As for the Jupiter PD, what exactly do they do and how do they know how to target specifically Guatemalans?
i had a friend in undergrad who had a really shity pickup. he'd get pulled over once a week by the cops and when they'd walk up to the window, they'd say "oh. we thought you were one of the guats."
it's anecdotal, but it happened a lot.
If Canadians were doing it too, I have no doubt that there would be all kinds of disparaging jokes about Canadians....
but the terrorists all came through canada. why are we worried about people just trying to work when there are terrorists out there?
Hey, my niece and nephew are Cuban-Americans. Leave them out of it.
my boyfriends step siblings are cuban-polish. it's not about the "race", it's the politics i'm bothered by.
Because Castro didn't try to bomb us.
no, didn't we get a president killed over something about cuba? i kid.
I'm not sure I understand your objection here. When the USSR fell, so did Cuba by extension. They no longer posed a threat, but we still have an embargo on them. And to add, when the Cold War was running strong we did try to take him out. There were about 4 assassination attempts on the man's life that all failed. Now he doesn't pose a threat. If we went in militarily now we'd denounced.... again.... for the umteenth time.
yes. but the embargos have clearly failed to weaken his hold on cuba, which they were designed to do. they've also made us look no better.
What? No he didn't. I mean, he's about to die. But he's still kickin'.
so they say. i haven't seen him since, what? october?
So you think that Alberto Gonzales is just the "token Mexican guy?" What about Condi? What about Obama? Could it be that they are qualified for their jobs?
i'm saying they agree with the people who hired them. just because a policy is not intended to be racist does not mean it isn't. separate but equal was ruled to be just but was later ruled to be unequal.
Well, we did go in to Haiti in '95 to quell the violence there.
fat lot of good it did.
think a quick fix is to "actually" get tough on it.
but the solution is to be reasonable about it and not to just do whatever sexy thing people think will help. get tough on people who give jobs to illegals. that will help. building a wall, shooting people on the border, will not.
And if they actually went after the businesses that exploit these men and women, we might actually have something to show for it.
exactly. these people just want jobs. the people who are really responsible to our laws who are breaking them are our local rich republicans.
But even still, lets not pretend that Cubans are often more in prestigious places of works whereas the Haitans are not.
here, the hatians work part time in fast food places. the cubans work in brokerage firms, in skilled jobs, in schools, in retail...
And to add insult to injury her son-in-law owns a company named "Ahora Ingles" which teaches spanish speakers English via CD's and cassettes. I think this typifies what I've been saying.
she's someone's abuelita. really.
Who is they?
americans who assume that all brown people who speak spanish are illegal.
Doesn't every employer do that to every applicant? That's one of the first questions I've come across on applications. A social security number is usually all that is needed.
i've never been asked in an interview for proof of employability. the first day of work, i take the form home and get it signed.
They get jobs like everyone else. You have to start at the bottom.
yes, but people who come in with quality educations still end up starting at the bottom.
Me and about 80 million Americans say that.
how exactly does providing more workers and more consumers reduce your rights? just because you're paranoid, doesn't make you right.
There is such a thing called "excess."
excess what? excess people working the blueberry fields in maine? i've worked there, i promise, there's not any excess in migrant farm work. excess in janitors? really? cause everyone in america wants to clean toilets at walmart.
There aren't enough jobs as it is.
not enough jobs in big cities of migrant labor? honestly. show me that the unemployment is not related to shifting industries. so the car companies have moved to mexico from detroit. so that means that there's no chance for other jobs? if there's only one walmart in a small town, sure, there's gonna be fewer jobs because one company provides all the jobs and services. this is the fault of walmart, not the immigrants. if there are so few jobs, what does it matter if the immigrants are legal or not? they're still "stealing our jobs".
So its peaches and cream for someone not even allowed to work here, but law abiding citizens get the short end of the stick.
you are aware that illegal immigrants are underpaid and ill-treated and sometimes forced to work without pay because they have no recourse? are you going to say they deserve to be taken advantage of?
I think the companies that harbor them are.
because they don't want to pay the minimum wage that citizens and legals can fight for. it's pure and simple injustice.
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