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Undocumented workers bemoan U.S. crackdown
The Miami Herald ^ | Sat, Dec. 29, 2007 | ALFONSO CHARDY AND HELENA POLEO

Posted on 12/29/2007 7:14:35 AM PST by nin_kasi

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To: conservativehusker

“I guess those ‘in your face demonstrations with Mexican flags’ worked out well for them....”

I know it changed the opinion of a moonbat in my office. When the illegals marched in downtown Chicago a few months ago, waving scores of Mexican flags, we were watching the spectacle from our office windows. A co-worker was standing next to me, silent. Then, after several minutes, she turned to me, shaking her head, and said, with apparent sadness in her voice: “They really don’t want to become Americans, do they? They want to be Mexicans, and they want America to become Mexico.”

She’s still a moonbat (a big Obambi supporter). But now she wants the illegals to leave. Change often takes time. But, it happens.


21 posted on 12/29/2007 7:48:15 AM PST by ought-six
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To: nmh
Oops, I guess that means "down turn in the economy" South of the Border without all of those Gringo Dollars!

Fewer job opportunities, longer periods without work = fewer dollars to MEXICO!!!!!

Watch MEXICO begin demanding more!!!!

The American People have demanded these laws be enforced and finally, very ruluctantly I'll admit, some are.

Other community pols are getting the message from their voters - stop granting benefits, drivers' licenses and support for businesses who HIRE ILLEGALS!

22 posted on 12/29/2007 7:48:20 AM PST by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: nin_kasi

bump


23 posted on 12/29/2007 7:50:03 AM PST by VOA
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To: nin_kasi
Several immigrants without work papers are seeing job opportunities dry up and said they're thinking of packing up and leaving employers who count on their cheap labor and seasonal work.

As far as I can tell, most of the liberal push to give amnesty to illegals is based on the premise that they are little more than slave labor, and we all need slaves.

Have we learned so little since the Civil War?

24 posted on 12/29/2007 7:53:03 AM PST by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: nin_kasi

25 posted on 12/29/2007 7:53:44 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
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To: nin_kasi
In the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly double the number of deportation-order fugitives from the previous year: 30,408 compared to 15,462 nationwide. The agency's Miami office arrested 2,579 fugitives compared to 1,456 in fiscal year 2006.

Another thread here yesterday said that the Mexican government arrests 180,000 illegal aliens from Central America a year.

We should ask what they are doing and copy it. Oh, we should copy their immigration laws too.

26 posted on 12/29/2007 7:54:59 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (No buy China!!)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
Umm, they cannot prove that they are in the country legally because they are not in the country legally.

Bingo.

The Media are the Enemy. It is difficult sometimes to ascribe stupidity as opposed to malicious intent, but in most cases of the LEFT, it is the same thing, like this article.

Good tagline by the way. I continually tell people that every American citizen for the last forty years has been instructed explicitly, and with public money, on how to make kids. Even offer to draw pictures. Thus DO know where responsibility lies.

27 posted on 12/29/2007 7:59:35 AM PST by jnsun (The LEFT: The need to manipulate others because of nothing productive to offer)
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To: Graybeard58
... and I will have to pay a nickle more the next time I have to buy "pole beans".

Instead of a DOLLAR more to cover your share of the illegal picker's medical care. I'll take that deal.

28 posted on 12/29/2007 8:02:45 AM PST by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: ought-six

We’ve managed to squeeze a few good immigration votes out of Debbie Stabenow too. Gotta keep the pressure on or she starts to slip.


29 posted on 12/29/2007 8:03:04 AM PST by cripplecreek (Only one consistent conservative in this race and his name is Hunter.)
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To: nin_kasi

With the new home construction business in the pits, there is less incentive for illegal aliens to continue to come to the US. If we could figure out how to control hiring by landscapers and restaurant owners, the problem would be pretty well solved.


30 posted on 12/29/2007 8:05:04 AM PST by kittymyrib
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If we could figure out how to control hiring by landscapers ... the problem would be pretty well solved.

Y'know, that drought thing may not be ALL bad...

31 posted on 12/29/2007 8:06:18 AM PST by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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I think those demonstrations they had demanding “rights” for illegals was their downfall. Speaking for myself, I didn’t mind illegals being here as long as they kept quiet, minded their own business,supported their families, and didn’t become common criminals (yes, I know they broke the law in coming here). But once they started demonstrating, claiming their “rights” were being violated, and demanding legal status, that did it for me and probably other regular Americans as well. I don’t mind them coming here working for a season and returning home, but once they get that entitlement mentality - uh,uh get the hell out!
32 posted on 12/29/2007 8:07:53 AM PST by loreldan (Without coffee I am nothing.)
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To: nin_kasi
Also suffering from abusive law enforcement:

Undocumented wives. (hookers)
Undocumented husbands. (rapists)
Undocumented taxi drivers. (car jackers)
Undocumented pharmacists. (drug pushers)
Undocumented bank withdrawers. (bank robbers)
Undocumented treasury workers. (counterfeiters)

When will the injustice end!?

33 posted on 12/29/2007 8:13:21 AM PST by SampleMan
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34 posted on 12/29/2007 8:13:48 AM PST by gubamyster
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To: conservativehusker

In my opinion that scene is what got most Americans off their cans on this issue. The absolute stupidity of the organizers was amazing. I think these farmers need to start researching some fruit picking machines.


35 posted on 12/29/2007 8:15:03 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Graybeard58

If they are using cheap labor to keep prices down; why is it that the prices are up in the grocery stores?


36 posted on 12/29/2007 8:15:27 AM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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37 posted on 12/29/2007 8:15:39 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: SampleMan

The illegals, as well as our polical leadership, are finally coming to realize that the American people are beyond digusted with illegal immigration and the insult to our nation it represents.


38 posted on 12/29/2007 8:15:50 AM PST by ought-six
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To: nin_kasi

Be sure to write the authors of this piece to let them know how wonderful this news is I told them it was music to my ears.

BY ALFONSO CHARDY AND HELENA POLEO
achardy@MiamiHerald.com


39 posted on 12/29/2007 8:18:04 AM PST by eaglestar
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To: nin_kasi

I’ve been thinking about sneaking into another country illegally. I hope someone there takes a job away from a citizen and gives it to me. Or, better yet, that they provide me with welfare and health care benefits. Once I get established, I’ll invite all my relatives, too.

I hope that if I sneak into Mexico or Guatemala or India or Japan or China, that things work out well for me. I’d hate to have to worry like the poor illegal aliens described in this article.


40 posted on 12/29/2007 8:20:45 AM PST by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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