“Day Without Immigrants

News:
A nationwide boycott, intended to illustrate the integral role that undocumented workers play in the U.S. economy, is underway today. Plans for the day vary; while some are set to skip school or work, others will only protest on their lunch breaks. Employer reaction is divided as well, and though some businesses are closed for the day, workers elsewhere who plan to take part in the demonstration fear they may not be have jobs to return to. Some reports suggest that division in the ranks of immigrant rights’ advocates may weaken the strength of today’s protests, though past demonstrations have consistently surpassed even organizers’ expectations.

Another pinhead named.....

......George.

"Who gave the illegal aliens the advice to protest today?"
And this matters Why?

"They have got to be as stupid as George W. Bush."
I can agree with a PART of this....you guess which part.

"We found out it is nice not to have them at work today."
Maybe, maybe not.

We don't need their music. We don't need their booze. We don'r need their food. We don't need their dope. We don't need their crime. We do need laws."
I dunno, I like the music, I like the booze, I like the food a LOT. I don't know about the dope, but neither do I care, your choice. No, we don't need anybody's crime, including citizens like you. And we don't need laws as much as we need justice. Laws can help get justice, laws can prevent achieving justice. Good judgement and a love of justice is far more rewarding than a blind adherence to "law and order. And, you know what, we really don't NEED you, either, if you get right down to it.

"We need to enforce laws. Because our authoroties have been negligent and not enforcing the laws doesn't take away the laws. We still have laws. Let's start enforcing laws."
Ok, how much are you willing spend, in the form of tax increases at federal, state, and local levels, to accomplish this increased enforcement???? 10 percent? 20 percent? 50 percent? Any amount, because laws are the most important thing in the whole world?

"OK, to the real crime. The US employers who illegally hire illegal aliens to work for them, and pay them unlawful substandard wages. The way to correct this wrong is to give the miscreant US employers huge fines until they do right."
Ok, now yer talkin'.

"When the illegal aliens cannot be paid here (the way it should always have been) they will find which way is home, and go. That will open up jobs for unemployed and underemployed US CITIZENS. The employers will just have to act like Americans and pay their workers the wgas they always should have."
I would also aid their repatriation, if requested, and if they turned themselves in voluntarily. And give them a packet of info. and forms for applying for immigration. And a couple of bucks, too.

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William Gladstone, 4-time Prime Minister of Great Britain.

By rocklibMay 1, 2006 - 4:40pm