Don't complain about the illegals if you don't make the call to report them.
1-866-347-2423.
Posted on 08/13/2007 10:52:27 AM PDT by bilhosty
Craig pushes immigration reform Senator predicts millions will lose jobs after Social Security crackdown. By Dan Popkey - dpopkey@idahostatesman.com Edition Date: 08/10/07 Pressure to pass immigration reform will intensify as millions of undocumented workers lose jobs as a result of a crackdown by the Social Security Administration, Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, said Thursday. "What will happen over the course of the next two months is several million workers will be laid off or fired and there is no one to take their place," Craig told the Boise Rotary Club.
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Here’s what I just sent:
On your AgJobs idea: The American people are willing to put up with some disruption in the labor market and are amazingly adaptable as well. What we won’t put up with is a government that refuses to do its job of enforcing our borders and tolerates 12 million illegals in the country now.
In case you hadn’t noticed, the American people sent a clear message when they melted your phones during the last two rounds of this nonsense: ENFORCEMENT FIRST!
Thank you
I will say this. A crackdown and booting the illegals IS going to create a demographic crisis and a shortfall in Soc. Security funding of enormous proportions.
And before you leap to your feet and exclaim that the solution is increased legal immigration, make sure you have an explanation for 2 things in hand:
1) How will you get democrats to approve an influx of higher skilled immigrants from Europe who will be affluent and vote GOP? and
2) How will you fund the bidding war that will unfold IMMEDIATELY when the new immigrant country of origin offers incentives to keep skilled workers. And if they are unskilled who will take the jobs vacated by booted illegals, who is going to pay for their plane ticket?
I am so tired of sending emails to Craig. Retire already, Craig!
Boo-hoo. Cut your own lawn and raise your kids like a father should, Craig. Better quit your Job. You have work to do at home and your family needs you.
Alot of prominent "True conservative" politicians are.
Look at South Carolina where freepers trash Lindsey Graham but hail Jim DeMint (whose voting record is not much different) as an outstanding conservative icon. Guess who DeMint is cheerleading for President? It ain't guys like Hunter or Tancredo. It's this certain fellow from Ted Kennedy's state.
And even DeMint's endorsement is a step up from the other "true conservative" they wanted to challenge Lindsey, coke-snorting Rudybot Tom Ravenel. (which sort of makes sense, you'd have to be on drugs to think Rudy represents South Carolina "values")
Poor leadership is killing us. This is just one more example.
And if “our” politicians are not called to account, it will continue.
Don't complain about the illegals if you don't make the call to report them.
1-866-347-2423.
Don’t look now, boys and girls, but they’re going to attempt to push amnesty through piecemeal starting after labor day. Roll up your sleaves for another fight!
Sheer eloquence!
Boggles the mind that "conservatives" like Craig and Lindsey Graham can be so deluded that they think giving away America to Mexico is a good idea.
You are not really insinuating that illegals pay substantial amounts into SS are you. The little we will lose on SS will be readily made up for with decrease in crime and social services.
Those immigrants only “do the jobs we aren’t willing to do” because they can’t get welfare. If we want to replace those workers with our own, we will have to severely limit welfare as well. If we magically ended welfare next month, there would be plenty of people suddenly interested in those jobs.
Since 40% of their workers had bogus SSNs, it appears to be pretty safe to assume that this company did very little to ensure that it was hiring legal workers.
The good news is that even with little effort to hire legal workers, it looks as if 60% were legal.
They may have to raise wages to attract more legal workers. They may have to make an effort to legally bring migrant workers into the country on a temporary basis using the plans that are currently in place.
These companies should have been working harder and harder to hire legal workers rather than trying to illegally keep hiring workers cheaply. If they lose crops because they refused to make an effort to hire legal workers, that is their own fault.
I don't want to see our agriculture industry upended and see food prices skyrocket. However, I've seen little to convince me that will happen. Food prices are likely to go up, because agriculture companies are going to have to pay more to attract more legal workers, but I don't think the industry is going to collapse under the burden of following the law.
Forget the DemoRats “allowing” in more Europeans- we can do better than that.
The Christians in EU (not all EU members but most...) need a host country to facilitate them having a status as refugees from religios persecution.
If any US states would set up the incursion of European religious persecution refugess, the shame to DemoRats would be .... deafening. The benefits to the Conservative cause would be obvious.
Craig is a liar.
Sweat shop factory owners (and their paid political whores) cried the same tears about the end of child labor.
Graham, Craig, and any other Republican who supports illegal immigration need to be shown the door.
Good. That means the politicians will have to address the issue rather than kicking the can down the road again.
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