Posted on 07/24/2008 5:43:32 AM PDT by SJackson
Myles Gladstone is the vice president of Human Resources at Miller & Long Co., a Maryland-based concrete subcontractor that has programs in place to help immigrants integrate into the workplace.(CNSNews.com) – Deported criminals are more violent after learning how to use semi-automatic weapons while in the United States, said an official from a Maryland company with a workforce that is 60 percent Hispanic.
Myles Gladstone, vice president of human resources at Miller & Long, a concrete construction firm with headquarters in Bethesda, Md., was speaking at a roundtable discussion hosted by the Americans Society and Council of the Americas (ASCA) on Wednesday. The company highlighted its Hispanic Integration Initiative, a project aimed at engaging private sector businesses in helping immigrants assimilate into the workplace.
Gladstone said he makes frequent trips to Central America to help relatives of employees.
“The situation, particularly in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador is getting worse because of our unemployment here,” Gladstone said. “Because a lot of gang members are being sent back and being deported, and guess what? They’re going back, the difference from when they were there before but now they are going back, they know how to use semi-automatic weapons because they learned up here. And now they are back there and there is no work.”
Gladstone said these criminals are even more dangerous after spending time in the United States.
“They become much more proficient at being criminals after their experience here,” he said.
Gladstone was joined at the roundtable by Susan Minushkin, deputy director of the Pew Hispanic Center, who spoke about the center’s research on the social and demographic characteristics of Hispanics in the United States, including figures that show those living here number 46 million, a population that has tripled since 1980 and is predicted to triple again by 2050.
Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at ASCA, said the group’s initiative is designed to bring positive change to a reality that is often portrayed as negative in today’s society.
“The inspiration for this really came about when looking at the current wave of immigration and thinking about our founder, David Rockefeller,” Sabatini said. “When you think about previous waves of immigration in the 19th and 20th century, there are some very large titans of industry – Andrew Carnegie, Henry Ford, the Rockefellers – who really filled a very large role in supporting universities … assimilation programs and the like at a time when no one is really stepping forward in a similar way today.”
Sabatini added that ASCA’s partnering with companies in the private sector, including Northrop Grumman Corporation, Wal-Mart, and the Coca-Cola Company to promote its workplace integration initiative has made it clear U.S. businesses are providing support to immigrant workers.
Businesses put in place programs that included English as a second language classes, help with higher education opportunities, financial literacy classes and programs to encourage civic participation.
When asked by CNSNews.com if the businesses taking part in the initiative used the E-Verify program to determine a potential employee’s legal status, two corporate officials responded.
E-Verify (formerly the Basic Pilot/Employment Eligibility Verification Program) is an online system operated jointly by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration.
Gladstone said the program was “helpful” but “flawed” and Bob Merchant, vice president of New Orleans Operations for Northrup Grumman, said government contracts require his company to make certain workers are properly documented.
Sabatini said he hoped the discussion would help “what is a very difficult climate today concerning immigration.”
“This is an issue I think we can all agree on, which is that immigrants are here to stay, and we need to find ways to integrate them,” he said.
Starting today, we should cease deporting criminals and gang members, and provide an opportunity for those already deported from the US to return and ply their trade.
Shame on us for exporting our corrupt , gun loving culture to the shining lights of the world (criminal).
Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, criminals never knew about firearms there, they mostly use spears. What a moron.
Such basic 'training' takes, what? 10 seconds?
Stupid is the world.
Sounds like a good reason for capital punishment
Oh, OK then. We’ll just stop deporting them.
Don't tell me...let me guess...um, some human rights group is going to sue somebody (or somebodies), right?
Let's make sure that the next time these folks visit Latin America to "help" that it's a one way trip. The best way got them to help these folks is to live there. Meanwhile the rest of us can concentrate on helping out own.
As for the bad guys learning about guns...lets shoot them, then they can learn the ultimate lesson about firearms.
Seems to me the Americans Society and Council of the Americas (ASCA) should therefore OPPOSE bringing immigrants in to the country so they will not learn this devastating skill. They can stay home where semi-automatic weapons do not exist.
Let me make sure I have this right.
We allow illegal immigrants to come here and work.
They involve themselves in criminal behavior.
They get deported.
They are violent back in their nation of origin.
And we’re to blame?
Pardon me while I pull out my whackadoo list of things I couldn’t give a siite about and add one more thing to it.
Well here in the U.S. these damned illegals have caused enoung crime damage. Glad some of these criminals can go back to from whatever craphole they came from to ply their learned trades.
Just when you thought the left couldn’t get any more ridiculous.
OK, so take ‘em out back and shoot them!
>>>> Deported criminals are more violent after learning how to use semi-automatic weapons while in the United States<<<
Well that is either a compliment or an insult. Not sure which. But apparently, our US gangs offer better training than the private security firms in Central America that train their gang members.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1483299/posts
..summary execution is the only way we will ever get a handle on the gangs and violent criminals.
Putting them in jail or deporting them is only inviting further mayhem from these people.
Harsh...you bet...the criminals have no compassion or mercy. Why should we give them any consideration?
Hmmmm....workforce 60% hispanic
but there's still PLENTY of hispanic...
" gang members being sent back and being deported."
Seems like their "Hispanic Integration Initiative" isn't working very well.
As a traveller to Central America I can say that without a doubt there are plenty of weapons on the street (often in plain view) regardless of what happens in the US.
Even hotel doormen pack heat.
LOL!...Jeeez, just don’t print that in Spanish.
Hmmm, gang members become more violent with experience.
Latin America finally made it to first place in something!!
The biggest whiners on earth. They are masters at the blame game.
I agree.
I guess blaming the U.S. is better than realizing your leadership and citizens can’t produce a better nation than they have.
Not a one of these nations can touch our success, but they all know better than us.
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