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Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
I can't believe with all that is going on around the world, and especially with jobs and the economy everyone is being driven to focus on the immigration issue.
If we eliminate the immigration problem we also eliminate a good size chunk of the other problems you mentioned. Nothing like killing two birds with one stone.
Originally posted by pajoly
reply to post by TheCoffinman
And so long as you are white and not an obvious target, you are perfectly fine with armed cops demanding "Papers please" with one hand on their side arms.
Originally posted by jam321
reply to post by Marked One
If we eliminate the immigration problem we also eliminate a good size chunk of the other problems you mentioned. Nothing like killing two birds with one stone.
Keep on dreaming.
Bet you 13 trillion dollars and counting it doesn't.
Originally posted by Marked One
If we eliminate the immigration problem we also eliminate a good size chunk of the other problems you mentioned. Nothing like killing two birds with one stone.
At least 32 guards in the short-staffed Texas prison system are on work visas — immigrant workers from Nigeria and Mexico, officials said Wednesday.
In the local homebuilding industry, some contractors estimate that as many as 80 percent or 90 percent of the workers who smooth concrete foundations, nail up house frames, install Sheetrock, paint walls and shingle roofs are here illegally. That figure doesn't sound overblown to Dwight Jones, an INS supervisory special agent in San Antonio.
"Construction, that's probably the biggest employer of illegal aliens in Austin, and most of those are working for subcontractors,'' Jones said. "There are probably illegal aliens working on any construction site (in Austin)."
The percentages may vary, but dependence on illegal labor is the same all over Texas and the Southwest, according to industry officials.
At the Texas Capitol Area Builders Association, which has 300 home builders among its 750 Central Texas members, Executive Vice President Harry Savio said the builders "recognize that a large percentage of the guys doing the work are immigrants.''
"We really don't talk that much about them being illegal,'' Savio said. "In fact, we don't talk about it hardly at all."
The builders can honestly say they don't employ illegal immigrants, said Ramiro Lazcano, 24, an illegal immigrant from Nuevo Leon who has worked as a framer and drywall installer in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Originally posted by LurkerMan
Obama criticized the hell out of Arizona,
But i bet you he wont say sh*t to Texas..