Posted on 11/05/2005 2:21:04 PM PST by Eternal Sea
GULFPORT, Miss. Immigrants who are doing much of the grunt work in the clean-up after Hurricane Katrina are often finding themselves working for free -- but not by choice. Thousands of Hispanic immigrant laborers are being stiffed in Mississippi. Sometimes their bosses disappear. Sometimes they are promised payment at a later date.
It's a violation of the federal labor law not to pay workers, but many of the workers are illegal.
One man who paid 12-hundred dollars to be smuggled into the U-S from Mexico after Katrina hit has been waiting six to be paid for eight days of dawn-to-dusk labor.
A subcontractor blames the process by which payments from the U-S Army Corps of Engineers are made. But an Army Corps spokeswoman says she's not aware of any problems.
Workers who aren't paid have two options. They can file a civil suit in state court or file a federal complaint.
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Insurgent is most commonly used today to describe the anti american terrorists in iraq.
Your lame attempt to link them to the illegals is simply stupid.
People are smarter than that.
The illegal immigrants are in fact illegal immigrants.
It is not working, give it up.
Care to provide some documentation for that.
While it is impossible to document the thoughts of individuals unless they reveal those thoughts themselves, actions of the individuals can be an indication.
People are motivated to break the law when they believe they can obtain something valuable for little or no expenditure of their own resources and not face negative consequences. A fair description of an illegal's thought pattern.
A legal will have expended the time, resources and effort to arrive legally and thus has already paid his part so, obviously, a legal does not think everything is free. Occam's razor indicates an illegal holds the opposite perception of a legal.
Totally wrong
People break the law for all kinds of reasons. Some do it out of conscience (christians in rome, tianemin square, the underground railroad in pre civil war US). Some do it for material gain. Some do it for sexual gratification. Some do it for power. Some do it for revenge. Some do it just to do it (vandalism).
Second, the illegals do expend a lot of resources (they come from many miles, leave their families and often work when they get here).
I refuse to consider them "immigrants," thereby implying they should stay here. They are temporarily here until caught and expelled or executed as spies.
If someone comes into your home without your permission, he's a "home invader," not an "undocumented tenant."
I'm sorry, neither "Totally wrong", nor "wrong" can truthfully describe my statement: People are motivated to break the law when they believe they can obtain something valuable for little or no expenditure of their own resources and not face negative consequences. A fair description of an illegal's thought pattern.
Regardless of additional reasons that individuals break the law, it stands that my statement was correct in itself, as you specify: Some do it for material gain.
Please note that I do not accept your attempt to equate illegals with Christians and abolitionists and their disregard for tyrannical and unjust laws. Immigration law does not approach that level of evil.
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