gospel. Especially since the Boston Globe and every other left wing rag wants open borders and more illegals to vote democrat. It is dispicable that they would even attack Romney over this.