Posted on 06/01/2008 8:27:35 AM PDT by AuntB
A good step!
Meanwhile, our borders remain wide open. The insanity, and destruction of our soverignty, our system of laws, the sanctity of U.S. citizenship, our security, and the rape of our taxpayers and REAL citizens goes on.
“A family owned commercial fishing business in Virginia and two of its owners paid $6.8 million in fines and forfeitures after pleading guilty to hiring 126 illegal aliens to work on their boats.”
We need to see a LOT more of this, but it is a nice start.
So, it seems like the illegal aliens prosecution was just a side charge tossed in to cause more pain. The real “crime” was causing problems for the military.
We need to see a LOT more of this, but it is a nice start.
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But you won’t. This is tokenism at this level. If the government had any intention of getting rid of illegals in our workforce, it would be happening in spades, with a border fence, and at least TEN of these “busts” per day on a significant scale.
What we see is just tokenism, so people cannot say that the government is doing nothing — they might as well be doing nothing.
Here is a yardstick: The day we hear on the news that the Feds have filed suit against McDonalds, Burger King, and other major fast food chains for employing illegals, THEN I will join in and say that something is being done. Now THAT would be a good start.
I am happy to see ANY positive action on the issue, but you do have a point. Why continue to trash the small potatoes when the large ones are so rotten?
Picking lettuce and mowing lawns is so... yesterday.
(1) President McCain
(2) President Obama
(3) President Clinton
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What, pray tell, does that have to do with the fact that a commercial fishing outfit was busted for illegals? Commercial fishing vessels have NOTHING in common with the "yachting community," except for apparently hiring illegals.
It's not just yachts - the rich people and their paid servants in the Congress are definitely getting out of hand.
Maybe we should see if the current penalties can be "boosted" a bit - maybe turn hiring an illegal alien into a capital crime - bet that would make it a tad moire "self enforcing".
The rule of law is paramount for the survival of a free society. Seeing our nation's "leaders" with their call for amnesty last Summer wink at flagrant law violation has helped to erode the credibility of our government and the legitimacy of their governance better than any terrorist or communist under the former Soviet Union could ever have hoped to do.
Liar. At the very least, the Feds should have been deporting ILLEGAL aliens since 9-11. And... built a wall, not a fence, seven years ago.
To keep these people out:
Instead, look forward to another of this someday. It's just a matter of time:
It’s like, “what do you call 100 lawyers chained together and tossed in the ocean?”
—A good start.
>U.S. Coast Guard officials boarded the Peabodys’ boats at least 13 times from 2003 to 2007 and issued only warnings when illegal aliens were found aboard.<
>The Peabodys cooperated with prosecutors and worked out a plea deal, agreeing to the hefty fines and forfeitures.<
This is a bullsh*t story. The trial, fines and penaties are to impress upon GI’s not to use gov’t computers for the benefit of a taxpayers private business nor should taxpayers ask for such privileges.
BUMP!
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