Posted by
Playful Walrus on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:35:27 PM
Alta California’s socialist reconquistador Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez is denouncing the rule of law and law enforcement, because those things interfere with Mexico’s poor living off of the taxes of Californians. Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times staff writer, reports.
Decrying what he called the federal government's "overboard meat-ax approach," California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez joined executives of American Apparel Inc. on Tuesday to condemn escalating raids on businesses to look for undocumented workers.
Ah, the Los Angeles Times' refusal to use the legally correct phrase “illegal aliens”. Sorry, these people are not undocumented. They have documents. Some of them authentic, even.
Isn’t it nice that American Apparel Inc. is willing to go on record as preferring slave-wage labor?
Outside the company's pink factory in downtown Los Angeles, where a large "Legalize LA" sign hung on one building, Nuñez said stepped-up work site investigations by Immigration and Customs Enforcement were hurting the economy.
Funny – I’d say the Assembly’s love of high taxes and overregulation are hurting the economy.
American Apparel has pushed for years for an overhaul of immigration laws and has an ongoing advertising campaign on the issue.
They should no longer be able to call themselves “American”. For subsequent quotes, I will make a correction.
Peter Schey, an attorney for [Illegal Alien] Apparel, said the company's employees, 4,000 of whom work downtown, were all legal to the best of his knowledge, although he said immigration authorities had asked the company to provide documentation on its workers.
Best of his knowledge. Weasel words. Why would he even know their legal status? That isn’t his job.
In March, Los Angeles Mayor [Tony Villar] sent a letter to Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, complaining that raids on "nonexploitative" companies could push businesses out of California and asking that federal immigration enforcement policies be reworked.
Oh, that’s rich, coming from the mayor of a city that does about everything it can to scare businesses away.
Citizens and immigrants are sick of the illegal alien situation. ICE should do more of these raids. As I’ve said before, I think in an ideal situation, employers should be able to hire people regardless of their citizenship. But we’re not in an ideal situation. As long as we collect payroll taxes, as long as we have taxpayer-funded welfare and infrastructure, we need workplace enforcement.