So they are family men now having an impact on our communities? Yea, here is an example left by their kids;
People who are poor need to work, but downright lying about the great additions to our community isn’t going to get any sympathy here.
Posted on 01/22/2006 10:24:03 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Rulings have come down that illegals are entitled to workers compensation if injured on the job.
The state could seek reimbursement from the individual that hired the illegal for medical expenses paid out by the state for an injured illegal. I don't know whether homeowners insurance would cover it, since it is unlawful to hire illegals.
I said the same thing about Hatian illegals, and was flamed endlessely. Go figure.
Ah, the graffiti. A 178-unit public-housing project for 'low-income Latinos' opened in my neighborhood last year and almost immediately the graffiti started showing up. I wish the neighborhood association could sue the county for allowing (encouraging!) this kind of development. (Of course, not one of our delightful Multnomah County Commissioners lives within miles of our neighborhood. I wish that, for once, they'd plant an enormous welfare housing project for illegal aliens in one of the ritzier areas, but that'll be the day.)
My reaction is that if the employee had money deducted for workers comp insurance, the employee should get compensation regardless of legal status because this is insurance, not welfare.
Now if no payment was made for workers comp (or unemployment insurance for that matter), the employee should not collect for either illegals or citizens.
What I get from this is that about 117,600 of the 10 million or so illegals are decent people then. Might be enough to spare Sodom, but even if it were the full 10 million it would still not justify giving up our sovereignty.
You made a generalisation for which you were rightly corrected. I would not say you were flamed 'endlessly'.
The laws protect honest people from dishonest employers. I'm sure that this guy IS a good person but because he's illegal, I'm not surprised some trash contractor would stiff him. My sister sees it all the time working in the banking industry.
"_Three-fourths were illegal immigrants and most were Hispanic: 59 percent were from Mexico and 28 percent from other Central American countries..."
That pretty well substantiates what most of us have been writing and consistently so for a while now, despite being called "racists" and whatnot. Looks like the stats support the by-far majority of illegal aliens are from Mexico. It's a fact, and raising that point does not make anyone guilty of a pejorative (or more of them), to state the obvious.
Another thing, rhetorically: if these guys (the one quoted in this article, who seems on average about of the same situation as many others I've read of) feel so outraged at conditions based upon a responsibility to their family/ies, why are they leaving their families (wives, children) and making illegal entrance to another country, many hundreds of thousands of miles away, and, remaining here all these years...if they're so worried about their families, why aren't they home with them.
Does not ring true, sincere, to my read. I think a lot of these people are just here. They bring "families" into the explanations but their actions certainly don't bespeak of a highly responsible relationship to "family."
The expenses for living in the U.S. are far higher than living in Mexico and if they have substantial settings enough in Mexico (and whereever else) to actually HAVE "families" (a wife and children), it seems to me that they are very likely to also already have established homes in Mexico (and whereever) and, sneaking into the U.S. and remaining here for years on end illegally certainly does not seem realistic, nor responsible, for anyone who DOES have a wife and children. I think it's often a ruse, is my point, to try to make Americans feel guilty about an organized society otherwise (immigration requirements, the fact that one is supposed to apply for permission to enter the U.S./any other country, legitimacy in general).
I place the blame squarely at the feet of the US government, past and esp. present with President Bush's lax attitude towards this isue.
Mr. Sanchez says, "What are we going to do - not work?"
If only Americans - especially welfare recipients - could have that attitude!
I worry about the hordes of illegal immigrants just like everybody else on FR, but they came here for a reason. And a lot of that reason is that many, many Americans want to stand around, slack-jawed, waiting on a paycheck that they didn't earn.
Well said.
Doesn't seem any worse than the native born welfare and housing project trash who I have dealt with.
Interesting. In the New York area, the illegals typically live in private housing. Public housing is largely occupied by the blacks and native-born Nuyoricans, who hand their apartments in the PJs down to their kids.
Three-fourths were illegal immigrants and most were Hispanic: 59 percent were from Mexico and 28 percent from other Central American countries.
I see the author fails to mention who or where the other 13% are from.
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