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Day laborers accused of assault say their boss didn't pay them
N. Jersey Media Group ^ | Dec. 21, 2007 | MEREDITH MANDELL

Posted on 12/22/2007 6:41:58 AM PST by AuntB

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I find it interesting that aliens despise our laws, break our labor and immigration laws, but want the LAW and the USA to defend them when all doesn't go according to their plan.

Ya gotta love the part about NONE of them speaking English, even the Polish contractor!

1 posted on 12/22/2007 6:42:01 AM PST by AuntB
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To: AuntB

Screw ‘em. Send ‘em back where they came from if they aren’t here legally...and keep their money!


2 posted on 12/22/2007 6:48:07 AM PST by Andonius_99 (There are two sides to every issue. One is right, the other is wrong; but the middle is always evil.)
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What kind of mother names her kid Coyote-catalaca?

Is it the model of Mexican transportation she got pregnant in?

And what is a Jitney bus? I live in the United States, and I've never seen nor heard of a Jitney bus before.

3 posted on 12/22/2007 6:55:58 AM PST by joshhiggins
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To: AuntB
The same thing happened to Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of Sierra Madre

4 posted on 12/22/2007 7:02:59 AM PST by Krankor (kROGER)
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To: AuntB

The problem of illegal immigration should be handled first and foremost at the border.

As a second line of defense, employers who knowingly hire illegals should be heavily fined and the employees deported.

As for those who try to rip any laborer off, legal or illegal, and run, in effect, a slave-labor operation, they should be heavily fined and spend some time in jail.

There are no good actors here, from the US government on down.


5 posted on 12/22/2007 7:04:02 AM PST by samtheman (Huckabee. A Bible-Packing Leftist.)
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To: AuntB

Wow... getting your butt kicked by Jesus... who is going to believe that?


6 posted on 12/22/2007 7:04:46 AM PST by pnh102
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These illegal aliens are being exploited by unscrupulous employers.

They are two "wrongs" here. If we fixed the immigration problem, they both would go away.

7 posted on 12/22/2007 7:05:42 AM PST by outofstyle (My Ride's Here)
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“And what is a Jitney bus? I live in the United States, and I’ve never seen nor heard of a Jitney bus before.”

It’s not your Daddy’s USA anymore....


8 posted on 12/22/2007 7:05:55 AM PST by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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**** And what is a Jitney bus? I live in the United States, and I’ve never seen nor heard of a Jitney bus before. ****

A ‘Jitney’ is an illegal, unlicensed ... uh UNDOCUMENTED’ (sarc) vehicle that drives people for a fee. In big city ghettos they have ‘Jitney Cabs’.

The 'Jitney Bus' musat be a new 'immigrant' thing :-)

9 posted on 12/22/2007 7:07:19 AM PST by Condor51 (I wouldn't vote for Rooty under any circumstance -- even if Waterboarded!)
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Diana Mejia, president of Wind of the Spirit, a Morristown-based immigrant rights group, has worked with the Passaic day laborers and said their story demonstrates how the lack of regulation over immigrant laborers can prove disastrous.

Well, then don't come here to work illegally. Problem solved!

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Gallindo, who visited the men in jail, said the men understood that they would keep the tools as collateral for payment -- $180 a day per person.

$180 a day per person? For illegal alien day laborers? That's $18 per hour for their "10 hour day". Not likely!

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"It would be a very sad ending if these three men who were here to work hard and put food on the table, who put in honest work and weren't paid who beat the crap out of their boss and stole his tools and were then arrested, would be forced to separate from their children," Sapone said.

There, fixed it.

10 posted on 12/22/2007 7:08:01 AM PST by Reagan is King (Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave.)
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"It would be a very sad ending if these three men who were here to work hard and put food on the table, who put in honest work and weren't paid and were then arrested, would be forced to separate from their children," Sapone said.

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Why are their children here instead of back home? Who pays for their day care or schooling? What do they do when they get sick?

Do you know how many Europreans, Asians, Africans and South Americans come here and work hard to send money home to their families? I personally know many. Why is it that the mexicans are the only ones who get to bring the whole village with them at our expense?

11 posted on 12/22/2007 7:08:56 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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"Even if it was true that these men worked for the victim all day, and he didn't pay them, it would not allow them to assault him or take his nail guns," Rowan said in a telephone interview Thursday.

Oh yes it would! What are these guys gonna do? Take him to court? If you hire illegal immigrants you get what you deserve.

12 posted on 12/22/2007 7:15:25 AM PST by sazerac
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He acknowledged that the three are in the country illegally.

The US courts are not available to them. Deport them. Case closed.

13 posted on 12/22/2007 7:15:26 AM PST by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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It’s odd that this “Polish contractor” is never named, almost as odd as “Coyotecatl-Aca” for a Mexican surname.

But, as far as I’m concerned, these three scammers got scammed themselves. All parties involved broke the law, and should be hauled before a judge. Assault and battery, theft, immigration violations and probably identity theft for the three. Tax evasion at a minimum for the unnamed Polish contractor.


14 posted on 12/22/2007 7:18:03 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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Why is it that the mexicans are the only ones who get to bring the whole village with them at our expense?

It is because they can just walk over the border!

15 posted on 12/22/2007 7:19:51 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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"...charged with robbery and facing possible deportation ..."

Why are they not facing Certain Deportation?

16 posted on 12/22/2007 7:22:03 AM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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I knew that....my question is why do we allow/encourage it.


17 posted on 12/22/2007 7:23:29 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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I can’t take anyone’s side on this one. The immigrants are breaking the law by being here, and the guy who got beat up is a bum looking for cheap labor, and then cheating them out of their money.


18 posted on 12/22/2007 7:26:43 AM PST by popdonnelly (Get Reid. Salazar, and Harkin out of the Senate.)
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And what is a Jitney bus? I live in the United States, and I've never seen nor heard of a Jitney bus before.

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I guess it depends on where in the US you live. Jitneys are well known around NYC/LI. The most famous is the 'Hamptons Jitney' that delivers folks from NYC to the East End.

Sections of Queens and Brooklyn run unlicensed "gypsy" 15 passenger vans along City Bus routes. They charge charge less and are more flexible about where they will stop to take on or drop off passengers. They are also called jitneys.

19 posted on 12/22/2007 7:27:33 AM PST by wtc911 ("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
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We need Judge Judy or Judge Mathis to sort this all out.


20 posted on 12/22/2007 7:28:33 AM PST by shaft29
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