Day laborers accused of assault say their boss didn't pay them

N. Jersey Media Group ^ | Dec. 21, 2007 | MEREDITH MANDELL

[moehoward]

There is a silver lining here. If more illegals beat up their employers, maybe fewer would find employment.

[proudofthesouth]

The more and more stories I read about illegals really makes me think that the U.S. Constitution was dissolved years ago and we just haven’t been told.

Any politician whether they are local or national who supports and won’t do anything about illegals should be charged with treason!

I’m sick of the whole lot of them from the WH on down.

[sam_paine]

‘Jitney Cabs’ => 'Pihr'-'rah'-'tays' en Espanol.

[sam_paine]

The more and more stories I read about illegals really makes me think that the U.S. Constitution was dissolved years ago and we just haven’t been told.

We were told quite clearly at Appamottox, 1865.

[traditional1]

"Workers can learn their rights"

This is the ROOT of the problem: criminal invaders have NO rights in our home, they illegally broke in, and expect to be treated as part of the "American family", which is B.S. to the nth degree. They are entitled to NOTHING, and should be deported immediately upon capture for their illegal entry.

[sam_paine]

Er. ‘Appomattox,’ too.

[liberallarry]

And screw the investors and homeowners who lost their shirts in the latest mortgage scam! And if innocents get hurt or got hurt as collateral damage, screw them too! As for the law, it's written by political whores and defended by shysters so it doesn't deserve respect or consideration either. So no bailouts with taxpayer money.

Let's face it - people are immoral and theft and greed are at the heart of all human transactions.

On the other hand - more rationally :), $18/hr to illegal immigrants for ripping shingles off roofs? I don't believe it.

[proudofthesouth]

I agree. I truly, truly, deeply love this country but more and more I’m beginning to hate it as well.

[melancholy]

"It would be a very sad ending if these three men who were here to work hard and put food on the table, who put in honest work and weren't paid and were then arrested, would be forced to separate from their children," Sapone said.

No. This is not very sad. It's very sad when we hear people like Sapone saying this everyday with complete impunity.

We hear nothing about breaking the law by entering the US illegally, committing crime after crime after crime, with no punishment meted.

Do we have to hear about how bad it is to legally breaking up the families of lawbreakers to enforce the law?

I say, start breaking the criminals' heads –same as they are raping, murdering, robbing, DUI-driving- and/or throw them out with their illegal families and anchor babies.

Let's get done with it! Apply Mexican Law to Mexican illegals in the US, which will take care of them quite humanely!

[Sybeck1]

Edward Sapone, who was hired by the Mexican Consulate, said the men were engaged in a wage dispute with a drunken contractor who harmed himself and who falsely implicated them. He acknowledged that the three are in the country illegally.

In Arkansas this could easily happen with the one dollar given to Senor Huckabee that time.

[bert]

A Jitney is a small bus, like a trolly. We have several here as public transport.

The first was put into service by an exmayor named Jitney who was dredged up to have the ceremony for the bus having the same name.

[mtbopfuyn]

The three now are sitting in the Passaic County Jail, charged with robbery and facing possible deportation

Possible deportation? Have them make restitution or serve time and then kick their sorry behinds back across the Rio Grande. Of course Jorge has that open invitation for them to cross over as many times as they wish.

[gubamyster]

ping

[mtbopfuyn]

Oh, so that’s what all those big buses are with Mexican writing all over them clogging up I35. They even have a taco vendor who pulls onto the frontage road near south of Austin near Bud. The bus parks dangerously on the edge of the highway while the passengers jump out causing accidents of US citizens trying to avoid hitting them.

[mtbopfuyn]

And there’s another bus that stops regularly at a convenience store in Temple, TX. That’s just two of the dozens around here. And ICE is nowhere to be found.

[raybbr]

"They bring us to places like Atlantic City and other places we don't know," Gallindo said in Spanish. "After eight hours they say, 'Just 20 minutes more,' and that becomes three hours. If we protest, they won't pay us, or they'll leave us there to find our way home."

Just keep heading south. You'll get home.

[Gritty]

Immigrant advocates have been pushing for legislation to regulate the shady arrangements between day laborers and contractors. Rep. Luis Gutierrez , D-Ill., introduced a bill in 2003 called the Day Labor Fairness and Protection Act, to give day laborers certain rights.

I'm speechless.

Whatever happened to prosecuting "aiding and abetting criminal behavior"? I see a lot of targets here.

[Peter Libra]

From the text.

The three men boarded a jitney bus. The officer forced the men to get off.

One officer doing his job. Took something of a risk to some extent. I put the name of the lawyer for the men- Edward Sapone, on Google. Not to disrespect the man and his profession, but he is one sharp lawyer.

The problem is that it is likely that he does not see what his actions engender. That of massive sums of public monies going down the drain. Who suffers? Fellow called Doakes.

[Tammy8]

This incident really highlights what it’s all about- modern slavery.

It doesn’t just happen to illegals from Mexico either, many Chinese illegals are hidden away in NY City, to slave for pennies they may not get paid, and live in squalor provided usually by the employer.

Those that condone and support illegal labor in this country are promoting slavery- whether they admit it or not.

[Moonman62]

Let's face it - people are immoral and theft and greed are at the heart of all human transactions.

Now I know why you're a liberal.