[TXBubba]

If they advertise this more they may actually have people move to the town.

[msnimje]

OMG! Obeying the law doesn't pay!

[Theo]

The paragraph breaks make this difficult to read.

It's good to see this town do the right thing.

[goodnesswins]

"We don't realize how hard it is to go out in 80-degree weather and try to pull weeds in the sun," said Sernak, 47. "Most people couldn't last one day. Most people didn't last till lunch."

Well....MAYBE.....people will start pulling their OWN weeds....or MAKING their insolent teenagers pull them!

[Doogle]

And Amilcar Arroyo has watched as the wire transfers sent from his store dropped from $700 a day to $200 to $50.

..so this one store in sleepy little Hazleton,PA was transferring around $250,000 a year out of the country... and I'm sure Mr. Arroyo's place wasn't the only place in town to send the money home....anyone want to consider the possibilities,....and all this from a town of (then) 30,000 Doogle

[TheLion]

Ping!

[TheLion]

Wish every town in America would pass restrictive laws against illegals. Maybe then, some of them will go back home.

[org.whodat]

William Sernak, who farms in a town nearby, could not find enough workers at harvest time.

Given that they've been snowed and iced in up there for the past two or three months what was the harvest and when? :)

[VOA]

bump

[VOA]

"If it keeps away illegals who have been involved in criminal activity,
it would be good for everyone,"

What a concept!

[hinckley buzzard]

There had always been a drug trade in Hazleton, but it became more brazen, with "a certain cold-bloodedness to it that we had never seen before," he said. The 30-man police department was overwhelmed, he said, and people began to worry.

In their home countries they are the same people who cooperate with drug cartels and willingly vote murderous and corrupt dictators into power. No surprise here.

[G-Man 1]

Isn't it great? Things getting back to the good days. Seventy years ago immigrants came through Ellis Island not swimming across the Rio Grand river. They learned the language and customs of their new homeland. ONE LANGUAGE ONE COUNTRY TWO LANGUAGES TWO COUNTRIES. Ask canada.

[csmusaret]

Come on down to North Carolina where we recite the Pledge of Allegiance at high school graduations en Espanol.

[Desron13]

"The changes came bit by bit to Hazleton this fall. Rich O'Brien woke up one morning and his neighbors across the street were gone. For the first time in memory, William Sernak, who farms in a town nearby, could not find enough workers at harvest time. And Amilcar Arroyo has watched as the wire transfers sent from his store dropped from $700 a day to $200 to $50."

GOOD!

By the way, where's the Barf Alert?

[norton]

"If it keeps away illegals who have been involved in criminal activity, it would be good for everyone," said the man, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of concern for his privacy. "Like everyone else, I did have a negative reaction initially, but one has to be able to take a second look."

Why do I think he withheld his name for reasons other than mere 'privacy'?

[gubamyster]

ping

[raybbr]

Contrast this with the idiot mayor of New Haven, CT who ran for governor.

NEW HAVEN — The city and several cooperating agencies opened the doors of six volunteer-staffed free income tax preparation assistance centers for low-income residents Monday and announced plans for the first time in the five-year life of the program to extend the free help to undocumented immigrants working in the city. They discussed how undocumented workers can pay taxes — and get refunds on taxes already taken out of their paychecks — even if they don’t have Social Security numbers.

"This year, we’re encouraging undocumented immigrants to pay taxes as well," said Mayor John DeStefano Jr., who heads an immigrant-friendly city in which police Chief Francisco Ortiz Jr. recently issued an executive order declaring that police will not ask residents about their immigration status or arrest people solely for failing to have proper immigration papers.From here.