“I hear people say we should send those people back to where they came from,” said [Larry] Durrett, president of Jacksonville-based Southern Multifoods and owner of about 30 Taco Bells and KFC restaurants in Fort Worth.

“We can’t. We’d shut down.”

If this criminal was busted as he should be and he does not want to hire legal workers his business would end, and good riddance.

If he thinks no one will step forward to fill in the void of supplying fast food he is a fool. He wants his profits on his terms. I want his conviction, not on my terms, but on the law. That makes one of us jail material

He is facilitating the illegals who have learned one thing: American law is wrong so it is meant to be broken. Break the law and serve a higher law which apparently revoles around this criminal’s profit at the expense of our beloved nation

Meanwhile Rove should stop worrying about his child having to make beds at some cheesy motel. He can continue to consume the American dream for breakfast and the American legal system for lunch and he can feast upon the carcasses of the American middleclass worker for dinner because no one would expect any Rove to dirty their hands at manual labor, not when Rove is willing to break any and all laws to bring in replacement workers while he lets the dying middle class pick up the tab

he’s an idiot.

At net gains in the millions each year, the for show crackdowns haven’t put a dent in the problem.

The difference is that the employers are coming under greater scrutiny now more than ever for breaking the laws on the books, be it ag, meat packing, or Taco Bell. Couple their reluctance to hire illegals, or at least greater effort to hire those here legally, with enforced borders and a slowing economy, and we’ll see a dip in demand anyhow.

Ag worker programs are just another attempt at shamnesty.

I disagree. Believe it or not, there are a LOT of persons from many countries who would just as soon take their money and head home than stay. The US hasn’t cornered the market on homeland pride…

Biffstir on November 28, 2007 at 3:32 PM

Your not from earth are you.
Its a simple supply and demand issue, drive up supply and demand falls taking wages with it.
The scrutiny on employers is a farce, fewer are prosecuted now with more headlines than ever before.
Attempts to match SS#s are held up in the courts.
Employers have basically been given the green light about 95% of the time.

“who would just as soon take their our money and head home”

Its true that many Hispanics are here to take advantage of our system, send money home and have a desire to go back after using our free education, medical and other benefit programs, however that’s just not our responsibility.
Our taxes pay for services that other countries should pick-up and since I was left out of the new illegal migration decision loop, it’s OK to call those out who continue to betray our country.

There are no fewer illegal migrants here than even a minute ago, they’re just not coming for Ag jobs anymore and why should they, with no real enforcement in sight they’ve nearly taken over the blue collar middle class job market.
Meat packing jobs that paid twenty dollars an hour as little as five years ago now pay twelve dollars.

I suggest you do some research. Center for Immigration Studies might be a good place to start. cis.org

PAPERS! PAPERS PLEASE!

No thanks.

Hollowpoint on November 28, 2007 at 2:30 PM

The government nor anyone elese will learn more about you than they already know with a national ID card…other than the fact that you are hear legally. I have no problem with it.

Who knows maybe that way some kid would learn more math and science and would go on to cure cancer or invent warp drive or invent a machine to pick the sacred lettuce plant.

Hey if the great minds of our time can invent a humping robot they can also create a robot that picks lettuce.

Like it or not, he’s right. There aren’t enough unemployed Americans to replace all the employed non-Americans when they leave.

The Apologist on November 28, 2007 at 3:24 PM

They don’t all have to be replaced.

If there are less people in the U.S. there would not need to be as many workers.

Don’t worry, we would get by just fine.

At net gains in the millions each year, the for show crackdowns haven’t put a dent in the problem.

The difference is that the employers are coming under greater scrutiny now more than ever for breaking the laws on the books, be it ag, meat packing, or Taco Bell. Couple their reluctance to hire illegals, or at least greater effort to hire those here legally, with enforced borders and a slowing economy, and we’ll see a dip in demand anyhow.

Ag worker programs are just another attempt at shamnesty.

I disagree. Believe it or not, there are a LOT of persons from many countries who would just as soon take their money and head home than stay. The US hasn’t cornered the market on homeland pride…

Like it or not, he’s right. There aren’t enough unemployed Americans to replace all the employed non-Americans when they leave. It’s the major flaw in the deportation movement and the reason you’ll never win that part of the argument. But I think ultimately you’ll win most of the other parts of your battle.

The Apologist on November 28, 2007 at 3:24 PM

Legal Immigration

Crackdowns result in fewer employees available for the labor intensive jobs (farming specifically) which results in short-term financial pain for the employer.

At what point in time has there been any fewer immigrants here to fill labor needs?
At net gains in the millions each year, the for show crackdowns haven’t put a dent in the problem.
Ag worker programs are just another attempt at shamnesty.

I believe NPR had a bit on this about 4 weeks ago.

1 of every 20 workers in the United States is here illegally.

There’s a few more illegal aliens here than our government wants to admit, more like a total of 30 mil including family members.
Which would be consistent with the 86 amnesty numbers of people that came out of the woodwork, about 3 times the estimated number.
Add the effects of chain migration and legalization could triple that 30 Mil.
No wonder La Raza wants amnesty, its instant rule by dominion.

because of malignant neglect of US immigration law going back decades, but accelerated on Bush’s watch.

True in a cosmic understatement sort of way.

“We can’t. We’d shut down.”

Just a flat out lie. 4.7% of 300 Mil= 14.21 Mil.
And that’s just the unemployed that’s on the government radar there’s a bunch more who aren’t on unemployment insurance and a bunch more who can’t afford to leave welfare because of the depressed wages a third world invasion has caused for now every segment of society except the wealthy elites who have gained wealth.

Like I’ve said before, this is America the beautiful, land of the free and the home of the brave, not America the business opportunity and screw you little people.

He claims Mexicans are keeping the border safe. .

Hening on November 28, 2007 at 2:56 PM

They are.

For the Mexican drug cartels.

lorien1973 on November 28, 2007 at 2:50 PM

Kinda like you are stopped on the road and asked for your Drivers License?

Kinda like you have to show ID (credit card) to spend money?

Kinda like business alreay has records of what you do, and where you go??? (credit card receipts).

Kinda like you have to show ID to get across the border? (unless of course your illegal?).

This knee jerk reaction against a National ID card is really silly… it would not give the government any more data on you than they already HAVE. It would NOT allow them to track you. But it would fix both the illegal alien problem, and Voter Registration Fraud.

I’m all for it… and I’m a Libertarian!

Oh I agree. I think we should be stopped on the road and have to hand over our citizenship papers where-ever we go. I mean, hey, what could go wrong there?

lorien1973 on November 28, 2007 at 2:50 PM

Yeah, every time I see a weigh station on the highway, it’s…umm, closed. We do so well with checkpoints in this country, it’s a miracle that we have any illegals crossing the border at all!

Muchas gracias usted madre mamon.

…because making people prove that they don’t belong here makes much more sense?

James on November 28, 2007 at 2:31 PM

Oh I agree. I think we should be stopped on the road and have to hand over our citizenship papers where-ever we go. I mean, hey, what could go wrong there?

I’m so sick of so-called leaders telling us what we CAN’T do. Those weenies could never have pioneered or built this country – they are weaklings living off the blood of our forefathers. And that includes GW Bush for whining that “we can’t enforce the border…”

Redhead Infidel on November 28, 2007 at 2:36 PM

Don’t you love the irony? On one hand, they want us to have faith in the capabilities of the federal government, but on the other hand, they wan’t to tell us that it’s incapable of enforcing its own laws.

No contradiction there …. (rolls eyes)