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This is the way popcorn pops. The heat gets turned up and soon a kernel pops. Then another. Then a couple more. Before you know it there is so much popping one can barely discern the individual pops.
This is how our war against harboring illegals will be won. First one pop. Then several. Then perhaps, to use a word that would make progressives cringe, a sort of “amnesty”; not for the illegals but for employers who wish to avoid prison.
We’re all going to need some popcorn to pop.
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Sorry, but WTH? The only thing I see is the semi-crackdown on illegals (hundred head here, another 50 there) and reports such as this. Sessions gave CA a stern tongue-bath; nothing for the other 5 Sanct. States, or numerous counties.
I have yet to see/hear/read of *ANY* govt employee put through the ringer, let alone hauled off in handcuffs; the list of violations for ‘helping’ illegals being a mile-long.
There’s no ‘link’ between the biz owner and govt employees. There’s not *ONE* way to ‘use the minnow vs. *big* fish’ in this scenario.
Instead of plugging the LEAKS (aka the [illegal] govt carrot(s)], here we have a finger in the crumbling dam, yet again.
In September 2017, Asplundh Tree Service got bent with a $95,000,000 fine for hiring illegals.
That’s pretty serious stuff, and in my opinion long overdue with that company. Schadenfreude does not quite fulfill the feeling I had when I read that headline some months ago.
I have had at least three dealings with Asplundh back in Ohio on my property. They had a contract with AEP keeping ROWs cleared...one of those being an 800’ ROW on my place.
The last event...well, quite the language barrier going on with the four crew when I busted them the first morning for not doing what I had agreed to with the area supervisor. I got the confusion cleared up after the one “lead guy” understood me enough to hand a card with the supervisor’s phone number.
They then proceeded in the course of the next day to drop two trees on a couple of young-ish sugar maples I had rescued from the briars and grape vines many years ago which by then had turned into some very handsome contributors to the landscape.
When I saw that happen I went running and screaming at them. I told them I was calling the supervisor to get them run off. The lead hombre understood just enough that he was willing to barter some work if I did not call.
I pointed to a real big “leaner” of a ash tree that was going to be real byotch to handle myself. I got through to them enough to make it clear if they would drop that ash, I would not call.
What did those most colorful Kentucky ironworkers I used to work around call incompetents like that? Oh yeah...SHEEPKILLERS.
I want more and harsher enforcement too, but it seems that something is being done vis’a’vis illegal criminal aliens.