Warnings offered in English, Spanish at (TN) work sites

Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | November 13, 2007 | Adam Crisp

[trumandogz]

However, you said that the illegals pour into Tennessee for free schools but you also say that they do not value education.

Why would they come all the way to Tennessee for free schools if they did not value education.

You also said that they pour into Tennessee for Welfare but then you say they work doing construction.

Which is it? Do they come here to work or to be on Welfare?

[Tennessee Nana]

There may be some merit to your statement as long as you are suggesting that the English speakers who were not born in the US are NOT US citizens...

[CottonBall]

Why are Americans not hired for this work?

you know the answer to that one ;)

Here in Mexifornia, illegals make up a huge part of the construction labor. Lennar and KB pay substandard wages - but ask sky high prices for their houses. They get a make a huge profit, while passing on the costs of health care and education to the tax payers. They NEED to be punished.

[Tennessee Nana]

If their “children” (regardless of age and relationship...who checks?)are enrolled in our schools, they can apply for all the other free bennies....

[CottonBall]

Here in California, I find it takes longer to find what I’m seeking at Home Depot Stores because every single sign and label is presented in English and Spanish.

Lucky! Here in Bakersfield, they are getting to be more and more in Spanish ONLY. We'll be following the 'white flight' group and leaving ASAP!

[trumandogz]

No, I am simply stating that that there are a lot of natural born U.S. citizens that are illiterate.

As for me, English was not my first language but I learned it soon after moving to the States. However, I was lucky, I was young, my family spoke English and I lived in an English speaking community.

However, I can take you to Greek communities in Chicago or Polish communities in New York where you will find second and third generation Americans that cannot speak the English Language.

[Tennessee Nana]

Bakersfield...in the Central Valley...right?

Where many of the Dust Bowl refugees went...

A big part of Americana gone for good...

[CottonBall]

You also said that they pour into Tennessee for Welfare but then you say they work doing construction. Which is it? Do they come here to work or to be on Welfare?

Both. Without 'documentation', ie valid SSNs, their earnings cannot be tracked. So they both work under the table, while their girlfriends and/or wives collect welfare.

[CottonBall]

Right, like in ‘The Grapes of Wrath’.

Now, it’s just another barrio...

[CottonBall]

But what was even more disturbing is that there seemed to be a sense of arrogance and what can perhaps best be described as an "ethnic chauvinism" among the Spanish speaking people that was never there before. It was as if they didn't care anymore or were not concerned to assimilate or to speak English, but it was deeper than that... they seemed to feel justified or protected for refusing to assimilate.

You've described very accurately exactly what is going on in Mexifornia as well. The best those of us that are left here can do is.....get the hell out! Some states are a lost cause, due to decades and decades of invasion and overbreeding.

[trumandogz]

So they both work under the table, while their girlfriends and/or wives collect welfare.

Yes, the welfare system is broken and there are there are citizens that cheat the welfare system as well.

[AuntB]

It could be, and who are you to say that’s wrong or distasteful or unAmerican. It is the inevitable trend of demographics so you better get used to it and accept the fact that 99% of Mexican immigrants work their asses off for a fraction of what you were given at birth.

NO!

[AuntB]

. You see if I would have went to Mexico instead of Texas, the Spanish speaking people there would at least try to speak to me and serve me. They would make an attempt to speak English and the banks and shops in Mexico would have gladly accepted my US passport as an ID.

You are so right about that. Sadly.

[AuntB]

However, you said that the illegals pour into Tennessee for free schools but you also say that they do not value education.

Fifty percent Hispanic drop out rate.

[AuntB]

However, I can take you to Greek communities in Chicago or Polish communities in New York where you will find second and third generation Americans that cannot speak the English Language.

But were not putting up signs for them or being run out of businesses because we can't speak their language, are we?

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>In Tennessee, four Hispanic workers died at construction sites in 2006. That represents a fifth of all the deaths from construction site accidents in the state, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<<

Probably they meant to write, “four Hispanic workers died at this construction site in 2006.” Those 2 sentences as written are contradictory.

>>Mr. Franco said he is serious about safety.<<

That’s what they all say.

When I was young I drove a taxi in Houston. They called me to a can factory to pick up a Hispanic (probably illegal) man whose finger was cut off in an accident, to take him to the hospital. They were too cheap to call an ambulance.

Apparently none of the other drivers wanted to pick him up because they were afraid he would bleed too much in the cab.

[trumandogz]

Sure, but there are communities in the U.S. where the drop out rate of US born students is greater than 50%.

[trumandogz]

But were not putting up signs for them or being run out of businesses because we can't speak their language, are we?

Yes we do. Take a walk around Greenpoint Brooklyn and you will find lots of signs in Polish.

[expatguy]

http://laotze.blogspot.com/2005/06/crossing-of-rubicon-whoever-saves-one.html

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>Sure, but there are communities in the U.S. where the drop out rate of US born students is greater than 50%.<<

And what do you think is the % of Latin Americans who finish the 12th grade and then come here illegally? You don’t count someone who stops going to school after the 6th grade as a “dropout?”