Protesters Swarm Beacon Hill, ‘Livid’ Over Illegal Immigration (Boston, I was there!)

Boston.com ^ | 7/26/14 | Justine Hofherr

[cotton1706]

An anti-illegal immigration rally on Beacon Hill outside the State House on Saturday, July 26 was teeming with protesters.

While Bree Sison of CBS Boston estimated that the gathering drew hundreds of people, Jeff Kuhner, the host of WRKO’s The Kuhner Report, who organized the rally, put the number closer to 10,000 people.

People carrying signs that said “Deport illegals,” and “Americans before illegals” stood just outside the State House from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Kuhner told Boston.com that he himself is a legal immigrant.

Kuhner came to the United States in the 1990s on a work visa as he worked towards a Ph. D. Still a Canadian citizen, he was issued a green card in 2006. Kuhner said he is currently in the process of becoming a naturalized citizen.

“I’ve never seen any kind of a backlash like this before on any issue ever. People in this state are livid. They feel betrayed by the political elite,” Kuhner said of Gov. Deval Patrick’s decision for Massachusetts to offer shelter to unaccompanied minors.

[cotton1706]

“What are.....pressure cooker lookouts?”

That refers to the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon last April, when two “peaceful” Muslims put nails and ball bearings in pressure cookers and set them off.

[nathanbedford]

The Race to the Bottom.

Well, well, well, folks from arguably the farthest left state in the union have taken to the streets to protest illegal immigration but do they know the full extent of what they are protesting?

If you are a small business operating in Massachusetts which requires a workforce with a large unskilled component you have a choice, hire illegal aliens and pay them less than the going wage for Americans or lose out to your competitors who are hiring illegal aliens and shrinking their payroll. Seen in this light, the businessman who breaks the law to stay in business is less unsympathetic than the unpatriotic profiteer he has been depicted to be.

Who then must we look to to stop this vicious cycle, this race to the bottom in which every businessman is driven to hire illegal aliens if he is to survive? Obviously, this calls for the intervention of government because capitalism really only works under the rule of law, it cannot compete successfully against the Mafia. That is why we have government to guarantee a civil society under the rule of law.

Let's look at this on a broader perspective. This businessman is much larger, he owns or manages a large manufacturing company with many thousands of employees but finds that his competitors are beating his prices because they have outsourced. This is not the dry-cleaning operation who hires illegal Hispanic women to move the clothes through the shop, this is a multinational operation in which American workers are competing with Mexican or Asian workers. The foreign workers are willing to work for a fifth or a 10th of the wage necessary to support an American worker.

The race to the bottom goes on, either this American businessman moves his plant offshore where he is not plagued by a host of often unfathomable and conflicting and certainly expensive regulations, one of the highest corporate taxes in the world, union problems, Obamacare, environmental regulations, or he continues to suffer competitive disadvantage which might even force him under. Under these circumstances a CEO who respects his shareholders and regards himself to be their fiduciary, must take his company offshore. If he does so, we call him greedy and unpatriotic.

The real villain in this piece is the liberal politician and those who support him for their own short-term advantage creating an environment in the United States which is so rigged against the businessman, large or small, that he has to either break the law or go offshore.

Nathan Bedford's second Maxim: failed socialism invariably begets more socialism rather than true reform.

These same politicians who create the environment driving business offshore or to illegal practices which inevitably drive down wages and even eliminate jobs now seek to compensate for these consequences with more social engineering. So we have inflated minimum-wage laws popping up. We have Obamacare or its equivalent in many states. We have proliferation of food stamps and many other nostrums which inevitably add more regulation and more tax and exacerbate the plight of our businessman.

By definition, a race to the bottom means there is a bottom and we will crash against it.

[gingerbread]

We need as many people to protest this governments attempt to promote this type of immigration. If enough people in every state rise up and protested against this government’s criminal attempt to shove all of these illegal immigrants down our throats, it will stop them in their tracks.I tell every able American citizen to rise up and fight these criminals in our government with “CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE”

[cotton1706]

“What happened? Did a handsome prince kiss the people of Massachusetts? They seem to have been asleep for the past 100 years.”

We haven’t had a leader to rouse us. We’ve had worthless moderates. But Jeff Kuhner, who took over the morning radio show last year has gotten us all together as one. We had a rally two months ago that forced the government to release Justina Pelletier from their clutches.

[Whenifhow]

Hundreds rally to protest hosting illegal immigrant children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXptImDlZbk
Wow! HUGE protest against illegal immigration in Massachusetts!

http://therightscoop.com/wow-huge-protest-against-illegal-immigration-in-massachusetts/

JEFF KUHNER RALLY, SAT. JULY 26, 2014 64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbYR9OgcFFo

[nathanbedford]

Tongue-in-cheek the poster exhorts us to help Obama "Fundamentally Transform" America.

Obama really meant that he wanted not to transform America but to "deconstruct" America according to the Alinsky/Cloward-Piven/Frankfurt School formula.

Destroy everything that holds us together so that he can impose his utopia, or as the poster says, "socialism".

[Stormdog]

“The Establishment candidate for governor, Charlie Baker, loser from 2010, refused to show up.”

Charlie Baker.. The choice of the MA GOPe AKA the “republican wing” of the MA Demonrats.

GO MARK FISHER!!!

[Gay State Conservative]

Then why do the vote liberal?

There's serious talk that Republicans can take two of our nine seats this November.The last time a Republican filled one of our House seats was about 20 years ago.

[Guenevere]

Thanks.............of course!

[Mears]

I’m in MA and didn’t even know about this.

Where did these people get the info re: the protest?

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[BeadCounter]

Read the replies, a Radio Host it sounds like, Jeff Kuhner called the people to turn out.

[LongWayHome]

The GOP in Mass has 14% of the registered voters. Don’t matter much how the elections are run. Can’t do much of anything with that number.

[cotton1706]

“I’m in MA and didn’t even know about this.

Where did these people get the info re: the protest?”

Do you listen to WRKO?

[Mears]

“Do you listen to WRKO?”

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No,but I will now.

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[trisham]

I don’t. Reception is terrible out here.

[PGalt]

WOOOHOOOO cotton1706! OUTSTANDING! Activism BUMP!

[sergeantdave]

Great poster art, 4Liberty. More, please.

[Boston Blackie]

Just watched NECN news and NOT A DAMN WORD about the protest!

[MulberryDraw]

Thanks for this post. Very encouraging. So, I wonder if they could “swarm” Martha’s Vineyard in a couple of weeks. :)

[cotton1706]

You can listen online. The Jeff Kuhner show, 6-10 am.