Posted on 07/18/2007 3:54:50 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
During the meeting, Sandra Jiménez asked the immigration officer, who insisted on calling the detainees “illegal aliens” because “that is the legal term,” to consider using a less offensive term, such as undocumented workers.
“The word alien makes me think of strange little creatures,” Sandra Jiménez, a legal immigrant from Mexico, said. “I am not a Martian.”
“No,” said the officer, “home - to Mexico.”
The term “home” was not the only one that had different meanings for Sandra Jiménez and other immigrant families and for the immigration officer. A man in the audience, who also had a relative possibly on the way “home,” explained: “We have been living in the United States for 20 years. Our home is here, our job; we have children.”
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Summon the WAAAHMBULANCE. We have quite the list of crying, “distressed” persons.
The daughter of the plant owner, and her daddy, had to know their employees were illegals. Employment of cheap labor, which is also ilegal labor, has consequences. Daddy and daughter pocketed the illegal wage difference - a crime - and now are crying about the penalty for their criminal acts.
“Community activists”, both American and Mexican, are whining and posturing behind “the children”. Any other FReepers notice that the illegal immigration criminals AND their Libroid cheering squads show the same tendency to hide behind children that Islamic terrorists demonstrate.
So these workers were illegals. Who’s SS# did they use? Did they owner pay them off the books? Did he pay them minimum wage? Did he deduct taxes and keep the money? Screw the owner of this company. He deserves to go out of business. While he was looking at his profit margin there were about 90 Americans out there who have some explaining to do about their stolen SS numbers.
{The lawyers would have it shut down within hours.}
[Not if they were really interested in solving the problem which they are not. ]
Who? The courts or the BATF?
The BATF will do what the courts tell them they can do. It's not the courts job to solve illegal immigration, it's the courts job to follow the Constitution and the law. Existing case law means that an employer can say he's examined the relevant documents for employment and that's his get-out-of-jail-free card. Demonstrating in court that the employer knew about the employees illegal status is almost always impossible, which is why stories like this are so rare.
Giving amnesty to 40 million criminal invaders is NOT the answer either.
It's probably only 12 million, and the legal "criminality" is about as serious as a traffic ticket. I'm sure you don't like that, but that's the facts.
I had no trouble at all telling the illegal alien criminals from the Americans of Mexican descent and neither did my employer.
Fine. So prove that in the courtroom.
If someone could not be interviewed in English and fill out an employment application in English they simply were not hired.
Good. I wish all employers did that. I think conversing in English is more important than legal status actually. But you need to grasp that current law cannot force an employer to do that. The law requires changing, and conservatives have just prevented that from happening.
Your post is delusional and I am not going to bother addressing it.
12 million indeed.
You've probably figured out about now, betting the farm on daddy's ILLEGAL business model wasn't such a hot idea. LMAO! Blackbird.
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