An Open Invitation

We're beginning to find common ground here my friend. This whole debate, and the poison injected into it, is by groups and organizations with an agenda. Be it financial gain or pure old fashion hate, which never goes out of style over the history of the US.

Most, if not all of us, wouldn't know an illegal if they saw one standing on the corner. Although some assume that all brown skinned people are Mexico and here illegally.

You are correct, it is politics. But don't put the corruption in Mexico alone. It is just as prevalent in DC as in DF. It is just hidden better.

As far as illegals voting? I don't know about that. Most illegals want to stay under the radar, work and not cause trouble. Voting is not high on their list of priorities.

And in Texas, you have to show your voters registration card at your precinct. And you cannot get a motor voter registration or a license unless you can show proof of birth (citizenship)

I'm sure groups such as ACORN have attempted to sign or signed illegals to vote, but I seriously doubt, the illegals followed through.

That's just another thing the extremists throw at us, the fear, that we're losing our country, to make us dance to their agenda.

 

You see, I don't agree with the sentiment that there are no such things as jobs American's won't do.

On occasion, I have to haul cowhides down to the border. Stinking, nasty, wet, dripping hides, that are shaken out by Mexican workers, who are drenched in cow juice (jugo de vaca) salted, folded and palletized. Millions of flies hovering around the tables on hot summer days and the smell that would gag a maggot.

The kill line in meat packing and chicken plants. Ever seen one? Nasty work!

Stoop labor in the fields under a hot sun? Not this white boy! Although the Mexicans that pull onions in the fields in south Texas can make a $150 a day and sleep in their beds at night.

Wanna flip burgers? Not me, and apparently not America's teens as an after school job. Stop in the McD's on the Ct turnpike or any other place.

America's lost it work ethic it seems over the generations. Kids come out of school and expect to start at the top, not get their hands dirty.

Others expect companies to support them cradle to grave. Those days are over.

Employees and unions refuse to concede in a recession even though it means loss of jobs, and when the job losses occur, they blame NAFTA, OBAMA or the Mexicans.

We need to learn to take responsibility for our actions and quit placing blame where it doesn't belong.

I'm not talking specifically about those on this board. We seem to have some pretty level headed people ( or on the ball mods), but society as a whole. And people need to learn to think for themselves, and not let others put thoughts into their heads.

I'm a Conservative, strange as that may seem. But I am not conservative as some seem to think conservatism is.

I look at an issue, weigh both sides, research the issue and then decide my position. That is conservatism.

 

You're absolutely correct. Problem is, you can offer them a job but you can't force them to work.

Remember the ICE raids on the packing house in Iowa last year? I forget the name. But it shut the largest kosher packing house in the US down for months and practically destroyed the community.

The packinghouse reached out to communities across the midwest, as far a Amarillo Texas. To homeless shelters, rescue missions, etc. The contracted with labor contractors. They bussed in rum dums from these locations and in less than two weeks, they were all demanding their wages and a bus ticket back home.

The work was too hard. They preferred the streets and the shelters to an honest days work.

Go figure

 

Immigration raid leaves damaging mark on Postville, Iowa.

In the Shadow of the Postville, Iowa Raid

Postvile becoming 'almost a ghost town'
By Orlan Love

They also brought in Somali (Muslim refugees) (Remember Black Hawk Down) and natives of the pacific island of Palau. The Somali's demanded paid "prayer time" and other concessions and the Palau islanders, simply gave up and found better work elsewhere.

I'm still looking for the links to the stories about the homeless being bussed to Postville. It was in relation to the two staffing agencies mentioned above. As I remember, it was in the Amarillo paper a few months after the raids. Or, you can do the search yourself. I'll look further as time permits

UPDATE: Here you are!
Agriprocessors brings homeless from Texas to keep Iowa plant open

Agriprocessors Imports Homeless Workers and Postville Pays a Price