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TN: Hispanic community rocked by plant raid [Pilgrim's Pride Ping]
Chattanooga Times-Free Press ^ | 4/17/08 | Erin Segroves

Posted on 04/17/2008 7:27:32 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim

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To: Selmore

You’re not with the best of company when you reference Bush and McCain.


21 posted on 04/17/2008 8:09:53 PM PDT by politicalwit (AKA... A Tradition Continues...Now a Hoosier Freeper)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Sophia Martín, owner of Signs by Sophie on Main Street, was angered by the arrests, seeing only hard-working people being treated unfairly.

“Why don’t they go after the people that are committing crimes? After the ones who steal? After the ones who assault?” she said in Spanish.

"If you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one what got hit." (I forget whose quote that is, but it fits well here).

Sophia is either an illegal herself, or she's a legal resident who is enabling/employing illegals.

22 posted on 04/17/2008 8:15:48 PM PDT by Charles Martel (The Tree of Liberty thirsts.)
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To: navyguy

Chattanooga is a nice city, and I stayed at the Read House during Navy Week last year. The employers are cheating and they are getting them from Atlanta and Nashville.


23 posted on 04/17/2008 8:23:59 PM PDT by eyedigress (If you aren't voting who cares about your opinion.)
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To: politicalwit

Not sure about McCain but I’m with Bush 100%. I’m the last of the Mohecians. I’m a proud 27%’er.
Now back to deporting people. Ok fix the boarders and get a handle on immigration, but it’s impossible to deport 10-20 million people.
In the 30’s the U.S. deported 600,000 people. The same arguments were used then. It didn’t work worth a flip.
I’d rather toss welfare cheats and people that are a drag on society.
I ain’t gonna change any minds here so it’s useless to try.
I do think that the most Mexicans are more likely to be conservative than liberal (Church, Family, Antiabortion) UNLESS we alienate them with the “bubba” wing of the Republican party.


24 posted on 04/17/2008 8:33:48 PM PDT by Selmore (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.)
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To: kiriath_jearim
Others said the fear in the immigrant community was palpable after the arrests.

Fear? Since Pilgrim’s Pride just lost over 100 workers, it seems like a good time for a legal immigrant worker to ask for a raise!

25 posted on 04/17/2008 8:34:37 PM PDT by RJL
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To: Selmore
"I'm with the Pres and McCain on Immigration. This is a loser for the conservatives."

A loser for "conservatives"? Conservatives of what sort? "Conservative" Mexican nationals who ignore the border?

I notice that like most apologists for this rotten policy you conveniently leave off "illegal" when the subject concerns illegal aliens rather than legal immigrants.

Bush and McCain are open border radicals with policies no different that what is pushed by race activists like La Raza. The illegal aliens you're infatuated with will be having a big march here in LA on May Day. Maybe they'll let you carry one of their Mexican flags in the big parade, and you can tell them that you're not one of the Mean Conservatives, you're one of the Compassionate ones, and that you're more than willing to reward them for breaking immigration law.

26 posted on 04/17/2008 8:41:17 PM PDT by Pelham (Press 1 for English)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Geez. It is so much easier to just obey the laws. These people are panicking, as if we put people up against a wall and shoot them, or something else gross.

Must be the government propaganda from back home, that we gringoes are mean and vicious.

Yes, I know about the Hate Museums in Mexico!


27 posted on 04/17/2008 8:49:14 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: Selmore
Im with the Pres and McCain on Immigration. This is a loser for the conservatives.

So is believing that illegals are going to break less than 90% for the liberal Democrats.

In these days of razor thin election margins, importing 20 million new Dem voters is Republican suicide.

28 posted on 04/17/2008 8:52:01 PM PDT by RJL
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To: Selmore

Don’t have to deport any except criminals.

Just make it impossible for people without the right credentials to get a job, housing, or medical care. NO FREEBIES!!

They will go back home. Hell, the Mexican economy is growing much faster than our, and workers from Guatemala and Honduras are being enticed into temp jobs in southern Mexican states, for Gods sake!


29 posted on 04/17/2008 8:52:30 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: navyguy
“Why don’t they go after the people that are committing crimes? After the ones who steal? After the ones who assault?” she said in Spanish. (My emphasis)

Not "broken English" mind you - they are making no attempt to learn. That tells me they don't want to become Americans, just live like them.

30 posted on 04/17/2008 8:57:54 PM PDT by Oatka (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Selmore
Fine, go to a non-conservative website where you and your ideas are more popular.

They're certainly not desired around FR. We believe that if Americans must follow the law, why in the world should illegal aliens come here and ignore and defy our laws -- worse yet, get by with it and be favored by our own government?

This crap will not continue forever, my friend but don't try to peddle your "open borders" tripe here.

Have a nice day!

31 posted on 04/17/2008 9:00:59 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Oh the horror!


32 posted on 04/17/2008 9:07:05 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: Selmore
Damm son, you've been here about 6 months and already insulting about 90% of the membership. Maybe you just walked into the wrong house.
33 posted on 04/17/2008 11:43:38 PM PDT by Peacekeeper357 ("I can no more disown him, than I can disown the black community." Obama)
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To: kiriath_jearim

Adios! Throw the owner in jail too.


34 posted on 04/18/2008 12:10:14 AM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Beijing 2008. Moscow 1980 Olympic Games for murdering regimes.)
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To: Selmore; sheana; hercuroc; org.whodat; politicalwit; Pelham; RJL; SatinDoll; zerosix; ...

OK Selmore, lets you and I make an arrangement...

I want you to send me your exact home address. Here’s why...

I want to implement the Bush/McCain policy at your level. Not nationwide... just at your level... Once I have your home address I will show up at your home at a time you’re are not informed of (could be 3:00 AM) and break into your home. Once inside I will basically setup a small camp in the living room. I will then search your house for a social security number. Once I find one (maybe yours) I will go to my friends and purchase false documents with this social security number. Once I’ve done that I will start working, but I will return, each day, to my camp in your living room. I will demand that you share all household resources with me (food, water, money, etc...). I will only speak to you in Spanish and I will make all of my demands in Spanish. If you do not comply I will call La Raza and file a civil rights lawsuit accusing you of racism, violation of my civil rights and human rights violations. I will organize a march by people in the same situation as me... we will picket your house (even though I live there) and go on TV and call you a racist. Remember... WE are the victims, NOT YOU. After the march I’ll be back in your living room. I’ll have the ACLU on board in no time.

Pffffft... What... ? You don’t like this idea? Oh... I get it... It’s Ok if people break into our country.... JUST NOT ***YOUR PART*** OF THE COUNTRY. Is that right, Selmore? As long as I’m not breaking into ***YOUR*** house its OK, right? As long as I break into the ‘national house’ then it’s OK. Is that right?

You have some splaining to do...


35 posted on 04/18/2008 1:00:45 AM PDT by navyguy (Some days you are the pigeon, some days you are the statue.)
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To: Charles Martel

Yup, and Sophia doesn’t have a clue as to the RICO statues. The plant manager should be arrested too and if more than 5 workers are illegal, he needs to do at least 6 months in the county jail.


36 posted on 04/18/2008 2:53:52 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: Selmore
Simple means to deport the illegals. No jobs whatsoever, punish business owners for hiring illegals, and no government handouts....Period. Many will then self deport.
37 posted on 04/18/2008 2:56:45 AM PDT by RSmithOpt (Liberalism: Highway to Hell)
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To: Selmore

Yep. You would think they would realize that by now since John McCain is our nominee.


38 posted on 04/18/2008 12:13:46 PM PDT by Antonio C (God bless John McCain, George W. Bush, and our troops)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

“Hispanic” is not a racial classification. It is interesting you would try to make it into one, however.


39 posted on 04/18/2008 12:16:53 PM PDT by Antonio C (God bless John McCain, George W. Bush, and our troops)
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To: RSmithOpt
A more realistic solution would be to allow all family members of illegal immigrants to stay if one member of their family agrees to serve in the military.

John McCain is planning on vastly increasing the size of our military and since not enough native born Americans are willing to serve their country, illegal immigrants should be given an incentive to do so.
40 posted on 04/18/2008 12:28:52 PM PDT by Antonio C (God bless John McCain, George W. Bush, and our troops)
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