Newsflash: Americans applying for the jobs illegal aliens were doing
But wait. The open-borders folks are always telling us these are jobs Americans won’t do. John “Lettuce” McCain doesn’t think these Americans exist, either. Yet here they are, American citizens lining up to do the work illegal aliens were doing (just like they did after the Colorado Swift raids):
Howard Industries found itself at the center of activity again Tuesday.
Hundreds of job applicants lined up, eager to take advantage of the sudden job openings at the plant located in Jones County, where the unemployment rate is 6.3 percent.
ICE agents on Monday seized 595 plant workers suspected of being in the country illegally. Several workers, who did not identify themselves, said Tuesday they were working and trying to keep the plant operational in the wake of the sudden loss of co-workers.
They said it was common knowledge many of their co-workers were suspected to be illegal.
It’s an idea that maddens Samantha Stevens, 18, of Heidelberg, who was among those who pulled up to Avenue A across from the plant’s entrance throughout the day. She said she has been unable to find a job since she graduated from Heidelberg High School in the spring and blames, in part, the willingness of companies to hire illegal workers.
“We were here first. It’s not fair for them to have a job,” she explained.
Others welcomed the vacancies left by the detained workers.
Gwendolyn Watkins, 40, of Stonewall said she drove 40 miles to Laurel to fill out an application with the electronics maker. She worked at Tower Automotive in Meridian as a production worker for eight months before job cuts in June left her unemployed.
She now hopes to get on at Howard, and said that, while “everyone needs a job,” she believes that legal workers should be the priority.
Who’s looking out for them?
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YUMMMMMMMY, Thank you Mother state. (See, it’s easy to be ruled by Obama.)
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McCain insisted none of them would do such menial labor for a complete season. “You can’t do it, my friends.”
bagoh20,
It can not be profiling if you check every single employee regardless of any preconditions. Also, make it known on the application (in spanish too) that you will be checking 100% of the applications and watch how many simply take one and leave never to be seen again.
We simply need the will. Excuses will not do it.
I hate when people break the law, but not all violations are the same. I doubt that those who say they would put a family out on the street after knowing them and befriending them just because they wanted to survive and improve their life are not being honest, at least I hope. I would turn in my own brother for robbery, but not for lying to get a job to feed his family. I hope he would find another way but if he did it, I would not work to destroy him. Did you ever wonder how those people who hunted down attacked their friends and neighbors in communist purges could do it? “They broke the law and that hurts us all.” was their justification
ABSOLUTELY!!! My oldest daughter starts college in a few weeks and had a horrible time looking for work. She started back in May, turned in 17 applications with 4 interviews, and barely a nibble.
She was so upset because she knows college is expensive and doesn’t want to be a burden. She started helping my wife clean out horse stalls to offset the cost of my youngest daughter’s horse lease.
When I hear people talk about “jobs American’s won’t do”, I just want to smack them (hard!) upside the head.
Even though I would prefer to hump a ruck, I’m pretty sure that when I was humping a ruck in the Persian Gulf, I would have prefered to pick lettuce in Arizona for $50/hr. It sure as heck would have been 25 degrees cooler, a lot shorter hours and a lot less weight on my back.
Then again, I currently have a head of lettuce turning brown in my frig (see above)…. I think I’ll go to the gym now….
bagoh20,
Noble intentions, however:
1. Once we begin to take this seriously and end the abuse people will stop putting themselves in this position.
2. When we stop the flood of illegals coming across the border, Mexico will either have to fix their corrupt system or be over run by the populace. Viva la Revolution!
3. When we stop making excuses and do what is right FOR AMERICANS this country will be a better place.
4. By your logic, as well intentioned as you may be (I’m giving you the benefit of the doubt as I do not know you personally), why shouldn’t every nation less fortunate than the US simply put all of their poor on ships and send them to the US.
We can “what if” forever or we can do something. Which do you choose?
Oh, and all violations are the same-ILLEGAL. They just have different consequences.
dominigan said:
Me to, Me to!!!!!!! Everyone I know has or had jobs like these.
Dont get me wrong, Im not that much of a hardass. I’ve had to say “No la migra” many many times in rescue/medical situations. Otherwise I could choose to be a Border Patrol agent or an immigration officer.
Just seeing where you draw your own line…
Not to monopolize this thread, but there is a reason everyone wants to come here to the US. The more we socialize to be more like the rest of the (less successful) “enlightened” the more we destroy the system that has worked so well for 200+ years. Total equality is a pipe dream. Ask the rank and file russian if he had a vacation cabin, a mistress in fur and all the food he could eat like the politburo members.
Orwell had it exactly right: “All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.”
I hate when i hear: The jobs americans won’t do! Here’s a reallity check:
A lot of the illegal immigrants are very educated and looking for good jobs. Lots of them came here as tourists and overstayed their visa. That means they were at least part of midlle class in their country to qualify for a visa. Some are Engineers, school teachers, etc… They come here and look for high paying labor work,(americans would love to have those jobs too) such as waiting table at fine restaurants where you can make 3000.00 a month or more. Some, start their own bussiness (landscaping, home remodeling, car shop, beauty salon….)Often in their community(but not always). And they hire other illegals often the ones that did not qualify for visa (usually from their country/community) and in some cases pay less than minimum wage.(yes some americans hire illegals too)
If you open a business in russian community you have to hire russian speaking employees to communicate with your mainly russian speaking costumers. Who needs to learn english?
It’s not that americans won’t do those jobs… Is that some imigrants segregate themselves in their communities and americans have to learn their language and their culture to be welcome there. They will not hire americans there!
The jobs americans won’t do??? Oh, Please!!!!!!
speakeasy – right on. bagoh20 i guess it’s easy to create false documents, but i’m surprise you have never heard of hackers. you want to have picture ids on the internet next to your ss #. great, then anyone phishing with made up ss #s he can view people and see if that person looks like him. fingerprints or retinal scan. and yes little crimes lead to big crimes. how did giuliani clean up new york, by going after streetpeople peeing on the sidewalk as well as organized crime. i am not holier than thou, but when we start deciding which laws are REALLY important and which aren’t, soon we have every vice crime SPONSORED by our government. gambling, recreational drugs, porn, and prostitution have all become legalized or overlooked by our government. is this the country you want your children/grandchildren to live in? when i grew up, we could play outside without our bodyguards. we could read english, do our gozintos, and knew that abe lincoln was a republican. our priests weren’t openly gay pedophiles, and women who had children out of wedlock were tramps your parents told you to stay away from. today we are turning over a nation to our next generation which has gambling in every state, phone sex, escort services, porn online, lipstick parties in jr. high, and kids who don’t think oral sex is sex. that’s a long way in 56 years, and it all began by dodging the draft and smoking dope in the 60s. every generation before the baby boomers worked and fought to leave a better country to their children, so what’s wrong with us now.
As much as I would like to blame hippies and draft dodgers for all of the ills of the country, “Every generation blames the generation before”
Elvis, James Dean, Swing dancing in the 40’s, Harlem/Flappers/Jazz in the 20’s, Laudanum and Coke at the turn of century, and so on
I have been making two separate points: I agree we have to stop hiring them and stop allowing them across the border. Both require federal fixes in infrastructure. Hackers don’t stop us from using the internet for everything else, credit cards banking, etc. My other separate point is if we now want to get serious, which we should, then we should not be crazy torch carriers burning all those who saw the unenforced policies as green lights. An analogy would be to get tough on 55 MPH speed limits and go back now and confiscate cars from people seen speeding in the past. If we make the rules serious then employers will respond immediately and immigrants will self deport. If we attack people it will fail by turning people against it. You want to punish or fix it? You never exceed the speed limit? Every day, don’t you? Immigration enforcement has been just like that for decades.
I am about as anti illegal alien as they come. I have seen Texas changed dramatically in the psat 30 years for the worse (much of that due to the influx of illegals). I fully understand what you are saying as well. You are trying to do the right thing but it is as if the gov’t does not want you to. The gov’t is either to inept to handle this situation or they are bumbling it on purpose. I beleive the latter and it is all due to power and $. The dems liek the easy voters and malleable citizenry, and the repubs wnat to appease the cheap labor lobby. That’s IMHO of course. But I think you guys are being hard on bagoh20. Yes he shoudl fire any illegals he cna prove but I see his point. Once you have a good trained worker (that training is not cheap), which you know on a personal level (and friends to some degree) it makes it more difficult. The gov’t needs to make hiring illegals a zero tolerance policy and give the employers the tools (screw the PC profiling crap) to do the right thing. That will give ICE agents more time to go after the egregious employers of illegals. Anyway, my 2 cents. This is not near as bad as the business owners I have seen here and elsewhere who flaunt the hiring of illegals and tell us how lazy all Americans are.
And you wont read about this in the news anywhere, because that doesn’t support the liberal agenda to completely ruin this once-great country.
Were I an employer, it would be policy to confirm potential employee details, including citizenship status. I wonder when people will start suing companies for potentially lost income if that company hires an illegal while an American goes without a job. In fact I’m amazed nobody is doing it already – but time’s running out, amnesty is coming no matter who takes the POTUS spot. Once that’s in place, you can bet groups like CAIR will be suing companies that don’t employ amnesty-legals.
Weary Citizen,
Exactly! Since my circle of friends is about 50% Hispanic, and I’m an employer I know a lot about this. I’m usually arguing against illegals, often one on one with them. This is my country and I love it so that’s where my passion is. My area has really gone to hell in the last 20 years from this. I understand the anger, but it worries me, and makes our side look bad. We did nothing in the past to stop illegals. They often agree with me that they should not be here, and understand our displeasure, but when you hear why they are here, it is hard to say you would not do the same. We should still stop illegal immigration, but not forget that we were born American completely by accident. It sucks to not be that lucky. What a gift, no wonder people want some.
nyc123me,
Problem is you can’t confirm anything right now. If you were an employer you would know that every document is fraudulently reproduced perfectly. The system is improving though and people are self deporting as we get tougher. I think we could make great progress, but the current two candidates for POTUS are both on the wrong side of this.
Understand, but I am unequivocally against amensty. For any reason. That will effectively drown the US in new immigrants (20-30M amnestied who then bring 2-3 more immigrants each via chain migration). It will break the treasury without punitive taxes (95% of the new citizens will be unskilled and/or illiterate). So long cultural cohesion. So long english as dominant language……
I undestand a business point of view, as long as they are trying to do the right thing, but I adhere to 2 principles. 1) DRY UP THE MAGNETS that draw and keep them here. No jobs. No welfare. No ANCHOR BABIES (my pet peeve). No hope of citizenship. Make it uncomfortable to live here illegally. No need to come illegally if there is no economic benfit to it. 2) ATTRITION of the illegals here. Once you dry up the magnets, over time those here will leave. Give employers 1 year to verify the status of their employees and and find nad hire AMerican replacements. After that grace period hefty fines and potential loss of business will follow for repeat egregious offenders. It’s an orderly exit and allows them to get their affairs in order as well as giving businesses the opprtunity to come clean.
Weary Citizen,
I agree 100%, but there will be great gnashing of teeth and the sob stories (real and not)will be deafening.
Please call McCain, he needs it.
We will never solve this problem if we keep making excuses. My neice is in jail right now because she kept stealing things from her brother…practically bankrupted him and her dad. It was a hard thing to do but she is where she belongs. Hopefully she will learn a lesson. Tough choices have to be made.
By all. Thanks for the exercise.
well, well, well. So americans DO want these jobs. And they should get first crack at them. Other businesses that do hire actual citizens have to deal with paying market wages. This plant cannot be an except to that—they have to pay marekt wages just like the rest of us.
ICE doing their job! Yes!!!! If there are NO jobs for the illegals, they will not come here, work for lower wages, and stress our social services. It is a beginning….. Now, lets get rid of the 2nd biggest attraction – Immediate Citizenship – NO Anchor Babies….. No American Citizenship unless your parent(s) is/are an American Citizen!
bagoh20, here’s an idea, call ice yourself and have them raid your business, then you don’t have to fire your illegal friends, and you KNOW who is legal or not. yeah i won’t hold my breath. and i live in a state where we have two parties, so the laws for speeding etc are compromises and by and large obeyed. 70mph on highways.
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Agreed. IMHO, the anchor baby nonsense is the very first thing that needs to be addressed. That is because that little “bundle of joy” is what assures the illegals the very greatest odds of being given citizenship. They use the baby for sympathy and sob story, which is nothing more than a con game of playing on our sympathies, but of course the msm and libs eat it up. It’s easy enough to deport someone who has no attachment other than a job, but it is becomes infinitely more complicated when an anchor baby is invovled (not for me but for the rest of hte suckers ) to deport. The next thing to tackle is elimination of all entitlements to illegals. No assistance of any kind should be given to someone here illegally. Jobs, must also be eliminated for them, but in terms of priorites, at least htose wiht a job are contributing something, but anchor babies and entitlemetn payments are sucking the life blood from the country. Once these actions ar ecompleted, we can then watch the illegal crossing virtualyl disappear wihtout having to sepnd $B’s on more BP, fences, or courst cases to deprot them. The additional benefit is ATTRITION of those here. This is hte best and only long term solution to the problem. Just my thoughts.
595 a day is all I ask. We’ll chip away at the 20 million illegals here until we’re done and American citizens have jobs again.
Yeah… and Boo Friggin’ Hoo that they have kids here. Take them back to your homeland where they have citizenship because they are your kids. Don’t come crying to us that you’re afraid to take your kids born here back to Mexico or where ever you illegally migrated from. That was YOUR choice to break the law. YOU deal with it. Adios.
Amen to that. I thank god for the internet. For the longest time I thought I was the only one that saw the complete idicoy of this illegal issue. It really isn’t that complicated. Just the libs and msm make it out to be to confuse the people. Glad to know there are others out there that are sick of this as I am.
Americans want jobs? I thought they just protested something every day.
/sarc