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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (1602)	5/21/2007 1:50:11 AM
From: RinConRon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3197

<Hat tip to Lindy Bill at the Politics for Pros board. More Immigration News Old Media Thinks You Can't Use: Swift Returns to Full Staffing Levels BIZZYBLOG If you believe the hype from the open-borders crowd about how illegal immigrants "are doing jobs other won't do," you would have to wonder how this ever happened (the following is from a May 11 company press release): Swift & Company Announces Return of Standard Staffing Levels at All Four Domestic Beef Processing Facilities Pork Processing Facilities Resumed Normal Production in March Swift & Company today reported its return to standard staffing levels at all four domestic beef processing facilities after the detention and removal, on December 12, 2006, of approximately 950 Swift Beef employees by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") division. The December 2006 ICE event also involved two Swift Pork processing facilities. As the Company announced on April 10, 2007, Swift's domestic pork operations returned to normal levels in March 2007. ICE detained and removed a total of nearly 1,300 Swift Beef and Swift Pork employees during the December 2006 event. A terse Associated Press story on the announcement that gained very little circulation made sure to remind us that "Operations at Swift plants in Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Texas and Hyrum, Utah, were suspended for several hours on Dec. 12 while immigration agents arrested 1,217 workers. No company managers have been charged." Somehow, AP "forgot" to tell us that, as reported by the Greeley, Colorado Tribune the previous week (requires free registration), that at just one of the facilities involved: ….. 261 warrants (were issued) for workers in Greeley who were using other people's Social Security numbers or names to gain employment at Swift. It was unclear how the workers obtained those identities. ICE discovered the identity thefts after victims from different parts of the country reported suspicious changes in their credit. Some people received Social Security statements that showed a history of employment at Swift, but the victims had never worked there. Back to the main topic — How did Swift manage to find all those (presumably legal) workers? A One News Now story has what will be a "surprising" answer for the economic wing of the open-borders lobby: Steve Elliot is president of Grassfire.org, an organizing center for conservative activists. He is calling the company's achievement the "Swift Miracle." ….. Swift had no problem finding people to fill the positions formerly held by illegal aliens, the Grassfire.org spokesman contends. "Just a few months after they were busted by government officials, they had no problem filling those positions with Americans who are willing to do those jobs and earn a living in the meat-packing industry," he says. Elliot insists the meat company's story completely debunks the argument by advocates for open borders that the U.S. government must give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the country. "[T]his just blows holes in one of the biggest arguments of the amnesty agenda: that illegals are coming here to do jobs Americans won't do," he adds. "It's simply not true," he says; "Americans will do these jobs if given the opportunity." Thanks to the "Swift Miracle," Eliot says, those who support the open borders/amnesty agenda can no longer use the jobs excuse to justify the flood of illegal immigrants into the U.S. The filling of the Swift jobs is yet another against-the-grain immigration-related story that Old Media has downplayed. Yet it "somehow" has found the time and attention for: - "Swift raids leave immigrant families separated" - "Impact of Swift raid still being felt" - "Greeley mayor urges changes in ICE raids" - "Somali Workers Quit Over Prayer Dispute" (at a Swift plant) bizzyblog.com

To: Tadsamillionaire who wrote (1602)	5/21/2007 4:27:31 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3197

Americans comment on the Senate's immigration bill: >>Employers do not have a “right” to a plentiful supply of dirt cheap labor. If you have a task that needs to be done, you may offer a job, and you may offer it at minimum wage with no benefits. But if no one accepts your offer, you must either improve the offer until someone accepts, do the job yourself, or let the job go undone. People are tired of employers who attract illegal immigrants by offering them employment, but stick it to the community for the health care and other services that illegal immigrants use but can’t pay for<< >>Our representatives need to do the will of the American people and stop pandering to business looking for cheap labor. Stop them at the border and set the conditions so they go home. No amesty, no reward for breaking the law.<< >>Too many people have used the farm labor problem as an excuse to look the other way. Now the same is happening in the building industry. The illegals and especially the people hiring them are reaping the financial benefits. Not only should all immigrants have papers, a child should not automatically become a U.S. citizen just because they are born on U.S. soil. Why should anyone visiting in another country, legally or illegally, expect their child to automatically gain citizenship just because they are born there?<< >>Obviously, Congressional Democrats (and Republican panderers) ARE NOT going to offer meaningful immigration legislation as long as they are controlled by special interests.<< >>Do these idiots not remember the amnesty bill of 1986? The “enforcement” part of that bill went by the wayside quickly, and the “enforcement” (cough) provisions of this bill will, too. And, for all those “compassionate” people who only care about the illegals who want jobs, how about showing some of your “compassion” by not wanting to create a permanent underclass to provide you with slave labor?<<