Posted on 09/19/2010 3:37:42 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says illegal immigrants do essential work in the U.S. and he has firsthand knowledge of that -- because they fix his house.
Powell, a moderate Republican, urged his party Sunday to support immigration generally because it is "what's keeping this country's lifeblood moving forward."
In an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," he said a path to legal status should be offered to illegal immigrants in the U.S. because they "are doing things we need done in this country."
He added: "They're all over my house, doing things whenever I call for repairs, and I'm sure you've seen them at your house. We've got to find a way to bring these people out of the darkness and give them some kind of status."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
lol.
I would remind folks that Powell, and others just like him politically, were the ones who were feted and elevated in the formerly grand old party throughout the Bush years.
While the voices calling boldly for a necessary return to America’s core principles were ridiculed and silenced.
Mr. Powell, they have status. It’s called illegal invading aliens. What part do you not get?
They may do work around your house but none of them will be working around any property I own.
F you, General. This is my home, my country. You and those like you, and those here illegally will not take my home. I will kill for it, I will die for it, and I'm not alone.
Owner of Riviera Beach company sentenced to 16 months in prison for hiring illegal workers
By JANE MUSGRAVE
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Updated: 2:19 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010
Posted: 7:33 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, 2010
The national battle over the government’s inability to stem the tide of illegal immigrants got personal Friday in a federal courtroom.
U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra bristled at the suggestion that the government’s time would be better spent keeping illegal immigrants from entering the country than prosecuting a suburban West Palm Beach man for hiring them. Business people such as Mark David, Marra said, are a big part of the problem.
“One of the reason they come is because people hire them,” Marra said. “If people wouldn’t hire them they wouldn’t be coming in droves.”
And, prosecutors said, the 48-year-old owner of Sun Deck Concrete not only hired illegal immigrants but he paid them more than $2 million under the table, which meant he didn’t pay nearly $480,000 in payroll taxes or worker’s compensation insurance.
David’s attorney Bruce Reinhart said his client hired the illegal workers at his Riviera Beach firm because they were longtime friends, good workers and he couldn’t find American-born or documented workers to do the job.
Marra didn’t buy it.
“Mr. David said he needed these workers. That means he needed these worker at a price he was willing to pay,” Marra said. “There’s a profit motive here.”
As to Reinhart’s claim that the practice is widespread in the construction industry, Marra said that’s exactly why David had to be punished.
“People need to know there’s serious consequences for this behavior,” he said.
David, who faced a maximum five years in prison, was sentenced to 16 months behind bars. He has already repaid the IRS and the insurance company. The lenient sentence, Marra said, was spurred by the numerous people wrote letters or spoke on David’s behalf.
Among those who spoke at the hearing was Tory Buckley. His daughter, 17-year-old softball player Amanda, was murdered in 2007. Buckley told how David worked tirelessly to make the Amanda J. Buckley Memorial Field of Dreams in Palm Beach Gardens a reality.
“Why did he do it?” Buckley asked, his voice choked with emotion. “His integrity as a man.”
However, an attorney who represented a former Sun Deck supervisor who helped David mask his hiring practices, said his behavior wasn’t always honorable.
When David discovered that Juan Gonzalez was helping the feds unravel the shell companies he had created to hide his illegal business practices, he fired Gonzalez, said David Garvin, who represented Gonzalez.
Prosecutors acknowledged that Gonzalez, 49, of West Palm Beach, had helped them build the case. Gonzalez apologized for being involved in the scheme. He didn’t ask for mercy.
Still, Marra said, because of his cooperation he would spend less time behind bars than his former boss. He sentenced him to 10 months in prison.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/owner-of-riviera-beach-company-sentenced-to-16-896595.html
The applicable criminal statute. Federal Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/AidAbetUnlawfulSec8USC1324.html
This is nothing more that Political Class Corruption at its best; well timed to play distraction for his favored Obamination…who unilaterally took it upon himself to delete the word “Creator” from the Constitution.
So now the political class will be coming forward to hire everyone who is not a legitimate immigrant or citizen in support of undermining America. Although I suspect he is running cover for someone else or some other political agenda…why else would he even bring this up, if he knew and paid the taxes no one would be the wiser.
Everyone that knowingly hires an illegal is complicit in the horrific exploitation that migrants experience at the hands of the cartels and coyotes, such as the recent slaughter of the 72 Central and South Americans found in that mass grave.
Blood on YOUR hands, Mr. Secretary.
Ironic?
“They’re all over my house, doing things whenever I call for repairs, and I’m sure you’ve seen them at your house.”
Actually no. My repairman, yardman and housekeeper are all legal, being as my husband’s family arrived here in 1630 and mine made it a few years later by 1650.
I am wondering the same thing.
You are sooo part of the PROBLEM.
Legal immigrants and AMERICANS go without so you can have illegals crawling all over your house because you don’t want to pay competitive wages.
Cheap bast-rd.
i hope rush doesn’t call him a steaming shovel full...
How insulting the those hardworking unemployed Americans.
AA. And I'm not talking about staying sober.
Evidently Powell no longer considers his Oath valid.
And to think that there were more than a few FReepers on this site that thought he would be a great republican nominee for president.I believe his true colors are showing.
THE affirmative action general is too cheap to pay good wages.
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