IT's ABOUT Time...

[Detector]

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12410887/

More than half of the company’s roughly 5,800 employees during 2005 had invalid or mismatched Social Security numbers, the government alleges.

The case began after officials got a tip that IFCO workers in Guilderland, N.Y., were seen ripping up their W-2 income statement forms because they did not intend to file tax returns, Chertoff said.

“There were 10 to 20 people living in a house sleeping on air mattresses.

I'd say this pretty much validates what most of us have been saying and kinda make the claims "They clean our toilets and water our gardens" sound a bit superficial.

[TexKan]

OMG.............. ya mean maybe, perhaps,per chance, there is actually a glimmer of hope that we are not RACIST??????? and perpetuating the stereotype????????????????............. aw hell now was much more fun being too prejeduced............ darn now we actually will have to admit............. we were pretty damn right on alot of things............. common sense...... what a concept!!!

[TexKan]

THE GAME OF CATCH AND RELEASE
By Michelle Malkin · April 20, 2006 11:27 PM
See, I told you so. This morning I told you that the immigration raid dog-and-pony show would result in most of the illegal aliens arrested being released. The New York Times reports in tomorrow' edition (hat tip Thomas Galvin):

The arrests took place just days before the Senate reconvenes with immigration laws on its agenda. Earlier this month, the Senate faltered in its efforts to develop a proposal that would have given most illegal immigrants a chance to become citizens while intensifying border patrol and deportation efforts. And in recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of immigrants and their supporters have demonstrated in response to a bill passed in the House in December that would speed deportations, tighten border security and criminalize illegal immigrants.
In the action on Wednesday, federal officials detained 1,187 illegal immigrants working in 26 states for IFCO Systems North America, a subsidiary of a company based in the Netherlands that supplies plastic containers and wood pallets used to ship a variety of goods, from fruit to computers.

Of the 1,187 detained workers, 275 have already been deported to Mexico. The rest are being processed for deportation, although many may be released on bond.


Released...never to be seen again.

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Reader H. reports from Houston:

Local Houston News is reporting that they released the majority of the "undocumented" workers. The ICE agent that was speaking went out of his way to say that the were no politics involved. Heaven forbid they actually show backbone. You were right on the catch and release. Amazingly, these people were told to return to court on a later date based on their, get this, signature.
More from KHOU:

There was a crackdown Wednesday and dozens of illegal immigrants were arrested. Many of those same immigrants were released just hours laterIt was the last thing they, and their families, expected. "They are not criminals. All they're here for is to work for their family," said Mariz Gomez. And that's what they were doing making wooden pallets at two different locations when federal agents swooped in and took nearly 70 suspected undocumented workers to this federal detention center in north Houston.
"Just for them to come in here and to just throw them back to where they go. That's not right for them," said Gomez.

Families 11 News spoke with feared the men mostly from Central American countries would be deported.

But that was hardly the case.

Just five hours later Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents began releasing the undocumented workers.

"I was surprised by the quick release," said a man who asked that his face not be shown. Several others made the same request.

It is not clear why these immigrants were released so quickly but workers say it may be because the 950-bed facility was severely overcrowded.

The workers say they were told the facilities were full. Sources inside the facility say the same thing and that agents have been ordered to release immigrants as soon as possible.

Some of the workers say there were other problems Wednesday.

They said computers went down and agents had to scribble information, in one case, failing to write in a court date altogether.

The men we spoke with promised to show up for their immigration hearings, still finding it hard to believe they were released so soon.


Yup. Happens every day. Told you so.

[Highwayman]

I like rants by folks that came here the hard way. Here’s a sample and a link to the whole thing.

Illegal Immigration Is Not a Civil Right

Lest I am accused of being a racist or a xenophobe (epithets that are routinely hurled at conservative critics of immigration), I should perhaps provide a few personal details. Ideally, the legitimacy of your argument should not depend on who you are; rather, it should depend on the logic of your argument. But regrettably, in this age of political correctness, you are presumed to have no credibility on minority issues unless you are of a minority.

A Third World immigrant who went to a great deal of trouble to come here legally, I arrived here as a lone young man, brown-skinned, with very little money and a thick foreign accent--but a legal arrival nevertheless. I got my green card not by protesting down the street, but by waiting in line for years and obeying the rules. I never received any food stamps or welfare checks. Not a dime. A naturalized American, I am extremely proud of my U.S. citizenship since I know I obtained it the right way.

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14213

[jeezeweeze]

Wow.. that guy has his shit together ...he went thru the trial by fire... and did it the right way...
It drives the message home better when someone that came here legally, speaks out againsed illegal immigration...
Hopefully more and more will contact the Prez.... and ask him WTF...

What he said also in the article Re:.. Katrina cleanup... I had heard or read that recently...some of the victims of Katrina were sent back for jobs and were turned away because illegals had taken that work.....also there was something bout FEMA...renting 3 or 4 busses to take victims of Katrina for job interviews.... and only 1 person rode one bus..all the others were empty.... That could have something to do with post tramatic stress...you know most of those folks have not recovered mentally from that ....
anyway... I think..where our wonderful government needs concentrate ...is exactly what we are being told by the media........HIT THE EMPLOYERS OF THESE ILLEGALS AND HIT THEM HARD AND DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN...

[Mike B.]

The real problem in the U. S. is not Illegal Immigration! The real problem is not companies that hire Illegal Immigrants. The real problem in the U.S. is that the Federal Government is not willing to spend the money that is required to enforce our laws. Nothing is wrong with current immigration laws. What it comes down to is our ability and willingness to enforce them. Sure, with all the publicity the Feds will do some work, but not what is really required.

New immigration laws will be just like the old ones. The Feds. will not enforce them! It's to easy to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to real problems that face our country!

What really upsets me is that so many Latino's say it was so hard to get to the U.S. and they went through so many trials and tribulations to get here.
Well, my family had to get here by wagons and horses, lived the sod homes with no electricity, no in-door plumbing, no central air and heat, no refrigerator, no washer and drier, no grocery stores, no Quik Trip at the corner, no means of Federal assistance, no Wal-Mart. and yet they survived by living off the land with gardens, hunting, digging wells, fighting off Indians and other hostiles. Give me a break!! The illegals here right now have a walk in the park compared to my family.

Mike B.

[lurker]

Originally Posted by Mike B.

The real problem in the U. S. is not Illegal Immigration! The real problem is not companies that hire Illegal Immigrants. The real problem in the U.S. is that the Federal Government is not willing to spend the money that is required to enforce our laws. Nothing is wrong with current immigration laws. What it comes down to is our ability and willingness to enforce them. Sure, with all the publicity the Feds will do some work, but not what is really required.

New immigration laws will be just like the old ones. The Feds. will not enforce them! It's to easy to turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to real problems that face our country!

What really upsets me is that so many Latino's say it was so hard to get to the U.S. and they went through so many trials and tribulations to get here.
Well, my family had to get here by wagons and horses, lived the sod homes with no electricity, no in-door plumbing, no central air and heat, no refrigerator, no washer and drier, no grocery stores, no Quik Trip at the corner, no means of Federal assistance, no Wal-Mart. and yet they survived by living off the land with gardens, hunting, digging wells, fighting off Indians and other hostiles. Give me a break!! The illegals here right now have a walk in the park compared to my family.

Mike B.

Correct-o-mundo Mike B. IF the Border Patrol and INS were empowered to enforce our laws, then we wouldn't be having this conversation... and workers at the packing houses would be earning the (current Consumer Price Index) equivalent of the $4 per hour wage that Hy-Plains Dressed Beef paid in 1964...


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The equivalent wage should be $26.13 per hour.....





I'm suddenly interested ......





in blaming CONgress for not enforcing its very own laws.

[Bubba]

The funding for increased enforcement and building of more detention centers to hold them so we stop the catch and release that is going on now could come from all the money that is sitting in limbo in the Social Security department that Lone Gunman posted about in the thread about immigration and identity theft. Since that money is not being put to use, it would be like letting the illegals fund their own way into detention and deportation from the country.

[Highwayman]

Originally Posted by Bubba

The funding for increased enforcement and building of more detention centers to hold them so we stop the catch and release that is going on now could come from all the money that is sitting in limbo in the Social Security department that Lone Gunman posted about in the thread about immigration and identity theft. Since that money is not being put to use, it would be like letting the illegals fund their own way into detention and deportation from the country.

That would be a good idea Bubba except that the money is not sitting in limbo. The government takes all SS money not paid out in benefits, puts it into the general fund, spends it and replaces it with little paper IOU’s called Treasury Bonds.

[Detector]

I see Democrats may be changing their tune on illegal immigration and the great wall. They probably realize a lot of votes rest on their stance on the issue and since America is now voicing the want for a crackdown and a wall they're going with the flow.

I've never been the type to vote based on the party and honestly I think the whole idea is lame. The republicans better get their act together or I will be voting democrat.