[AuntB]

I find it interesting that aliens despise our laws, break our labor and immigration laws, but want the LAW and the USA to defend them when all doesn't go according to their plan.

Ya gotta love the part about NONE of them speaking English, even the Polish contractor!

[Andonius_99]

Screw ‘em. Send ‘em back where they came from if they aren’t here legally...and keep their money!

[joshhiggins]

What kind of mother names her kid Coyote-catalaca?

Is it the model of Mexican transportation she got pregnant in?

And what is a Jitney bus? I live in the United States, and I've never seen nor heard of a Jitney bus before.

[Krankor]

The same thing happened to Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of Sierra Madre

[samtheman]

The problem of illegal immigration should be handled first and foremost at the border.

As a second line of defense, employers who knowingly hire illegals should be heavily fined and the employees deported.

As for those who try to rip any laborer off, legal or illegal, and run, in effect, a slave-labor operation, they should be heavily fined and spend some time in jail.

There are no good actors here, from the US government on down.

[pnh102]

Wow... getting your butt kicked by Jesus... who is going to believe that?

[outofstyle]

These illegal aliens are being exploited by unscrupulous employers.

They are two "wrongs" here. If we fixed the immigration problem, they both would go away.

[Reagan is King]

Diana Mejia, president of Wind of the Spirit, a Morristown-based immigrant rights group, has worked with the Passaic day laborers and said their story demonstrates how the lack of regulation over immigrant laborers can prove disastrous.

Well, then don't come here to work illegally. Problem solved!

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Gallindo, who visited the men in jail, said the men understood that they would keep the tools as collateral for payment -- $180 a day per person.

$180 a day per person? For illegal alien day laborers? That's $18 per hour for their "10 hour day". Not likely!

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"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 who beat the crap out of their boss and stole his tools and were then arrested, would be forced to separate from their children," Sapone said.

There, fixed it.

[wtc911]

"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.

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Why are their children here instead of back home? Who pays for their day care or schooling? What do they do when they get sick?

Do you know how many Europreans, Asians, Africans and South Americans come here and work hard to send money home to their families? I personally know many. Why is it that the mexicans are the only ones who get to bring the whole village with them at our expense?

[sazerac]

"Even if it was true that these men worked for the victim all day, and he didn't pay them, it would not allow them to assault him or take his nail guns," Rowan said in a telephone interview Thursday.

Oh yes it would! What are these guys gonna do? Take him to court? If you hire illegal immigrants you get what you deserve.

[econjack]

He acknowledged that the three are in the country illegally.

The US courts are not available to them. Deport them. Case closed.

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s odd that this “Polish contractor” is never named, almost as odd as “Coyotecatl-Aca” for a Mexican surname.

But, as far as I’m concerned, these three scammers got scammed themselves. All parties involved broke the law, and should be hauled before a judge. Assault and battery, theft, immigration violations and probably identity theft for the three. Tax evasion at a minimum for the unnamed Polish contractor.

[Red_Devil 232]

"...charged with robbery and facing possible deportation ..."

Why are they not facing Certain Deportation?

[popdonnelly]

I can’t take anyone’s side on this one. The immigrants are breaking the law by being here, and the guy who got beat up is a bum looking for cheap labor, and then cheating them out of their money.

[shaft29]

We need Judge Judy or Judge Mathis to sort this all out.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.