To those against illegal immigration
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Ruben Pineda
Published: May 10, 2008
Those against illegal immigration, starting today, boycott all Mexican products, including our food, beer, tequila and our labor. If you are an American in the construction industry, I suggest joining the Union, because then you aren’t at risk of a Mexican taking your job. Americans and many legal immigrants believe that by having papers, their work habits shouldn’t be up to par, which leaves “illegals” employed.
Those against illegal immigration seem to blame children of immigrants for America’s problem. I didn’t choose to be Mexican-American, I just got lucky.
Assimilation will never be achieved without some kind of amnesty, which may not even involve green cards, but valid IDs given by the DMV. Being able to identify the criminals is one way to solve this problem. But with one side crying full amnesty and the other crying mass deportation, things will only get worse.
You do not need to know English to be successful in this country and one counts as two by knowing two languages such as English and Spanish since they involve two very distinct communities.
Many “illegals” have studied the English language, and many have learned it. Other illegal and legal individuals may have it harder, since learning English at an older age is extremely difficult.
Those here “legally” may not even know English, but they receive your “respect” for having papers. Let’s be clear that “illegals” aren’t afraid to tell you they’re “illegal,” since they have nothing to hide. They may never have obtained a valid driver’s license in Virginia, but may have in another state or country. Illegal immigrants used to be able to obtain licenses in Virginia, but can no longer renew their expired licenses. We give the police department too much credit, since identifying an “illegal” for an officer couldn’t possibly be difficult. They continue to harass “illegals,” and invade homes without proper warrants, knowing “illegals” may not know what rights they have.
I could never be against illegal immigration, unless other than working, it poses an actual threat to the community as a whole, not just the minority voting population. My parents were both at one point illegal, and even though I was nothing more than an “anchor baby,” I proved to be more than just that.
RUBEN PINEDA
Manassas
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 15, 2008 at 11:40 am
Chris, look at it this way. When you play sports - there is a rule book. NASCAR, baseball, football, soccer. A rule book for each. A team wins by understanding and using those rules to its advantage. You may root for Dale Jr and hate it when Kyle Bush wins, but if he wins within the rules, well that’s the game. If you’re happy to play life and finish second on ‘high moral grounds’ that’s ok with me. I’m in business to feed my family and provide a retirement nest. If Washington says something is okay, then okay it is. I don’t make the rules, I just live by them. Next time I have a labor position open, do you want me to call you?
Posted by ( raywilliams ) on May 15, 2008 at 11:31 am
Chris, you puzzle me with your fondness for the Rule of Law one minute, then your opposition to it the next. I pass Virginia Employment Commission audits with flying colors and comply with all license and insurance requirements. As a business owner, I follow the Rule of Law as it pertains to my business. I have never even been questioned about my hiring practices by any government agency, so where do you get off casting a shadow on me? I pay more taxes than you, create jobs in our community, pay BPOL fees to all NOVA counties, do not get a ‘car tax’ break on my commercial vehicles etc. Who does PWC want more, you or me? I’d say me. If you read the book I suggested, you would understand American thrives on the backs of small businesses. And just think of who lobbies the government. Business. So please understand laws may be written to favor business interests and not your personal values. And I’m glad I do not share YOUR close-minded values.
Posted by ( zcxnissan ) on May 15, 2008 at 2:00 am
Ray when someone is an illegal it is crime and to hire more than 10 illegals is a felony as well as it being another crime to transport, aid or abet an illegal in employment, housing, etc. I suggest you look up the law on this matter. So instead of paying the fine for illegally why can’t this very same illegal enter legally with documentation? Why can’t he wait in line like the rest of us? We already let in a million legal immigrants a year, far more than any other country in the world. Why should we have to bear the burden of the costs of someone who enters here illegally, takes a legal immigrants job, steals social services he is not entitled too, and uses our emergency rooms as regular doctor’s visits thus driving up the costs of healthcare for all legal immigrants. Let us not mention the higher crime rates caused by illegal immigrants supported by GAO numbers, FBI, and Justice Dept. figures. Other think tanks and groups like to lump legal immigrants in with those figures to distort the numbers in favor of illegal immigrants. Lies, lies, and more lies. Chris Cummings
Posted by ( zcxnissan ) on May 15, 2008 at 1:48 am
I agree Phdee we should have multiple verifiable id’s when purchasing a house, getting a driver’s license, marriage license, green card, legal alien card, etc. and the soc. sec. card is one of them or a national id that can be verified and checked. To Ray and i need not to quote anyone famous, pleas show some respect for the law and do not give away legal immigrant jobs to illegal immigrants, it is patently unfair, against the law, discriminatory, etc. Phdee records may be hard to come by but you should be able to find some record of birth and death as well as marriage. Their are very few gaps like that in my ancestry going back many centuries even though some records have been hard to find. Poor record keeping is the most likely culprit, more so than nobody trying to keep track of this info. Chris Cummings
Posted by ( phdee ) on May 14, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Barnum,I guess the difference between you and me is tyhat Idid get an education in school and while growing up, whereas you clearly did not. Ever read Erskine Caldwell’s novels on Southern racism? And old yellow is a good story. An educated person does not wrap himself up in a racist cocoon like in Mabassas and PWC and pretend thqat’s the world. Or is that all you can talK about, i.e. hate, racism, bigotry? What a horrible existence!! Oh, are you biased against sharecroppers like you are against day laborers? So I blend my past into what is going on today? And what exactly is wrong with that? You being a first class racist, what do you say about blacks who blend the civil rights movement and segregation into today’s PWC environment? I see a relevance; you don’t. You can’t even think. If you tried, the sudden rush of blood to your brain would cause you to have a stroke.
Posted by ( barnun ) on May 14, 2008 at 4:41 pm
phdee, you seem to read old dime store novels about old yeller and share croppers and then somehow blend them as part of your own past. this happens a lot with addicts. Next to try to make this somehow relevant to what is going on in our country today. Get help, really.
Posted by ( phdee ) on May 14, 2008 at 3:29 pm
zcx, people with no birth certificates or SS cards lived years ago when registrations were ot required. I do some geneol.ogy research, and in many places there are “no records” of births, deaths, marriages, etc. Laws today hav e made changes. My SS card even says that the card is not to be used for identification purposes. Well, it sure is used as such today.
Posted by ( Blkjewelz8960 ) on May 14, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Everyone concentrates on the affect illegals have on the business community, taxes, schools, etc. However, no one examines the issue from a health standpoint. Within the last year, I have been diagnosed with Interstitial Lung Disease—thus, I have chronic inflammation in my lungs. I was going to take a vacation in Cancun but my pulmonary doctor advised against travelling to Mexico because of high instances of TB and sanitary conditions of the water supply. Thus, my major concern in regards to illegal immigrants from any country are quite different, mine are health reasons.
Foreign countries have diseases we are not equipped to deal with here in the States or that are not prevelant here. From a health standpoint, every person entering into the U.S. needs to be documented.
Just think if the U.S. citizen who returned to the U.S. had not been documented and was running free in the U.S. no one would of known how to contact him or his whereabouts. Our country is at risk of exposure to diseases we are not equipped to deal with. This is especially dreadful to those of us with suppressed immune systems.
Posted by ( illegals are criminals ) on May 14, 2008 at 10:39 am
Identity Theft! Last time I heard, that is ILLEGAL!
May 9, 2008
Feds: Car washes hired illegal aliens
By BEN FINLEY
The Intelligencer
Five managers of area car washes owned by the Horsham-based Car Care Inc. are accused of knowingly employing illegal immigrants and providing stolen identities for them.
None of the car washes are in Bucks County.
Timothy Gibson, 36, of Thornridge Drive in Falls, one of the managers, faces up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release if convicted, officials said.
Gibson was the manager of the Super Bright Car Wash on East Germantown Pike in Norristown in 2005 and 2006, when 90 percent of its workers were found to be illegal immigrants, according to the federal indictment.
The managers employed the illegal immigrants under the names and identities of former, legitimate employees. Each stolen identity, including a Social Security number, was assigned to several illegal immigrants over time, so the managers wouldn’t have to file termination papers when the workers quit, according to court documents.
The illegal immigrants were paid minimum wage or better, officials said. The stolen identities allowed the immigrants to cash or deposit their checks at local banks.
The illegal workers’ wages were filed with the Internal Revenue Service under the stolen names, which will likely have some tax implications for the former, legal car wash employees, U.S. Attorney Patrick L. Meehan said Thursday at a press conference in Philadelphia.
Go to http://www.wehirealiens.com and report them!
Posted by ( zcxnissan ) on May 14, 2008 at 2:27 am
Phdee records get lost all the time or entered incorrectly and sometimes records are not even made. I would like to think that records of all births in the US are made now. A lot of these mistakes happened last century and in previous centuries. there is no excuse for them now especially with electronic and physical documentation. If you have no birth certificate and no soc sec card it is only natural that you should be denied everything that one who posseses these documents should receive. Chris Cummings