IMMIGRATION: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO NOTHING FOR 20 YEARS!

Immigration Raid Jars a Small Town
Critics Say Employers Should Be Targeted
By Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post Staff Writer, May 18, 2008

POSTVILLE, Iowa — Antonio Escobedo ran to get his wife Monday when
he saw a helicopter circling overhead and immigration agents
approaching the meatpacking plant where they both work. The couple hid
for hours inside the plant before obtaining refuge in the pews and hall
at St. Bridget’s Catholic Church, where hundreds of other Guatemalan
and Mexican families gathered, hoping to avoid arrest.
“I like my job. I like my work. I like it here in Iowa,” said Escobedo,
38, an illegal immigrant from Yescas, Mexico, who has raised his three
children for 11 years in Postville. “Are they mad because I’m working?”
Monday’s raid on the Agriprocessors plant, in which 389 immigrants were
arrested and many held at a cattle exhibit hall, was the Bush
administration’s largest crackdown on illegal workers at a single site.
Half of the school system’s 600 students were absent Tuesday, including
90 percent of Hispanic children, because their parents were arrested or
in hiding.
CRAWFISH NOTE: The individuals broke the law when they
entered the USA ILLEGALLY. Note how the liberal press ignores this fact
and wanders around topic-shifting to spin spin spin. Its been at least
20 years and the law is still the law…despite a failure to stop the
Mexican invasion. Now its the workers, boo hoo, its the families, boo
hoo, its the kids, boo hoo. So they “like it here”…so? If you really
liked it here you would have entered respectfully, that is… legally.
Now its always “somebody’s else” who is at fault, somebody else who
should be jailed, somebody else…how about somebody else paying the tens
of millions for the freebies instead of the U.S. citizen taxpayer?
Wanna hear my solution? Drop compulsory attendance for high schools,
expel the thousands of rowdy students who rob those wanting to learn.
They can do the “jobs Americans won’t do”… and the schools will shape
up in no time when educators are not losing 25-30% of all instructional
time to discipline. So start the busses back to Mexico and get that
fence done, pronto.

Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)

Agreed, John McCain needs to have a true conservative as a running mate.  But after his little Global Warming policy statement this week, I believe he truly doesn't care if he antagonizes us or not. 

I'd like to see him pick Michael Steele.  But he'll do his maverick thing, proudly.  Perhaps disasterously. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive