Posted on 04/08/2005 1:57:23 PM PDT by backhoe
I well understand- I can't go far from home- old dog is ailing, my Mom-in-law is dying, and the wife-unit's none too well, either, so I- except for my MIL, the oldest & most scarred and beat-up member of my extended family- have become defacto medic and gofer.
I'd love to do more, but for now, see tagline...
Illegal alien activists secured a protest permit in Washington, D.C., for their ballyhooed May 17 Amnesty Rally yesterday. They expected 100,000 people to come.
I asked yesterday if the MSM would provide fair coverage of the demonstration.
Tim Graham has the answer. As expected.
Officials in Carrboro, North Carolina, want to let illegal immigrants vote. Allahpundit links to this page, demonstrating that when you find one suicidally stupid idea, theres usually a flock of them nearby. link: 54 comments
Does this one pass the CommonSense meter?
illegal immigrant = legal vote?
Senate blocks effort to limit benefits to immigrants--Their votes are increasingly meaningless, to the vast majority of American citizens, left and right...
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Tim Chapman reported last week:
The Senate's march towards Amnesty First, Enforcement Later (Never?) goes on.
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Mary Katherine Ham can't believe it:
MKH links to the vote info here.
Start dialing.
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Meanwhile, illegal aliens may soon be voting in North Carolina.
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And a flashback on Social Security, illegal aliens, and the pandering (or as Kaus says, "Hispandering") Bush administration from 2004: [T]he Bush administration appears set this week to turn the ailing government pension program into an international relief fund for illegal alien workers who used counterfeit Social Security cards and stolen numbers to secure illegal jobs.
The bureaucrats call this scheme "totalization." Try total prostration.
Four youths who brutally gang-raped a 16-year old girl in a Berlin park and filmed it with a cell phone have been freed by a German judge: Shock in Berlin as suspected rapists freed. link: 53 comments "...eurabia, the land where self-defense is a crime & where most yuripions would think me a barbarian because I'm putting in for a CCW permit this month..."
Illegal Immigrants awarded ranch of property defender
Posted By Derek Bargeld On 4th May 2006 @ 20:22 In Top Stories, Derek Bargeld, Immigration | 5 Comments
Immigration Reform...What Say You Now FReepers?
Sins of omission
***scroll for updates...Americans lining up to do the job...***
Yesterday, the Los Angeles Times ran a piece of open-borders propaganda masquerading as journalism, which featured a Riverside, Calif., landscaper named Cyndi Smallwood who claims she can't find workers to dig ditches even at $34 an hour.
The claim seems preposterous, but the Times assures us that Smallwood has no ideological ax to grind. She is "ambivalent on immigration reform," the Times reports. Just an ordinary landscaper, you know.
But it turns out there's a tiny bit more to the story that the LA Times isn't telling you. Reader Christopher L. wrote this morning to point out that a simple Google search shows that Cyndi Smallwood is president of the Orange County chapter of the California Landscape Contractors Association, and is a member of the association's "Immigration Task Force." The activist group opposes the "Punitive Immigration Reform Bill Proposed by Rep. Sensenbrenner."
Eagle-eyed Conor Friedersdorf also followed up:
An all too common form of hack journalism consists of going to an interest group, finding a useful character for an anecdotal lead and conveniently passing the source off as though theyre just a regular citizen on the sidelines of the debate. Its a dirty little secret of journalism, but most hack journalists who do it at least have the decency to slip in a mention of the persons affiliation.In this article the Times goes a step further, inserting obviously false language suggesting no, actually stating outright that Smallwood is ambivalent about immigration reform. The suggestion is that this is a regular person, so you shouldnt discount what shes saying as you might if she was someone pushing an agenda.
Turns out Smallwood is quite a busy, savvy p.r. agent for the open-borders lobby. Conor links to articles here and here and here on her political activities, and observes:
If traveling to Washington DC to lobby for a trade association, planting pro-guest worker program quotes in multiple press outlets and backing a specific faction in the immigration reform debate is considered ambivalence on immigration reform Id like to see the Times version of an activist!
I would like the LA Times to explain its failure to disclose these relevant details. Was this laziness and incompetence on the part of the reporter? Or something else? Will they go back and let readers know the full picture of who this woman is? What else aren't they telling us?
And while they're at it, why don't the Times' editors press a little harder on this:
The other employees are Latino and, as far as Smallwood can tell, all in the country legally. Her employees need driver's licenses and the ability to move through freeway checkpoints near the border, which tend to eliminate any with fake papers.
Since they are subsidizing this government contractor, the taxpayers of California might like to get a straight answer on the immigration status of Smallwood's employees. Driver's license requirements, of course, are no barrier for illegal aliens to get jobs. Hello:
Finally, the Times notes that as a public works contractor, Smallwood is subject to state prevailing wage laws. There are, doubtlessly, a thicket of other requirements (years of experience needed to fill supervisor positions, perhaps?) that might help explain Smallwood's alleged inability to find legal American employees.
Maybe the LA Times could find out and report back on the other side of the story. For once.
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Update: A reader e-mails:
Smallwood was on Laura Ingraham's show this am. What the LA Times didn't report was the $34 per hour job was the prevailing wage on state contract projects, and she had two (yes two) openings for that high paying position, which requires (per Smallwood) 2-5 years experience in landscape construction, the ability to read plans/blueprints and the ability to operate a bobcat, ditch witch or similar ditch digging equipment.From my listener's perspective, she was reasonably forthcoming when questioned by Ms. Ingraham, so I can only assume she would have been forthcoming to the Times writer if the same questions were asked. That, of course leads to two conclusions: (1) the Times staffer was too lazy to ask simple questions; or (2) the piece was an agenda-driven article...never mind-knowing the Times, it was likely both.
Update 2: Inside Riverside blogs another key point:
If anyone bothers to read past the headline and first paragraph they will learn that Cyndi already has 12 employees. She says all of her employees are legally allowed to work here.So what is the problem?
The real problem appears to be Cyndi's preferred method of advertising her $34 an hour job American's won't do; word of mouth. I'm sure she is reaching a vast audience do that.
Now you may be wondering why anyone would pay $34 an hour for landscaping. Well it's not up to Cyndi. You see she does contract work for the State of California and they set the pay rates.
This afternoon Cyndi was on the John and Ken Show. She told them that since the article appeared in the LA Times this morning she has received over 30 resumes. Yep, 30 resumes in just a few short hours for a job American's won't do. Cyndi may want to re-think her not-so-hi-tech word of mouth advertising campaign.
John and Ken took some calls from the audience. Cyndi, who seems like a nice lady, appeared to get flustered that everyone who called in wanted the job.
At one point she asked a caller why he had never stopped on the side of the road and asked how much the guys shoveling dirt were making.
Well who in their right mind would do that? I always assumed the guys in the bright orange vests on the side of the highway were prisoners on some sort of work release program. Walking up to them and asking "Hey, how much ya making diggin that there hole fella" would get you a fist in your face for your trouble. Seriously, who knew these guys were making $34 an hour? It makes you wonder how much the 5 Cal-Trans guys standing around watching the one Cal-Trans guy dig a hole are making. It also partially explains why California has a $100 billion plus budget.
If you are looking for work send Cyndi your resume. Her fax number is 951-734-6565
Against all odds, the immigration debate gets stupider. Plus: dont fence me in, gringo! "What pathetic rubbish."
Senate Votes English as 'National Language' (Ambien Dems crash car into Bush's barrier)
Fake I.D.'s complicate arrests of illegals--Like GW and our screwball Senators give a flip. Our Senators just gave these maggots a big break on document fraud by allowing them to search for SS taxes they paid under a fraudulent identity. So down the road they'll get to leech off our SS system
We are nation of laws... and that applies to immigrants
Links to every article ever printed about our southern border -- Thanks, Backhoe, great work.
Appreciate the kind words & ping.
The open borders crowd is getting more aggressive, recruiting hundreds of moonbats to help illegal immigrants enter the United States. link: 62 comments |
Societal Transformation, Not Just Immigration
Latin Flags Prominent At Forum For Democrat Assembly Candidates
Democrat Assembly candidates (L to R) John Alden, Alex Easton-Brown, Cynthia Murray
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005237.htm
I don't know how many times I've pointed out that amnesty for illegal aliens = amnesty for their employers. The Washington Times spells it out today in "Senate bill protects employers of illegal aliens from penalties"--and the Orwellian open-borders double-speakers huff and buff and try to bluff:
How stupid of the Republican elite to put themselves on the opposite side and give the likes of Byrd such an opening. Message to Arlen Specter: What part of amnesty don't you understand?
One GOP Senator with his head screwed on straight is Jeff Sessions. Can we have 100 of him, please?
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Related:
David Orland observes: Amnesty, alas, is the least of it.
Allah tracks Vicente Fox's U.S. victory tour. Hell address his constituents on Thursday afternoon, then let Schwarzenegger kiss the ring at a state dinner. Arnolds got no choice, really: the stench of identity politics hangs heavy in the air and Democratic leaders are doing some heavy breathing. Time for some turbo-charged Hispandering, as Kaus might say. Drudge has all the best immigration links today, including the adversary cultures version of Minutemen, how illegal immigration has now reached the scale of population transfer, and the hysterical xenophobia of Mexican law compared to its American counterpart. Ill add a few, though. Heres Waffles explaining why he was for a fence before he was against it. Dont laugh too loudly: flip-flopper is a bipartisan charge these days, and rightly so. Meanwhile, illegal immigrants from Central America are taking civics lessons so that they can pass as citizens. Of the United States? Guess again: Finally, heres Mark Steyns latest, which complements the Chronicle piece in emphasizing the sheer scale of whats happening and the WaPo piece in imagining what role identity politics might play in it:
Mark Levin weighs in on Republican stupidity and presidential irresponsibility.
The hypocrisy of the Mexican government is stunning, on a global scale: Mexico Works to Bar Non-Natives From Jobs. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 57 comments
On Immigration, are we better off now than when we had Democrats in office? We should tell el Presidente Fox that the U.S. will enforce the same sort of immmigration laws that Mexico enforces on its southern border.
Just legalize all illegal activity and all the illegal immigration problem and all other crime problems disappear.
Mexico is corrupt and hypocritical to the max. Not news.
However not enough people are aware of Washington plans to "integrate" with Mexico -- political unification in the style of the EU.
Did we vote for this? Certainly not, yet many Washington elites, led by the President, are full steam ahead.
The Plan to Replace the Dollar With the 'Amero'
Fascinating stuff down at ground level. Mexican culture would be enthralling in its weirdness if it weren't all coming here. Mexican unions were almost always another arm of the PRI. Looky here and then look at this. Then, check this out.
Black Americans Oppose Illegal Alien Amnesty; Urge Passage of Enforcement Only Bill in the Senate
Bush administration steers immigrants away from English-- The user manual, blueprint and Bible on this has been published for the world to see.
A quick quote:
Develop teacher exchange and training programs for elementary and secondary school teachers. This would assist in removing language barriers and give some students a greater sense of North American identity. Greater efforts should also be made to recruit Mexican language teachers to teach Spanish in the United States and Canada.
That's from page 30 of the linked document.
Mexicos Southern Flank: a Crime-Ridden Third U.S. Border
America Will they still love her in the morning
Feds Break Up Alleged Amnesty Scam-- So, they arrested the Senate?
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