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1M Immigrants Skip Work for Demonstration
ap/yahoo ^ | 5/1/06 | gillian flaccus

Posted on 05/01/2006 6:40:53 PM PDT by LouAvul

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To: hispanarepublicana

Well I'm in NJ and theres groups of illegals that stand on street corners looking for work each morning. They dont speak much english nor do they look like they've become Americanized. If I have insulted you in anyway I did not mean to. However years ago I can remember the INS coming thru local towns looking for those without green cards and they went up to anyone they thought was illegal. If they had the card they were not hassled, if they didnt they took them in. It worked. I have nothing against anyone coming here legally. But we need to do something to find out who is illegal. Unless they have the card how are we to know? I am not saying anyone who looks Mexican is illegal but come on there are plenty of Mexicans who you just can see arent here legally. Sorry If you took my comment as an insult it was not meant to be.


61 posted on 05/01/2006 8:28:23 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: hispanarepublicana

Shout "La Migra" as you approach. Illegals will run. Legal immigrants will start laughing.


62 posted on 05/01/2006 8:28:47 PM PDT by nhoward14 (I am an engineer. If it ain't broke, it ain't got enough features yet.)
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To: pandoraou812

It's just a slippery slope, and the a$$clowns tend to like falling down slippery slopes. There's an a$$clown on another thread who now says he's going to stop frequenting or shopping at ANY hispanic owned businesses or businesses who even EMPLOY hispanics, regardless of how the businessowners or employees feel about illegal immigration. Do you know how unfair this guy's plan is to conservative hispanic families with businesses like mine who are basically just like other Americans in terms of having built up their businesses, paid taxes, raised families, sent sons/fathers/brothers to war, etc.?


63 posted on 05/01/2006 8:33:02 PM PDT by hispanarepublicana (The GOP should not fall for the soft bigotry of assuming all Hispanics are pro-amnesty.)
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To: LouAvul
"Jesse Hernandez, who owns a Birmingham, Ala., company that supplies Hispanic laborers to companies around the Southeast, shut down his four-person office in solidarity with the demonstrations."

I think the authorities should take a very very close look at Hernandez business. We need to know all about his "hispanic laborers". ICE, IRS, INS, and as many alphabet agencies as possible.

64 posted on 05/01/2006 8:40:49 PM PDT by isrul
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To: freedumb2003
"I am REALLY willing to find out what we don't have."

And look forward to a lot more of not having it.

65 posted on 05/01/2006 8:45:11 PM PDT by isrul
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To: hispanarepublicana

You are right. i am just in a mood. i have many friends who employ Mexicans who are the most hardworking loyal employees one could ask for. I just get so mad when i hear we are the invaders and they want their land back. I tend to rant then think. Usually im very nice and want to help everyone. i just see how we can give amnesty when we have so many people who are on lists waiting in line. i dont blame anyone for wanting a better life, both sides of my grandparents did. just lets find a sensible way to do it and if you want to come in, do it the legal way.


66 posted on 05/01/2006 9:11:27 PM PDT by pandoraou812 ( barbaric with zero tolerance and dilligaf?)
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To: LouAvul
Retired Army Colonel Jack Culberson took the words right out of my mouth.We should send all the illegal aliens home and put the people collecting welfare to work in their place.If we don't have enough welfare recipients we can always use the thousands of non violent inmates who sit on their ass and suck up tax dollars.Just about anything is better than letting in millions of ignorant people who think we owe them something.
67 posted on 05/01/2006 9:24:28 PM PDT by rdcorso (There Is No Such Thing As A Neutral Person During A War With Radical Islam.)
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To: LouAvul
"We are the backbone of what America is, legal or illegal, it doesn't matter," said Melanie Lugo, who with her husband and their third-grade daughter

.... WRONG. We cannot accept illegal aliens in this country, and it adds insult to injury to see expressions from illegal aliens that think they have a 'right' to be here, irregardless of laws, of the costs, of the needs and efforts of citizens and honest law-abiding immigrants who DO obey the laws to get and stay here.

NO AMNESTY is the right response. Obey the law, then let's talk.

68 posted on 05/01/2006 9:28:37 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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"I want my children to know their mother is not a criminal," said Olmedo, a nanny who came here illegally in 1986 from Mexico.

If it wasn't so STUPID I'd have to laugh at this craziness. Does she think that merely SAYING she's not a criminal makes her not a criminal???????


69 posted on 05/01/2006 9:36:57 PM PDT by Shimmer128
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To: Getready
I've got a another idea. Find out who is EMPLOYING the illegals, and boycott those businesses

You are on the right track. I would join in. We would have to be ready to endure being called names and having our "organizers" and "ringleaders" accused of extremism, racism and hard-right leanings. As you know, the libby-dibs like to do boycotts and get called heroes by the MSM; and they think it's their own personal one-way street. And they enjoy not having their communist underpinnings exposed by the MSM. But, oh, how they would howl if we made a two-way street out of it, and had a BIG boycott of our own. I am so sick of this, I'm ready for a little payback.

70 posted on 05/01/2006 9:55:40 PM PDT by Migraine (...diversity is great (until it happens to you)...)
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To: LouAvul

a nationwide boycott that succeeded in slowing or shutting many farms, factories, markets and restaurants..

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Many? How many?

More pap&crap from AP


71 posted on 05/01/2006 11:03:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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To: cripplecreek

My ex girlfriend gave me a call today and the McDonalds at the local mall where she lives closed today because of the strike.


72 posted on 05/01/2006 11:06:25 PM PDT by RHINO369
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To: LouAvul; All
A snippet from my files:

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/006886.php

Sun Still Setting In The West

It appears that the nationwide strike by illegal immigrants and their supporters caused some headaches but little immediate economic impact, as outside of Denver, Chicago, and Los Angeles...However, in a story that will likely have immigration hardliners talking for days, the AP reports that twenty-five percent of the children in the Los Angeles School District failed to attend classes today. After all, LAUSD's annual budget for its 746,000 students is over $13 billion, or about $17,000 per student. If the walkout caused 25% of the students to strike, that puts the annual educational cost for illegal immigrants at around $3.25 billion -- just for Los Angeles.

You can bet that a lot of people will do precisely these kinds of calculations nationwide. How many students walked out in Chicago? In Houston? In Denver? One of the reasons why illegal immigrants existed in the shadows was to avoid this kind of exposure, but that's no longer operative.

It was a great boycott if you compare a mapping of Non-Citizens against a mapping of the last two Presidential elections

Here there is almost a 1 to 1 corelation. Comments (32)


73 posted on 05/02/2006 2:41:50 AM PDT by backhoe
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