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California economy depends on undocumented workers
San Jose Mercury ^ | January 2, 2018 | Kevin de León

Posted on 01/02/2018 6:12:33 AM PST by artichokegrower

The video is difficult to watch, even for the hardest heart. A dash-cam video published in The Intercept shows a young mother weeping and pleading with a Texas state trooper who has just called the Border Patrol on the father of her 5-month-old daughter.

“No, they are going to take him, sir,” she begs the trooper who pulled her over for a broken taillight, but to no avail. “They are taking everybody.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aliens
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To: central_va; artichokegrower; JayGalt

Kevin de Leon (the author) is a Mexican politician serving in the CA senate.

From Wikipedia...

“In testimony provided before the California Senate’s Public Safety Committee, de León stated that “half of my family” is residing in the United States without documented status:

“…I can tell you half of my family would be eligible for deportation under [President Donald Trump’s] executive order, because if they got a false Social Security card, if they got a false identification, if they got a false driver’s license prior to us passing AB60 (a law said to make California a ‘sanctuary state’), if they got a false green card, and anyone who has family members, you know, who are undocumented knows that almost entirely everybody has secured some sort of false identification. That’s what you need to survive, to work. They are eligible for massive deportation.”

So where do you think his loyalties lie?


41 posted on 01/02/2018 7:55:16 AM PST by aquila48
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To: artichokegrower

The sound of the ever-growing cancerous blackhole known as California is deafening....

What is more amazing is how most Californians are allowing California to turn into a blackhole cesspool.


42 posted on 01/02/2018 8:03:26 AM PST by cranked
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To: aquila48

De Leon is California’s LEGAL PUBLIC enemy #1.


43 posted on 01/02/2018 8:15:32 AM PST by Republic Rocker
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To: artichokegrower

It’s hardly worth mentioning, we have seen it so often, but I will since most freepers are good people ... as usual the left reverts to its default argument: pathos.
There isn’t anything logical that would make the USA maintain de facto slavery, and there’s nothing ethical about it, certainly, so the left again has to get sloppy.
Tears dry quickly. No sale. The illegals have to go back.
All of them.


44 posted on 01/02/2018 8:18:04 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: artichokegrower

45 posted on 01/02/2018 8:18:16 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: artichokegrower

THIS author is running for Diane Feinstein’s Senate position.


46 posted on 01/02/2018 8:20:23 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: aquila48

Excellent work at connecting & sharing the dots. Thank you.


47 posted on 01/02/2018 8:29:26 AM PST by JayGalt (Let Trump Be Trump)
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To: artichokegrower

U.S. taxpayer subsidized illegal aliens doing the jobs Californians don’t want to do are keeping California afloat. Nice.


48 posted on 01/02/2018 8:30:57 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
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To: artichokegrower

Too bad for California. Al Capone’s empire depended on illegal booze, gambling, and prostitution. Were we supposed to feel sorry for him?


49 posted on 01/02/2018 8:34:27 AM PST by IronJack (A)
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To: b4me

Post of the Day!


50 posted on 01/02/2018 8:43:02 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Build KateÂ’s Wall! Never Forget!)
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To: JayGalt

For all intent and purpose he is the official representative of illegals in California. He has their best interests at heart - screw the American citizens!


51 posted on 01/02/2018 8:43:11 AM PST by aquila48
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To: kingu

In contrast to that was the story of my mom’s family.
Her dad was basically a sharecropper all his life. A man with a sick wife, leukemia, and 10 children.
Only four of the children finished high school.

One, her youngest brother walked 20 miles to school each morning and 20 miles home each evening his senior year. He was on track to be class valedictorian.
Each evening and Saturday he worked at the local Piggly Wiggly. He saved every penny he earned.

After high school he was accepted to UVA in Charlottesville, VA.
Each week he walked from Madison Heights, VA to Charlottesville, what is now an hours drive.
He worked in the school cafeteria to make living expenses.
Every weekend he would walk the 60+ miles back home and work at Piggly Wiggly on Saturday.
During the summer he worked and saved every penny he made for the next years tuition.

His fourth year he ran out of money and was forced to drop out.
He then joined the army.
Over the next 8 years he received the training he needed to get a good job.

He went to work for Babcock and Wilcox in the Naval Nuclear Fuels division where he wore a tie and jacket to work and never accumulated one penny of debt for any of his school/training.

And todays snowflakes can’t go to the useless classes they are in debt for because they are “stressed” because their candidate lost an election?
These pukes don’t know what stress is.


52 posted on 01/02/2018 8:46:19 AM PST by oldvirginian (Happy New Year my Deplorable Friends. May President Trump continue to make liberal heads explode!)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

It used to be that way, until the social workers got into the migrant camps, saw their children, and insisted that they be taken into the school system.

Then, one thing led to another, to another, to what hell they have today!


53 posted on 01/02/2018 8:47:45 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Build KateÂ’s Wall! Never Forget!)
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To: artichokegrower

Mentioning Kate Steinle is a hate crime in California.


54 posted on 01/02/2018 9:08:38 AM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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To: artichokegrower
a Texas state trooper who has just called the Border Patrol . . . “They are taking everybody.”

President Trump said we would get tired of winning. I'm not there yet, but the best President of the United States in 30 years is clearly on the right track.

55 posted on 01/02/2018 9:13:48 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: artichokegrower

It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AND MINORITIES, by flooding the labor market with CHEAP, ILLEGAL LABOR.


56 posted on 01/02/2018 9:15:36 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Bull! California depends on US to pay for the aliens!
SO sick of it all.


57 posted on 01/02/2018 9:22:18 AM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: artichokegrower

No it doesn’t.


58 posted on 01/02/2018 9:41:27 AM PST by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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To: kingu

Brilliant, well written post.


59 posted on 01/02/2018 9:43:13 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: Monitor; dfwgator

We should have picked our own damned fruit and veggies (sarc).


60 posted on 01/02/2018 9:59:46 AM PST by the_individual2014
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