Posted on 05/03/2006 9:50:29 PM PDT by Jeff Head
I can recall a day when the roofing, framing and other similiar jobs were done by Whites, Blacks and Mexican-Americans in Houston and surrounding areas. This was about 15 - 20 years ago.
The illegals then arrived en masse and undercut the existing wage structure and soon had all the jobs.
I doubt that the illegals wages are as much as the Americans were 20 years ago. (But we can have cheaper houses).
The illegals are not doing jobs Americans won't do. They are however doing doing jobs Americans can't do at the illegals wage scale.
The Employers importing these people in so that they can exploit them for cheap labor under almost slave - like conditions have the same short sighted mentality of the Slave Importers of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
I once thought Larry Craig was a hardcore Conservative. He looks like the NWO on this immigration disaster though.
With all due respect, I have to laugh when I read stuff like this.
Are you aware that most of these roofers are making $10-12 per hour? That they get regular breaks? That many of them have their own cars?
That they can move from company to company?
There are no "slave" conditions with most of these illegal laborers. They have too many choices for jobs, and make too much money.
Yah, you do that. Replace Larry Craig.
: rolls eyes :
I'm sure he's shaking in his boots. He only got 65% of the vote last time.
(1). Stop paying them the welfare checks, immediately.
(2). DEFINE the "anchor baby" clause in our Constitution, it was not created to make the children of illegal aliens instant citizens and this needs to be clarified.
(3). Using current laws and resources, begin finding, arresting and deporting illegals immediately. No massive numbers are needed, we just need to begin the task and send the message.
(4). Stop all programs that reward illegals, especially in-state college tuition, driver's licenses, food stamps, e-v-e-r-y government benefit currently enriching illegal aliens must stop immediately.
(5). Heavily fine each and every business that hires these illegals, publish those business's names in local newspapers or on the internet, (or nationally if it pertains), so people can stop dealing with them. Quadruple the fines each time they are caught again. Make it financially untenable for them to ever take the risk of hiring illegals.
(6). Pay local kids to do your lawn work and other jobs instead of hiring illegals. Every American must do their part with this.
(7). Make English the mandatory language of America. No more 'second language' b.s. on corporate customer service phone menus. STOP the pandering.
(8). Release every single illegal alien convicted of crimes and currently incarcerated in our prisons, and deport them to their countries of origin.
(9). Get Dan Quayle to show you how to grow your own tomatoes.
While the above is being implemented, begin building a real border to our south, and with the enormous money we will be saving as a result of stopping welfare benefits to invaders, use some of that money to fund more border guards and electronic surveilance.
If we make the above changes there will no longer be any reason for foreignors to risk life and limb sneaking into our country to rape our land and reap a windfall of welfare benefits. Not a shot has to be fired, not a single dollar spent, not a drop of sweat wasted. Just simple, common sense measures and we can prevent illegals from wanting to come here, and discourage the present ones to the point that they will return home voluntarily because it is no longer financially beneficial to be here, and the danger of deportation will be hanging over their heads like the Sword of Damacles.
Great patience and ideas Jeff. 'specially like the public works aspect!
Your letters were excellent. Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to send them. Hope we get results.
Who did landscaping and roofing in the Southwest 30 years ago?
It might take a little time to bring legal citizens back into these types of industries...but it would be well worth the cost.
And regarding deporation. If all of the 'free services' are taken away from the illegals...they'll deport themselves!
And maybe someday the 14th amendent will be clarified so that the so-called anchor babies will be 'anchored' to their parents citizenship.
Great letter. Consider it 'stolen' and sent to my own senators. Thanks.
Yah, you do that. Replace Larry Craig.
: rolls eyes :
I'm sure he's shaking in his boots. He only got 65% of the vote last time.
65% is pretty bad when he didn't really have an opponent and the state is pretty much wall-to-wall "Republicans".
I went to his office and griped about his support of a agricultural guestworker/amnesty program, the "American dream" act (illegal aliens attending colleges at resident rates), and driver's licenses for illegal aliens (I didn't find a second source for this one, but since I had for the other two, I complained about it anyway particularly since I had just had my civil rights stomped on and the Federal Government did nothing).
Yesterday, I sent copies of a similar open letter to my Senators (Sarbanes and Mikulski), as well as Frist, Specter, Kennedy, McCain, Cornyn, and Kyl (involved in various versions of border control legislation). I hope that covers the waterfront.
As far as the military goes, if they do anything beyond assisting the border patrol and providing defense against armed drug runners and smugglers, they could get into trouble with Posse Comitatus.
As far as guest workers go, I don't agree with that at all. If, as Senator Frist says, our country needs 400,000 immigrants per year to keep the economy going, then hand out 400,000 green cards per year only to people who want to become Americans, and who pass a background check. This in itself can only occur after Homeland Security fixes its scandalous background check system.
Neither is Reconquista. These people should not be here. Period.
Illegal drugs do not bring with them the idea of retaking the American southwest on behalf of Mexico or "Aztlan."
Gee, sink, what would YOU pay them, minimum wage?
Jeff-I always appreciate your lucid posts and clear thoughts. I have thought long and hard as well-I agree with you on all points. There is one additional isue, I feel is a major draw for the alien..how we tax. I have long thought coupling the FairTax to this issue would help resolve the porblem, because it either forces the alien to participate in the tax system, by paying the Federal sales tax, or he HAS TO REGISTER to obtain the income exemption refund.
Good work, Jeff.
That's sort of the same initial reply I got from mine. The problem is TOO big to handle, so "we" give in and give up.
I tersely replied to my Senators and asked if employers need guest workers so much, why not require them swear out an affidavit of support (similar to Form I-134) for each worker and require those applicants be processed by the DHS and US Labor departments.
Sponsors of legal immigrants must file a notarized Form I-134, so it's only fair that employers be required similarly.
Although a court had previously ruled those signed affidavits may not be enforcable, that ruling could be contested by the dismissal of any other sworn affidavit coming before a court or by a defendant contesting a sworn affidavit produced as evidence against himself.
The point is, the financial responsibility of guest workers ought clearly fall upon those whose invitation brings them here while prohibiting those from becoming public charges and that responsibility upon both ought be fully enforced.
As they say, "A journey begins with the first step".
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