Posted on 08/25/2005 5:41:39 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
'Border Watch' Confronts Latino Day Laborers
A group that claims to help the U.S. Border Patrol is bringing controversy to Dallas after launching "an operation" targeting day laborers.
The group called "Border Watch" picked a spot on Park Lane, near Greenville, early Thursday morning because it is popular with Latino day laborers hoping to get picked up for work.
The workers were angry with group members for passing out fliers warning employers that hiring illegal immigrants is a federal crime.
Border Watch members also carried video cameras, which were used to record license plates and people, according to the fliers.
However, a Border Watch spokesman denied that.
"If something should go wrong, the video camera protects all the honest people," Curtis Collier said.
Collier said the group is not opposed to Latino people, but rather immigration.
"What we basically need to do is get people to enter our country legally so we can rule out that criminal element and the terrorist element," he said.
Immigration attorney John Wheat Gibson said the fliers encourage discrimination, and that employers have to ask only for simple documentation to comply with the law.
"And furthermore, if it's phony, it's not the employer's job to go and have a laboratory analyze it and find out," Gibson said.
Gibson said it is against the law to knowingly hire illegal workers, but also illegal to refuse to hire Spanish-speaking Latinos.
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Controversy?? I call it AWARENESS !!!
Is it against the law to knowingly hire illegal Spanish-speaking Latinos, John?.
Gibson said it is against the law to knowingly hire illegal workers, but also illegal to refuse to hire Spanish-speaking Latinos.
That's better than watching the border.
To get rid of the rats, take away the cheese.
Fruitcake!
OK, I'll watch the rat hole and you take away the cheese.
I'm still not convinced many of these illegals speak Spanish. Their 'language' is to Spanish what ebonics is to English. Sadly, it is due to the lack of an educational system in Mexico...in contrast to the promotion of such nonsense in the U.S. public school system by diversity idiots.
It's a deal.
Seriously, it is the same principle as the "war on drugs". Gotta crack down on the users, even if that brings down the "respectable" suburbanite. Those who hire the illegals make exiting the rat hole look very attractive.
Perfect location for the North Dallas clowns who hire these people.
Has Bush called this neighborhood watch group vigilantes yet??
Tomorrow's headline...
"day laborers"
So, now they are "day laborers". How far across the border do they need to travel to become "day laborers"? When they sneak in under the fence they are "illegal aliens" under the laws of the US. As they traverse the country, somewhere along the way they become "undocumented" and then "day laborers". We don't want anyone to think of them in the same sentence with the word "documents".
If I set up a trailer for employers to come to to hire "day laborers" just 100 yards over the border, would they still be "illegal aliens" or "day laborers"?
Just how far do they need to travel?
Go after the employers and the illegal aliens for tax evasion. The illegals working under the table are not paying income tax and neither are the scumbag employers that hire them.
I like the way you are thinking!
"And furthermore, if it's phony, it's not the employer's job to go and have a laboratory analyze it and find out," Gibson said.
What a whiney, sophomoric response. Then again, what would one expect from a [moonbat] lawyer?
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