Bloomberg: Illegal immigrants help golfers

UPI ^ | 4/1/06

[NormsRevenge]

NEW YORK, April 1 (UPI) -- New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says golf fairways would suffer if illegal immigrants were returned to their native country.

"You and I are beneficiaries of these jobs," Bloomberg told his WABC-AM radio co-host, John Gambling. "You and I both play golf; who takes care of the greens and the fairways in your golf course?"

However, Robert Heaney, general manager of Deepdale Golf Club -- a Long Island course where Bloomberg often plays -- told The New York Daily News that no illegal immigrants work at the club.

"Deepdale Golf Club has always been in 100 percent compliance with all immigration laws, and it is absolutely our policy to remain in compliance with all immigration laws," Heaney said.

The mayor also said 25 percent of undocumented immigrants are farm workers and many are home healthcare workers.

"Nobody wants to deport them, in the end, because people need them to take these jobs and do the things that nobody else is doing," Bloomberg said.

[OldFriend]

Why we call him Mayor Bloooming-idiot.

As for Gambling.....now that the illegals are lining up in his town he's upset.

[thoughtomator]

Ah, now we see why the country-club set is so determined to ram illegals down our throats.

[Unicorn]

I don't golf.

[brytlea]

I'm curious. Do home healthcare companies vet their employees or do any sort of background check? If you think about it, it should be VERY scarey that any significant number of home healthcare employees are illegal. That means they are not REALLY checking out the people who come into homes and care for the ill and the elderly. Doesn't give one a warm fuzzy...
susie

[proxy_user]

"... of Deepdale Golf Club -- a Long Island course where Bloomberg often plays..."

I guess if you cater to billionaires, you can afford to hire American workers.

This is certainly not the case at the 9 holes for 15 bucks kind of course.

[Dane]

I'm curious. Do home healthcare companies vet their employees or do any sort of background check?

I would say yes, since there are tons of trial lawyers who advertise on the jerry springer show, just ready to pounce for their next tort jackpot.

[muawiyah]

Amazingly a "country club Republican" actually admits that he thinks all the dark folks who tend lawns are illegal aliens.

[Screamname]

As much as I can`t stand this guy, I must say at least he is honest. Such as when they asked him if he ever smoked pot and he said "Yes, and I enjoyed it". Honest, but on the other hand the people of NORML will never stop using that quote in ads for the next 990000 years.

[Porterville]

Well let's help these golf courses get in trouble for tax evasion. Hiring illegals is illegal.

[Andy'smom]

This is the same arguement Lindsey Graham uses to justify his vote for amnesty.

[cripplecreek]

"Nobody wants to deport them, in the end, because people need them to take these jobs and do the things that nobody else is doing,"

I have an uncle who is the head of grounds maintinance at the local country club and he doesn't hire illegals. An ex girlfriends father is head groundskeeper at another local course and he has two of his sons on the crew with him.

What's the deal with these idiots and their inability to stop insulting their fellow Americans.

[TheForceOfOne]

Every time I hear a stupid argument like this I can't help thinking people want cheap labor as a form of slave labor. The country clubs would go to hell in a hand basket without Mexican laborers, good grief Charlie Brown!

[buccaneer81]

This guy can do the job!

[ZULU]

Everytime this pansey opens his mouth he shows how empty his skull is.

[Moonman62]

Every time I hear a stupid argument like this I can't help thinking people want cheap labor as a form of slave labor.

One day they will sue for reparations.

[brytlea]

So, then they know they are hiring illegal aliens? AND more to the point, can you really do a criminal background check on an illegal alien (I mean can your average business do it)?
susie

[CowboyJay]

"Amazingly a "country club Republican" actually admits that he thinks all the dark folks who tend lawns are illegal aliens."

Fellow FReeper smack nail firmly on the head, and drives it home in a single blow!