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Florida Democrat: Without Immigration Reform, Where Will We Get Our Landscapers and Maids?
http://freebeacon.com ^ | february 25, 2014

Posted on 02/25/2014 2:05:17 PM PST by lowbridge

Florida Democratic congressional candidate Alex Sink said immigration reform was important at a Tuesday debate because, without it, it would be difficult for employers to find people to clean hotel rooms and do landscaping.

“Immigration reform is important in our country,” she said. “We have a lot of employers over on the beaches that rely upon workers and especially in this high-growth environment, where are you going to get people to work to clean our hotel rooms or do our landscaping? We don’t need to put those employers in a position of hiring undocumented and illegal workers.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: alexsink; aliens; amnesty; benjysarlin; florida; haleybarbour; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; luisgutierrez; mexico
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To: cripplecreek

It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t think we should need to reward people for doing their most basic duties. Give them some incentive maybe, but straight up benefits, I don’t think that would be good.

How about this: you want welfare benefits, beyond a short window like 3-6 months, or something earned like a veteran pension or social security, then you give up your voting rights for the duration. You won’t be contributing to the tax revenue, so you shouldn’t have a say in how it is spent. That costs us nothing and can only improve the plight of the country.


41 posted on 02/25/2014 4:02:56 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: TigersEye

42 posted on 02/25/2014 4:24:45 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

In Hillary’s America, Gandhi would be confined to managing a convenience store.

Thanks lowbridge.

The other one (now locked):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3126982/posts


43 posted on 02/25/2014 4:36:02 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: GeronL

Alex IS a walking, talking parody. That simpering socialist doesn’t remember those Jesse Jackson stories about his days as a “WaitPerson”.


44 posted on 02/25/2014 4:38:05 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: lowbridge
you'll have to pay good healthy wages to your slaves....

these animals want good cheap labor no matter what so they can live their silver spoon lives....

PAY UP YOU BUMS....

45 posted on 02/25/2014 4:42:10 PM PST by cherry
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To: lowbridge
She needs to be fired!
Hopefully we Floridians can get that done this year.There are plenty more out there just like her, and they all need to be fired from elected office, and then we can go after the unelected bureaucrats.

We have plenty of Florida citizens willing and able to do those jobs.
Enforce ALL the labor laws already on the books, and most of the illegal employer corruption will cease to exist.
If a landscaping or hotel business can't operate without breaking labor laws,they SHOULD go out of business.

46 posted on 02/25/2014 4:43:48 PM PST by sarasmom (Extortion 17. A large number of Navy SEALs died on that mission. Ask why.)
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To: GladesGuru

bump


47 posted on 02/25/2014 4:50:56 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: lowbridge

Alex Sink you mean you hire ILLEGALS to do your landscaping in your real house (which is not in the 13th)?


48 posted on 02/25/2014 5:37:59 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (2014: The Year of DEAD RINOS)
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To: lowbridge

I have a maid and two landscapers. None are illegal....not even foreign.

You find them by asking friends and neighbors.

By the way, I live in Florida.

Don’t believe the libs for a minute.


49 posted on 02/25/2014 6:05:07 PM PST by jch10 (John Beohner has got to be removed from the Speaker position.)
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To: lowbridge

The unemployment rate among Hispanics MADE LEGAL last time is sky high. Maybe this ‘humanitarian’ can hire some of the Hispanics already here - and legal...


50 posted on 02/25/2014 7:51:13 PM PST by GOPJ ({David} "Gregory, usually as alert and twitchy as a squirrel, flat-lined." Richard Cohen NYT)
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To: lowbridge
Florida Democratic congressional candidate Alex Sink said immigration reform was important at a Tuesday debate because, without it, it would be difficult for employers to find people to clean hotel rooms and do landscaping.

Why do I feel the old St. Petersburg Times will ignore this story?

51 posted on 02/25/2014 7:53:39 PM PST by GOPJ ({David} "Gregory, usually as alert and twitchy as a squirrel, flat-lined." Richard Cohen NYT)
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To: lowbridge

If you give them amnesty, they will no longer work as your landscaper or maid, you dumb a**.


52 posted on 02/25/2014 8:05:16 PM PST by Let's Roll (Save the world's best healthcare - REPEAL, DEFUND Obamacare!)
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To: GeronL
The reason 'illegals' are chosen over legals is they're not paid squat - and they don't complain because they're afraid.

But they hang in hoping to be made legal. As soon as they're 'legal' they get better jobs - aren't as 'grateful' for being treated like crap - and a new bunch is brought in to be exploited. Oops, not 'exploited' I mean treated with great kindness by humanitarian liberals.

53 posted on 02/25/2014 8:06:38 PM PST by GOPJ ({David} "Gregory, usually as alert and twitchy as a squirrel, flat-lined." Richard Cohen NYT)
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To: cripplecreek
I'm in FL and have an 18 year old son that needs a summer job.

AMERICANS FIRST!!!

Alex Sink is a demented offspring of CARNIES, a perpetual candidate, and a banker class thief who put millions of dollars in overdraft fees from the poor and middle class in her pocket.

Her husband is a douchebag too.

Go jump in a lake and SINK sink!!!

54 posted on 02/25/2014 8:14:02 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: sickoflibs; kabar; Carry_Okie; Count of Monte Fisto; Uncle Chip; RoseofTexas; Lisbon1940; ...

Democrat accidentally telling the truth... ping.


55 posted on 02/26/2014 5:18:46 AM PST by GOPJ ({David} "Gregory, usually as alert and twitchy as a squirrel, flat-lined." Richard Cohen NYT)
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To: lowbridge

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/198976-the-dozen-dem-holdouts-on-immigration

Rep. John Barrow (Ga.), another conservative Democrat, is an opponent of the Senate bill’s “amnesty” provisions that create a path to citizenship for eligible residents in the U.S. illegally.

Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.) objects to “granting amnesty or any type of legal status which pardons people in violation of our laws,” he said in a statement published on his website.

Democratic Reps. Dan Lipinski (Ill.), Jim Matheson (Utah), Collin Peterson (Minn.), Nick Rahall (W.Va.) and Cedric Richmond (La.) have also not signed on to the House immigration legislation.


56 posted on 02/27/2014 3:27:54 PM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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