Well, this week, ICE, and the County Police raided a business and detained 45 illegal aliens. I say BRAVO to John Leopold. He got something right!
Now, let's see if he has the cajones to follow through and target the other slimey business operators that are preying on the illegal alien community.
Don't get me wrong, I feel horrible for the people that are currently detained. They left crappy conditions and they have an uncertain future. They come here for the land of opportunity and now we are turning them away--for good reason! One of the opportunities we offer is the ability to become a legal resident. Since they declined this opportunity and chose to remain here illegally, they must now pay the price.
Maybe the County ought to set up a special way for people to report businesses that hire and exploit these illegals. Maybe this will be a wake up call!
What's your opinion? Please comment! For some background, here is the original breaking story in The Capital and a follow up piece in The Capital as well.
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Send them all back. It is fucking out of control!
It's about time they started to round up these people. The more that come in to this state the more it goes down hill.
On this day of independence, I find it ironic that a nation founded and made up of immigrants (all of them illegal and lawless) is now asked to kick them all out. The same rhetoric was applied to the Irish (or 'mics'), the Italians ('WOPS'), the Jews, the Germans (Krauts), Polish (Polaks), (Scottish ('Macs'), Chinese and Japanese (chinks), etc, etc.
All these ethnicities were considered detrimental to the US, and thought to be diluting the American 'experience'.
Maybe that sentiment is right- 30% of all americans have scotch blood in their geneaology. Another 25% have German blood in their family tree.
I will start by saying that I know that everybody was "illegal" at one time. My ancestors didn't file any paperwork before invading Saxony, Turkey, Africa, or the land that became the United States of America but that was the way it was done back then. Do you remember as a child believing that all you had to do was plant a flag and the land surrounding belonged to you? That may have been the case back in the day when beauracracy was in it's infant stage and politicians hadn't figured out how to bitch slap the people with documents. Well, the politicians and governments of most countries have gotten pretty damn good at creating laws to protect it's citizens (or at least it's business interests) and damn near every government says the same thing: "Don't come into my country without proper authorization, asshole!" Don't think for a minute that we would be able to illegaly enter ANY country on this earth and set up an existence there let alone get a job and then send the earnings back home. In most cases, the offending American would be executed or imprisoned. No trial, no justice, no protestors screaming discrimination. The people would rally in favor of an execution. They are like that out there and they don't like Americans. I know, I travel outside of the U.S. The "foreigners" love the States and the opportunites we have but don't like us as people. Anyhow, I worked for Annapolis Paint Services many years ago. I quit after a few weeks once I saw how the business was operated. There were only a handful of legal people that spoke English, the workmanship was crap, but customers continued to utilize Annapolis Paint Service because they were cheaper. I started working with a much smaller company immediately following my stint with APS and got to see first hand how much of a strain a contractor goes through while trying to compete with someone who has the "advantage" that APS had. It's not impossible but it does decrease the value of the craftsmans service. And the offending company isn't the only one to blame. The illegals were the first to know they were illegal when they hopped the fence.
So. In closing. Do it the correct legal way the first time. Always! All of the time! Dammit!
I agree our ancestors at one point were illegal. But times have indeed changed. We are living under a threat of terrorism which most of us have conveniently forgot.
On July 4th there were 80 people at the Paca House that did it the right way and became citizens. We welcome them with open and warm arms.
But when we have no control over who is in our country, we are behind the 8 ball. Are they terrorists? Taking advantage of us? Hiding from something? Eluding the authorities in their own homeland?
The point is that these folks are indeed welcome. They just need to do it the right way.
When someone comes into your house, do you have any set rules or expectations for their behavior? OR are they just allowed to come in and drink your beers, trash your carpets and have sex with your wife?
It's not too far removed!
"We are living under a threat of terrorism which most of us have conveniently forgot."
What threat of terrorism are you talking about? Those Saudis (none were Afgan or Iraqi for sure) that destroyed the twin towers and took a small chunk out of the Pentagon? Every last one of those guys came here under student visas. All legal.
The 'threat' of the undocumented being the contemporary boogeyman of a 'terrorist' is a completely fabricated and spurious argument, designed to scare us into submission.
Most of the 'Terrorist threats' on US soil in the last 30 years have been Americans (Timothy McVeigh) or our Allies (see above, and our Saudi friends).
I think our collective fear of the Other is more a reflection of the fear of our fellow brothers and sisters.
And what does sex with your wife have to do with terrorism? Are you saying all new immigrants are rapists and sex offenders? Look a little closer my friend; most sexual assualts are in the family, uncle joey abusing little johnny, it's something like 80-90% of all sex crimes. It's not some random Latino doing your wife.
Mr Leopold had nothing but excepting the credit to do with it!!!!!! Hillsmere Shores community Association tired of the multiple family and worker dwellings and dozens of Annapolis Paint trucks parked or picking people up started the case and the AA county police and ICE finished it!!!!
I am not arguing that the 911 guys were lere legally. We do need to close the loopholes. But if it is easy, convenient, and accepted to come here illegally, the question remains do we have terrorists living here?
People all over the world hate us and many want to inflict terrorist acts on us. Ever see a Bin Laden video? How do we prevent that? Tighten uip the borders.
If your boat is sinking, at some point you need to patch the damned hole. You bail out the water and you patch the hole
"One of the opportunities we offer is the ability to become a legal resident. Since they declined this opportunity and chose to remain here illegally, they must now pay the price."
What "opportunity" are you referring to? To get a US visa, you need to be an immediate family member of a US citizen (and, fall within the quota allowed for your country), get a student visa, or win a visa through the "Diversity Visa Lottery."
The 2008 Lottery program allowed only 1,821 visas to people from South America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
See: http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/types/types_1317.html
and http://www.kkeane.com/quota-faq.shtml
Also note that "Natives of the following countries were not eligible to participate in DV-2008: Brazil, Canada, China (mainland-born, excluding Hong Kong S.A.R. and Taiwan), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and Vietnam."
I am sorry if the opportunity to become a legal resident is not as convenient for you as you would like. Play by the rules or go home!
Exactly the point -- it is not a matter of convenience -- there effectively is no "opportunity" to enter legally.
Why is it that wet backs sneak into our country because their country is a shit hole and the first thing they try to is drag down my country and make it a shit hole? And it's working. All they brought with them was disease, poverty, crime, filth and the ability to reproduce every 18 days just like a crock roach.
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