Mexican Immigrants Face New Set of Fears

New York Times ^ | 10/15/01 | Sam Dillon

[poweqi]

Sure when the going gets rough they leave.....Good,get out!

[junta]

Mega tonnage of bumpage

[uscit]

Probably Tyson's (Chicken). The same story applies to meat packing plants all over the country. They used to pay $15/hour even years ago in many places, but all the Americans have been replaced and the wages have plummeted.

[madrussian]

bump to all anti-illegal-immigration warriors.

[boycott]

I don't see any of these Mexicans defending our freedom. Therefore, they don't deserve our freedom. DEPORT NOW!!!!

[kaylar]

And here I thought "T-y-s-o-n-S was so obvious, I was gonna hear from their goons-or worse, their lawyers!

I seem to vaguely recall the company buying out their second largest rival (H----l? B--------l?), so they now control a horribly high amount of the meat produced in America each year-60% or higher.

[Dutchy]

BTTTT....Poor things.....

[uscit]

On top of that, the news reports out of Mexico are that the people as well as the politicians have been basically gloating over the WTC massacre. The arrogant imperialist Americans had it coming to them, you know. Days passed before there was even any expression of condolences from anyone in Mexico, much less even lifting a finger to help us with the terrorism problem.

[kaylar]

Actually, they HAVE been fined-by the EPA, for gross (literally) environmental abuses. Like, say, a lake used to collect the runoff from the rendering with five FEET of fat floating on its surface, which was contaminating the ground water. Doesn't matter-they make so much money, they just pay the fine and continue the same offenses.

As for the "immigrants", the INS has raided them several times-but all that means is a busload is deported to the border. A few weeks or months later, they're back again. Rumor has it that T----S send busses down the Texas border towns to collect workers, no questions asked, but no one really knows if that's true. And rumors also persist that someone tips them off as to win a raid is going to go down, so the worst workers are the only illegals in the plant that day. But again, no one knows how much truth there is in that.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Our borders have become a national disgrace and now a national security nightmare. Sadam Hussein himself could enter our nation with little or no effort.

And you are correct, our immigration "free for all" got us into this disaster.

[skeeter]

This is what our fellow citizens are talking about when they smugly inform us that we need immigrants because Americans "won't do the jobs they do."

Long ago I was one of two non-mexicans waitering at a upscale Mexican restaurant in my hometown. Talk about your 'hostile work environments' - every night was a battle.

[FITZ]

I really hope Fox and the other politicians down there will now work together (they haven't been) and get those changes made that they must make. Mexico has plenty of land and resources, and the people there could make it if the system was right. The last thing we need is an unstable southern border, we should want them to be part of the capitalist world more than ever. I don't believe in illegal immigration at all, I just want 2 stable neighbors for the US.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Thats why the government and these large companies and corporations encouraged and supported this massive criminal invasion. Greed, the all mighty buck, slave labor. We were sold out for cheaper, less costly workers.

[kaylar]

Yes, and that is damaging in so many ways-First, the American workers are deprived of their jobs, and usually wind up making much less elsewhere. Second, the immigrants get paid less to begin with. And what does that mean? It means that all the local businesses are hurting and even shutting down, because there are no longer enough workers making enough to have the kind of disposable income to keep them open. And the tax base shrinks , too, hurting the city and the county....It's not just the American workers eased out of Tysons who are hurt by Tyson's greed and inhumanity to local and 'imported' workers alike. It's beyond a vicious circle.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

I GUESS AMERICA REWARDS CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR,THAT IS UNLESS YOUR AN AMERICAN.IF THE MEXICANS FEEL ANGUISH,THEN THEY CAN"GO THE HELL HOME"!

[american spirit]

DEFINITELY A RACE TO THE BOTTOM! Hopefully, there'll be enough of us around to help preserve some sanity after all the useful political and media idiots have ruined this country.

[RaceBannon]

Yeah, I feel so sorry for these ILLEGAL ALIENS