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POLL: Would you support a temporary work visa for illegal aliens?
Lou Dobbs ^ | 12/25/03

Posted on 12/25/2003 10:19:48 AM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:37 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Would you support a temporary work visa for illegal aliens?


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; bleedinghearts; poll; pollamnesty
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To: DustyMoment
Pretty much every illegal alien/immigration poll looks like this.
121 posted on 12/25/2003 4:38:56 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak (Stop the open borders death cult)
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To: 4.1O dana super trac pak
I don't think the Bureau of Labor and Economic statistics keeps accurate records on this subject.

I can only go by what my eyes tell me and my life's experience. Just wait a year as the economy fully bounces back. You won't even be able to get a building contractor to call you back. Dozens of pages of want adds will go unanswered. Prices will start to skyrocket. You will try to buy some item you have wanted for a while and they will tell you it's on backorder and you will have to wait ... because they don't have the labor to build the things fast enough.

Even now in these slump times owners of busineses will tell you they cannot find highly skilled workers and the kids who come to them don't even understand basic math, decent english, how a tape measure works or how to show up on time.

This is my experience too. We have a very poor labor market in this country and this is much of the reason that business owners turn to willing and energetic Mexicans.
122 posted on 12/25/2003 4:45:39 PM PST by mercy
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To: mercy
OK, you are going by your own eyes and life's experience, fair enough.

Well, there are hundreds of stories on this website alone of how large scale illegal and legal immigration is wrecking neighborhoods, towns, cities, schools, ERs, tax rates, wages...etc.

I am going to go by that, amnesties encourage more illegals, and the last amnesty was a social disaster, you could look that up too.

G'night.

123 posted on 12/25/2003 5:00:26 PM PST by 4.1O dana super trac pak (Stop the open borders death cult)
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To: mercy
Never ceases to amaze me how ready folks are on this site to put words in others mouths. Try reading my posts instead of making them up FOR me. I think I have been pretty clear. >>>>>>>>

I read *your* posts.......your all for 'legalizing' our existing LAWBREAKERS & how EVERYONE benefits from them. (your words, not MINE)

As to my commentsw about leaving the S. Texas area I meant that since she hates Mexicans so much she should get out of there. They aren't going anywhere anytime soon.>>>>>>>>

This poster has posted ONE TIME (& mainly quoted the Bible), NEVER said the word *mexican*, yet you now accuse her (him) of HATING mexicans. Chances are they're just like myself, they don't like LAWBREAKERS of any color.

Even the Pope while visiting mexico told the mexican gov't to "take care of their own indigent people". (gee, ya think the Pope *hates* mexicans too now).


And to the other liar >>>>>>

Now you call ME a liar.......Show me WHERE I lied.
I called you on how great you think the illegals in the country are, & how they should be REWARDED, made legal (true, read your own posts) & I called you on *suggesting* a citizen should move if their area has been INVADED by ILLEGALS (& you did that too).
124 posted on 12/25/2003 7:40:43 PM PST by txdoda ("Navy-brat")
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To: mercy
Check post #92......the word 'mexican', even 'illegal' is NEVER used.

Yet you accuse them of being a "mexican hater" and me of being a "liar" because I don't agree with you that "EVERYONE benefits from illegals".

Maybe you need to read the rules of the forum......then again you probably think 'rules don't apply to you', just as you think our U.S. Laws shouldn't apply to illegals.
125 posted on 12/25/2003 8:01:00 PM PST by txdoda ("Navy-brat")
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To: mercy
But nobody wants to admit that every single one of us benifits from their labor. Every day and most every way

Like your prior post...more gross generalizations.

Taking 8-12+ million illegals and calling them legal to somehow "catch up" will not solve the problem...it will make it dramatically worse.

I never said anything about doing nothing...I just directly and strobngly disagree with your approach which is, according to your own words, only based on what you have seen and what your gut tells you. Programs like yours in the past, on a smaller scale, have failed and failed misreably...irrespective of how touchy-feely they were and how well they sold to a supposed voting block.

There is no reason to believe that a larger program of such a nature for those already here would not fail in a proportionally bigger way.

I believe the program that is based on your gut is based far too much on emotion.

I'm sorry Mexico is a hell-hole...the people in Mexico need to stand up on their own two feet and fix it. If they start doing that, and mean it, we will be in a much better position to help them IMHO. Encouraging the opening of the borders in such a way as you do will do nothing to help Mexico and serve only to further drag us down towards their level.

The answer is to toughen up the laws we already have and start enforcing them. Over a 18-24 month time, if we got serious about it, we could enforce those laws and remove most of the illegals already here form our borders and make it plain that the only way to enter this nation is through the legal proscribed method. As top how much "yopu" may benifit form those existing here...that is far you to decide. You go on and on about how we all benefit immenslely...but there is no evidence other than your own opinion to that point. Many here have expolained to you how we do not benefit...or how they do not benefit and why...you emtoionally negate al;l of that with no reasoned arguement other than that from your perspective "it is so".

You emotional rants that those opposing your "plan" are somehow hateful or unchristian, or that it is never going to happen or work, or just that, rants from your perspective.

,,,and that's just my own opinion on the matter...just like yours has been.

126 posted on 12/25/2003 8:08:12 PM PST by Jeff Head
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To: Allegra
NO. Illegal is illegal.
I don't know how much more simply we can state that.

If they had a permit wouldn't they then be legal and your argument would work in favor of them?

127 posted on 12/25/2003 8:15:04 PM PST by LittleRedRooster
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To: Pa' fuera
even if we did need the labor, we could drop anchor at any friendly third world port in the world and fill up cargo ship after cargo ship with people who
1 -- would be willing to work for a fraction of what Mexicans are paid
2 -- would be thankful for the opportunity, respectful of our laws and traditions, and would be willing to do whatever was necessary to integrate into our society

Please if you could while talking out of your ass name one third world country that fits the description you have indicated. One that will respect our laws and traditions, we have large groups of people in this country now that don't even come close to what you describe and these people have been here for generations.

128 posted on 12/25/2003 8:25:19 PM PST by LittleRedRooster
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To: txdoda; mercy; All
Last night was Christmas Eve mercy. You posted this.

To: All

Here's a little secret for all America:

Wetbacks are here because YOU demand they be here. It's as simple as that. You won't pay for a meal where the restaurant has to rely on all native workers. Price would double.

You won't pay for a house built with all native labor. Or have your yard taken care of or your pool or on and on and on.

And much of the time you sign contracts with contractors who have no insurance on their workers as well because you refuse to pay for that. Little knowing you could lose everything you own by so doing.

I know, I know, it's not true. You would never do that. "It's not me. It's the other guy." Every time.

42 posted on 12/24/2003 7:49:33 PM CST by mercy

Link to thread

I know, I know, it's not true. You would never do that. "It's not me. It's the other guy." Every time.

What exactly do you mean? Are you calling us a bunch of liars?

129 posted on 12/25/2003 8:33:39 PM PST by Missouri
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To: mercy
"owners of busineses will tell you they cannot find highly skilled workers and the kids who come to them don't even understand basic math, decent english, how a tape measure works or how to show up on time."

This is the type of person minimum wage attracts.

130 posted on 12/25/2003 8:46:57 PM PST by B4Ranch (Wave your flag, don't waive your rights!)
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To: mercy; Nea Wood; elli1
Q: Why does the United States Government permit wholesale illegal Mexican immigration?

A: For the workers.

Q: Why does the United States Government need foreign workers (not just Mexicans)?

A: It does not have enough labor force to meet the service sector and other blue collar work sector demands and growth within it's economy.

Q: Why does the United States Government not have enough workers to meet economic demand?

A: Over TWENTY MILLION AMERICAN WORKERS HAVE BEEN ABORTED OVER THE PAST TWENTY YEARS.

Q: If over twenty million American workers have been aborted over the past twenty years, who is going to pay for (read: generate taxes) the Social Security of the baby-boomer generation (now reaching critical mass)?

A: Mexican workers.

Any questions?

131 posted on 12/25/2003 8:50:48 PM PST by Happy2BMe (2004 - Who WILL the TERRORISTS vote for? - - Not George W. Bush, THAT'S for sure!)
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To: Happy2BMe
Q: Why does the United States Government need foreign workers (not just Mexicans)?

A: It does not have enough labor force to meet the service sector and other blue collar work sector demands and growth within it's economy.

Not to much blue collar work anymore with all those manufacturing jobs going overseas.

How about a little supply and demand ? Things would even out after awhile without having to do an end-run around the American people.

132 posted on 12/25/2003 8:57:21 PM PST by Missouri
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To: LittleRedRooster
If they had a permit wouldn't they then be legal and your argument would work in favor of them?>>>>>>

"Permit", "Legal Status", "Regularization", "Amnesty" or any other name they call it, is still a REWARD for breaking U.S laws.

Send them home, to the back of the line, and let them come LEGALLY just as the LEGAL immigrants do.
133 posted on 12/25/2003 9:03:09 PM PST by txdoda ("Navy-brat")
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To: Missouri
"Not to much blue collar work anymore with all those manufacturing jobs going overseas."

It depends on the definition of "blue collar" I guess.

True, imported labor tends to initially be used in the agriculture and service industries, then migrates into better paying sectors of the work force.

What will be the saturation point is anybody's guess.

134 posted on 12/25/2003 9:07:47 PM PST by Happy2BMe (2004 - Who WILL the TERRORISTS vote for? - - Not George W. Bush, THAT'S for sure!)
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To: Happy2BMe
It depends on the definition of "blue collar" I guess.

I work in a large machine shop where communication is important. We'd have a hard time building anything if we had people who did not speak english working there.

135 posted on 12/25/2003 9:23:26 PM PST by Missouri
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To: Missouri
Gee, looks like he just goes from thread to thread *implying* that anyone who disagrees with him is a liar. Thanks for the link.......:o)

Nice he calls folks 'wetbacks', then accuses others of being 'mexican haters'.

Also *sounds* like his life is as 'sheltered' as most of our 'electeds'.

I'd be willing to bet that most of 'middle class' Americans have *struggled* & got by WITHOUT maids, gardeners, & 'pool boys'. (who needs a 'pool boy' if you don't have a pool ??)

Oh well, guess he's lonely in that 4% that 'trust our gov't to do the right thing about illegal immigration'.......
136 posted on 12/25/2003 9:25:20 PM PST by txdoda ("Navy-brat")
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To: Happy2BMe
What will be the saturation point is anybody's guess.

We're well past the saturation point ---- but welfare and all the many government poverty programs are covering that up ---- what happens when you try to cut back on any of these programs? When the food stamp allotment is cut back or free health care is denied? If the welfare class ever had to go out and try and get a job to feed themselves and found there are no jobs at all for them to do.

137 posted on 12/25/2003 9:27:00 PM PST by FITZ
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To: mercy
I'm advocating a controlled foolproof guest-worker program.

Actually I could see that too if it were possible --- but I don't see anything being presented by the current administration that is promoting a foolproof program --- I could see guest workers if the employers were to pay the full cost of their "guest-workers" ---- the full cost of their health care, their education, living expenses, the educational costs, health care costs etc of all the children their "guest-workers" would be bringing over. Or else get the Mexican government to pay for the costs of their citizens here that are not met by the wages they receive.

If the full cost of the "guest-worker" was to be paid though by the employer --- they'd probably decide they weren't cost effective and just go with bringing more illegals in who would still be an enormous expense to the hospitals and schools.

138 posted on 12/25/2003 9:37:37 PM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ
We're well past the saturation point >>>>>>>

We sure are.......funny NO ONE ever adresses the 1-2 MILLION standing around on corners, daily, across the USA. IF they had 'steady jobs' they wouldn't be on the corner, DAILY.

Didn't we just have a thread, with a *sob* story about one man only getting TWO days work per week on his corner??? Now he can't afford to take his YEARLY, MONTH long vacation to mexico for the holidays.

139 posted on 12/25/2003 9:39:06 PM PST by txdoda ("Navy-brat")
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To: txdoda
I think most of the freepers we go up against on these immigration threads may mean well but they are just naive. Its our job to try and educate them about the reality on the subject.

(who needs a 'pool boy' if you don't have a pool ??)

Well, I got a pool and my wife calls me the pool boy (Its a 18 foot dia. above ground pool). Actually I find it kind of relaxing cleaning it. This goes for yardwork, too. I'm real picky about how it looks.

I just don't know where these pro-immigrant/anti-border people get the idea that we're all rich and sitting on our butts having someone else work around our houses.

140 posted on 12/25/2003 9:41:41 PM PST by Missouri
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