Posted on 05/24/2008 3:40:59 PM PDT by shrinkermd
Federal immigration officials raided an Iowa meatpacking plant this month... Nearly 400 of the plant's 900 employees were arrested on immigration charges. Do you feel safer?
Ever since immigration reform died in Congress last year, the Bush Administration has made a show of stepping up enforcement. But do homeland security officials really have nothing better to do than raid businesses that hire willing workers – especially in states like Iowa, where the jobless rate is 3.5%? These immigrants are obviously responding to a labor shortage for certain jobs. Giving them a legal way to enter the country would free up homeland security money and manpower to focus on real threats.
Meanwhile, back in Washington, lawmakers continue to ignore this economic reality and pretend that illegal immigration is nothing more than a law enforcement issue. The good news is that their latest attempt to turn employers into immigration police appears to have stalled.
The Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act (SAVE) was introduced by Heath Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat. The bill does nothing to increase legal immigration, which is the only realistic way to decrease illegal immigration. Instead, it throws more money at a mandatory employment verification system (E-Verify) for the nation's six million employers.
The Democrats never intended to pass the measure, mind you. While collecting co-sponsors, Mr. Shuler assured Democrats there would be no action this year.
Rahm Emanuel, the Blue Dog patron in the House leadership, told reporters that a recent Congressional Budget Office report had given him pause. The CBO estimated SAVE would cost more that $30 billion in lost tax revenues and spending because it would increase the number of employers and workers who resort to the black market outside of the tax system.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Reading that you would never know the owners of the plant were scumbags hiring what amounts to indentured servants.
WSJ—The usual retarded open borders bull from the capitalists without loyalty to America
BIG SIGH
I still have my Duncan bumper sticker on my car..
Sob..
Do you feel safer?
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Not yet...
Ask me again when 40,000,000 have been deported...
Rep. Cole is still feeling the love 8 days later. LOL!
http://blog.nrcc.org/comment.cfm?entry_id=400
“Dear Mr. Cole,
If you were serious about helping American families you would reverse the insane government policies that:
—Comsume up 40% of the average middle class family’s income with taxes.
—Transfer much of that tax revenue to special interests — witness the disgusting pork-laden farm bill that so many republican Congressmen approved.
—Increase the cost of food through price supports, the ethanol mandates, etc.
—Increase the cost of energy by prohibiting energy exploration just about anywhere oil and gas deposits are found in the United states.
—Fail to police the borders of the United States.
—Allow unlimited numbers of illegal immigrants to drive down the value of American labor, while allowing illegal immigrants access to public benefits.
—Prevent parents from removing kids from disastrous, unsafe, 100%- education-free school districts, like the Los Angeles Unified School District.
By the way Mr Cole, I notice that nobody from the NRCC has deigned to reply to the thousands of posters on this blog. This alone speaks volumes
about what’s really important to Tom Cole and the NRCC.
Posted: Mike W. - California on May 24, 2008 at 2:50 PM”
After Juan's baldfaced and unabashed betrayal of their interests, last year: this was so absolutely, positively NOT the issue on which to cross the conservative voting base.
Whole lotta congresscritters are gonna be blinking rapidly, come the evening of 11/04, and whimpering: "... but... but... how in God's name did all of this just happen? I'M A CLOSE, PERSONAL FRIEND OF KARL ROVE, FOR PITY'S SAKE -- !!!" ;)
We too, cancelled our subscription to WSJ. They called twice to find out why. They got their ears burned but good.
They just don’t get it. Illegal equals violation of the law. We don’t get to pick and choose among the laws to which we will or will not conform.
Back to where immigration is for benefiting America, and not the world.
A-a-a-a-men.
"You're arresting me just 'cause I flacked Juan McCain on FRepublic?"
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Further on that issue Joe Morgenstern reviews the movie ‘Waitress’, and in the review conclusion tells us that writer director actress
Adrienne Shelley is brutally murdered by a construction worker at her office. He avoids letting us know the killer is an illegal alien.
BS. I read that the workers were getting $5 an hour. The labor shortage is for workers at that rate. Pay more and plenty of Iowans would be willing to take the jobs.
Thanks for the link. Disgusting; the feds need to throw the book at Agriprocessors’ management.
Bump for later
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/06/07/new-vent-gorilla-warfare-against-the-open-borders-wsj/
Michelle had commented on the WSJ’s no borders policy, they responded about a "Guerrilla" attack.
Michelle then hoists them with a "Gorilla" attack using the WSJ’s own video showing their hypocrisy with an entire editorial board meeting of middle aged white males, with one woman, sitting on the window sill, no place at the table for her, and one black man, no place at the table for him either. But hey, we're the bigots!
The WSJ is horrible they are the Simon Legree’s of the buggy whip industry with a touch of Goebels. Defending a 19th century sweatshop as the model of American prosperity, what scum, what morons.
So do I.
It’s never coming off!
Easily 60-70% of the legal immigrants we get from Mexico and Central America are as low class and uneducated as the illegal aliens we get
The real disaster is we allow in more legal immigrants from Mexico than anywhere else. Something like 400,000 per year mostly due to "family reunification".
If I were king of America I would build a border fence, reduce legal/illegal Mexican immigration to zero and allow 400,000 Europeans (real Europeans not Muslims living in Europe) to immigrate here each year with preferences for educated English speakers and those learning English. This was pretty much our immigration policy before the Ted Kennedy immigration acts of 1965 which changed our emphasis on immigration from Europe to immigration from the 3rd world
Pre-Hart Celler laws discriminated against southern and eastern Europeans too. Nevertheless, those are some good points. We can’t all be king, however. ;-)
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