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2004-01-06 Home Front

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Posted by CrazyFool 2004-01-06 12:22:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It has long been my contention that the USA and the UK need to strictly control illegal migration (and mostly bogus refugee seekers). You should check out what John Howard has done in Australia. He has taken a very hard line which has been very popular. The left wing opposition Labour party is running seriously scared on the subject.
I would go further and say if you want migrant workers then copy the Singapore system and sell permits to employers and strictly police the system. Throw people in jail if they hire or rent to illegals, as well as the illegals themselves as Singapore does. It may sound harsh but it works. Speaking as someone who has been both a migrant worker (they have different classifications :-))and an employer of migrant workers in Singapore I can say the system works. Migrant worker employment permits are also a major source of revenue for the government, as I recall in excess of 10% of total government revenues.

Posted by phil_b 2004-1-6 7:07:56 AM|| 2004-1-6 7:07:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, I could get behind a Cornyn/Flake bill... See if the Milk lobby is on board...

Posted by mojo 2004-1-6 10:41:05 AM|| 2004-1-6 10:41:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, the Cornyn/Flake bill sounds good. Personally, I'm opposing anything coming out of McCain. Since that election "reform" fiasco that directly attacks my 1st Amendment rights I tend to think that there's more than one agenda in anything he supports.

Posted by rabidfox 2004-1-6 11:16:33 AM|| 2004-1-6 11:16:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Throw people in jail if they hire or rent to illegals, as well as the illegals themselves as Singapore does.

I'm all for that. The manager at my apartment complex (since booted) granted tenancy willy-nilly to whomever, and the bulk of the new tenants are Latino immigrants (most likely illegal aliens). The result is an increase in garbage strewn about the property, junk cars that sit in unmarked general parking stalls, increased police presence (due to more calls), and a sharp increase in abandoned shopping carts in and around the complex. It had been cleaned up rather nicely and now everything took one huge step backward.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-6 12:00:57 PM|| 2004-1-6 12:00:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Bomb, dont forget the pee in the elevators. That adds that special 'essence' from their home.....

My brother used to rent an apartment in a complex which rented also like this. Place went downhill face.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-1-6 1:31:37 PM|| 2004-1-6 1:31:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 ....that is downhill FAST. (Geeze.... it isn't even monday...).

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-1-6 1:32:21 PM|| 2004-1-6 1:32:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 The unions are going to crap themselves. They've been against any kind of guest worker program since the demise of the Bracero program. The Democrats will no doubt come out against this one. NOTE: The article I linked to is typical tranzi, far left BS. There are several bracero articles available on the web and they all seem to crib off this one and the same interview with the same disgruntled ex-bracero. Not a lot of original work being done in the ethnic studies world, I guess.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-1-6 3:31:03 PM|| 2004-1-6 3:31:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Phil, right on. Plus, how many more people we need in this country anyhow? I'd put a 5 yr moratorium on all immigration. Let's figure out whose here and who needs to leave. If they want to start a guest worker program w/strict guidelines, criteria and controls I'd be for it, but no more of this blanket amnesty talk - b.s. political pandering. As far as McCain goes, I respect his mil record but his stance on immigration sucks. I've even been upset w/Bush being too lenient on Mexico. Heck, for every illegal they send us, we send them five convicts in exchange.....

Posted by Jarhead 2004-1-6 4:00:47 PM|| 2004-1-6 4:00:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 ..dont forget the pee in the elevators.

Out here, that would be the area where the garbage bin sits. One time, I saw one of those Latino tenants urinating in the parking lot by the tire of his pickup. He then picks up something out of the pickup's cab and then heads on over to the unit where he lives. I mean, couldn't the jerk have waited just a minute longer to do his business in his own bathroom? Brainless idiot.

As far as McCain goes, I respect his mil record but his stance on immigration sucks.

Probably because the guy represents Arizona, a border state. Gotta please all them Latinos whose first allegiance is to race, ya know.....

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-1-6 4:56:07 PM|| 2004-1-6 4:56:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Jeebus, a few more bills like this and they're going to start referring to Bush as the leading Democratic candidate.

Posted by BH 2004-1-6 5:40:43 PM|| 2004-1-6 5:40:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 I fear that GWB doesn't appreciate how many angry Californians there will be with more concessions to illegal immigration. Remember the amnesty program in the past. Did nothing. Things got worse.

Posted by Sgt.DT 2004-1-6 6:54:30 PM|| 2004-1-6 6:54:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 For more information on this subject, read Victor Davis Hanson's book "Mexifornia".

Posted by Les Nessman 2004-1-6 10:02:50 PM|| 2004-1-6 10:02:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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