Posted on 01/24/2007 5:26:37 AM PST by kellynla
WASHINGTON, D.C. (FSB Magazine) -- To see the latest front in the war over illegal immigration, take a look at Mordechai Orian. The 41-year-old owns Global Horizons, a Los Angeles-based service that supplies seasonal agricultural workers to apple, blueberry, and potato growers across the country. In May, Orian lost one of his biggest clients: Munger Bros., a Delano, Calif., blueberry farm, which decided to use a rival labor supplier, J&A Contracting of Bakersfield, Calif.
Munger Bros. executives say they switched suppliers when Global Horizons failed to live up to its contract, but Orian suspects a different motive. J&A, he says, provides cheaper, illegal workers, scooping workers up on street corners by the vanload and delivering them to farms. He says he has evidence of falsified Social Security cards to prove his assertions. And rather than filing a complaint with the federal government, Orian is taking both Munger and J&A to court.
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Good for him.
I believe there is a solution to the mess. If all the states would give any illegal immigrants one thing - a bus ticket to Washington, DC.
If DC doesn't want to deal with the problem, then let DC deal with the problem.
It would only take a couple hundred bus loads until we start seeing a shift of thinking.
...and the other "businesses" that knowingly hire illegals?
Oh please. How much training is required to pick blueberries and apples??
Reliable? These are people transported by bus, paid by the box or lb.
LOL
Then again, you have moonbats like Kim Propeack of Maryland's CASA complaining about the illegality of arrests when illegals flocked to a van of ICE agents that pulled into a convenience store parking lot. She's whining that the agents had no right to arrest the "six of the men have criminal records in the United States, eight of the men have failed to comply with final removal orders from an immigration judge and one man had been caught at the border on four occasions," according to ICE. [Kim is guilty of practicing liberalism without a clue]. Can you believe that stuff? (See Aliens ask wrong people in van about work. In her world, ICE cannot arrest them, state and local cops can't ... no one can!
More business's should be doing this. Their competitors are underpricing them with illegal exploited labor.
Gob bless Mr. Mordechai Orian. May his lawsuit put a lock on business greed; spin heads at the INS; and puts a plug in the hole illegal Mexicans ( spelled C-R-I-M-I-N-A-L-S ) are leaping from at our border.
We're talking about Kaal-eee-forn-e-ah here. The court will most likely throw the case out before a single hearing, citing lack of jurisdiction or some other silly loophole excuse.
The root for the solution to the problem is in the elimination of illegal alien workers from our land.
I don't see this going anywhere because of the method applied to trying to solve the problem. What can a court do? It can't say to a business. "It's against the law to hire less expensive labor to beat your competition". It can't adjudicate against finding workers on the street ... that's not much different than going to Labor Ready. or some other work-a-day business.
No, the answer is in the Fed's hands ... and they won't do anything.
We're being attacked in this country by the other terrorists ... the ones that destroy our spirit to want to work.
I had occasion in the last year to attempt to get some medical help through the welfare system last year ... 59 yr. old widower w/two minor children at home and a temporary income of less than $1200.00 p/mo. Guess what ... I made too much money for a medical card.
When I counseled with the worker about my case, and was informed of my ineligability, I sarcastically remarked, "Well, if my name was Hernandez and I was a queer, I bet I'd qualify."
The case worker looked at me with serious eyes and told me that not only would I get the medical card, but money and food stamps and a bunch of other services."
She apologized and told me how she was sorry she couldn't help me.
I've since re-established myself (It was going to happen anyway, but the timing of my medical need was bad), and everything is alright now ... but when I see these illegal alien threads, I cringe with anger ... They come in here and flaunt their being here in front of us and the socialists of this nation help them to make little in-roads that keep them here and even establish their 'legitimacy'.
I hope this guy can accomplish something using the court ... but I don't have much faith in the court anymore.
BTTT
Those who bash Bush because he has not magically vanished 12 million people from the US need a reality check. First, it was not bush who let those people in. Second, they have rights, don't you know. No way he has the manpower/means to vanish all of those people. Get real.
"Those who bash Bush because he has not magically vanished 12 million people from the US need a reality check. First, it was not bush who let those people in. No way he has the manpower/means to vanish all of those people."
According to Bush himself, they have DEPORTED 6 MILLION ILLEGALS since he's been in office. And if IKE can do it, so can Bush. If the Bush administration and the Feds can deport six million, they sure as hell can triple their efforts and deport the other 18 million illegals. And because Bush & the Feds have FAILED MISERABLY to secure the borders(both of them) and ports; illegals and Muslim terrorists have continued to enter the country ILLEGALLY for the past five years.
"Second, they have rights?"
The only "rights" these illegals have is the "right" to be treated humanly while being DEPORTED!
'The answer is in the Feds' hands.' -- But, they are actually elected to do what WE ask them to do. So, then, the answers ARE in our hands.
We the People ....
I'm doing well now ... I was just in a bad time and thought I could get some medical help ... I was also told that there was a one year waiting period. I never pursued further ... I just thought that a working class hero really was something to be.
No, you can't get away with that. Just making an analogy is not solving a problem. And I can see that you haven't even wrapped your mind around this one. Just your emotions. Just for fun, look up what it takes to deport someone.
I know how you felt. I have been there. Unfortunately, our social programs are not a safety net for people in a jam. Churches and ngo's fill that need. Government programs are restrained by eligility requirements that keep the destitute down.
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