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To: SerpentDove; All
Excuse me if I am repeating others... but doesn't it seem logical that if illegals couldn't find work or services they wouldn't come here?

As long as companies continue to hire them in place of teenagers and legal Americans, we will have this problem. Yes, for sure there are many businesses that will not hire American teenagers in certain areas, and for good reason I'm told. Also, I know of an area where the McDonalds pays incredibly high hourly wages and then has to bus workers from Philadelphia because the locals think its beneath them to do MikeyD's work.

North Carolina packing houses legally import Mexican labor for the crabbing season to do work the locals won't... they would rather be on welfare than pick crabs... or let Mommy and Daddy mortgage the house for college tuition. [By the way, I understand piece-work crab picking pays @$40,000 for a 9 month season. And for the Mexican laborers... it all goes back to Mexico.]

Seems like there is way too much blame in the wrong place here. And boycotting a business because they hire illegals might sound like a good idea, but what are you going to do... ask for papers from every working Hispanic? How do you tell the illegals from the legals when you are ordering a hamburger?

When I was a youngun US Steel hired summer help and most of the young men in my area (Levittown and Fairless Hills) earned college tuition during the summer months... with plenty left over for a car and dates. US Steel is no longer, not to worry about illegal aliens... the steel production is overseas. So now the kids live off the old man's money.

Who do we blame? And more seriously.. what the heck do we do about it? I seriously wish I had the answer... or saw an answer in all these posts. Putting up an iron curtain across our borders just doesn't seem like a well-thoughtout plan to me... but then I don't have anything better to offer.
251 posted on 05/20/2003 11:20:09 AM PDT by myrabach
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To: myrabach
Excuse me if I am repeating others... but doesn't it seem logical that if illegals couldn't find work or services they wouldn't come here?

Can I be truthful here?

Have you seen the crime close up created by illegal aliens? The drunk driving carnage? The murders? The rapes? Robberies? The never ending fraud and theft?

Have you stood at Broadway and Olympic in Sprawling Los Angeles and looked at the hundreds of thousands of illegals that have turned that once great city into a nightmare of crime, fraud, drugs, cheap tacky stores that are commonly seen in cities like Tijuana?

Ever walked down the big city, anywhere in the southwest United States, and looked at any given intersection, where you will see literally thousands of poor, uneducated illegals pushing multiple baby carriages, surrounded by crowds of other small children. While most all of the women that are pushing baby carriages appear to pregnant? This is on every single corner of almost every single intersection and bus stop. Are they all here to work?

Areas of once nice homes and neighborhoods now filled with 20 or 30 people to a house, involved in every criminal act known to man? So bad that every good neighbor, regardless of race has fled.

Ever seen the organized gangs made up of illegal aliens that prey upon the innocent Hispanics, women and children, or anyone else that crosses their path? Brutal people that don't give a damn about you. People that aren't afraid of your laws or your jails....

Do you honestly think these *millions* of illegals are all here to bus dishes and mow lawns?

Do you really think these people are not choking off our limited social services that were met for American citizens. The social strain caused by this is epic.

Have you ever conducted a criminal fraud investigation involving illegal aliens that make a living counterfeiting anything of value, producing fraudulent ID, SSNs, dealing drugs, prostitution, theft, robbery, and realized that's it's so out of control, so deep, so wide spread, that some people in the business have just fled, realizing this is borderline uncontrollable and down right frightening to even a seasoned investigator?

And finally, do you not think that the illegals that actually want to work are not taking jobs from Americans? Driving down the wages? Driving up our taxes?

Go take a look for yourself. Go alone. Spend a week. Take a hard look.

255 posted on 05/20/2003 11:25:34 AM PDT by Joe Hadenuf
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To: myrabach; All
>> Putting up an iron curtain across our borders<<

How about enforcing existing laws? Is that out of the question?

Employers SHOULD ask for papers from every working Mexican. That is the law. Is that unreasonable?

I don't see what's so outrageous about enforcing existing laws. But somehow, if someone suggests this, they are being absurd and unreasonable.

Crazy world we live in.
256 posted on 05/20/2003 11:25:58 AM PDT by SerpentDove (Each post focus-group tested for maximum wallop.)
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To: myrabach
Putting up an iron curtain across our borders just doesn't seem like a well-thoughtout plan to me...

Speaking for myself I don't want to see an iron curtain either, just that the border is closed to illegal trafffic, and that all immigration is kept legal.

259 posted on 05/20/2003 11:30:29 AM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
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To: myrabach
ask for papers from every working Hispanic

In California for the last 12 to 15 years or so, whenever I have been hired for a new job, I have to show a social security card and a birth certificate to prove I am legal to work in this country. Its always angered me that the law requires that employers check your status, and employers who don't do it never suffer any consequences.
440 posted on 09/12/2003 9:43:02 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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