Posted by
Playful Walrus on Thursday, May 01, 2008 6:11:27 PM
I’m continuing my coverage of the March of the Criminals.
Teresa Watanabe and Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers,
report in a very one-sided article.
The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, joined by labor and political leaders at a news conference this morning, renewed its call for immigration reform that includes more worker visas and a path to legalization for [illegal aliens].
Aawwww, they want more cheap labor that
we subsidize with our taxes. Poor babies. Why not hold a news conference asking for easy document verification, or a more libertarian system? How about pledging not to accept corporate welfare?
Chamber officials will be armed with a new study by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., scheduled for release today, showing that tens of thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue could be lost if continued raids forced businesses to flee the state.
If they need lower-wage workers, then perhaps they
will have to relocate to Mexico.
That is preferable to inviting millions more poor, unskilled, uneducated people from other countries to come here and live off of our foolishly socialistic programs. It isn’t like these people just work and that’s all. They use our medical services, our welfare, our courts and prisons, our water, our electricity, our roads, our schools.
As long as these things are paid for through compulsory taxes, we are not going to accept this anymore.
Enforce the border. If there is truly a labor shortage, we can issue temporary work passes.
"This is a landmark moment," said Samuel Garrison, the chamber's vice president of public policy. "Here you have labor, business, local elected officials, [illegal alien] rights activists and leading educators all coming together to say this has to stop.
Wow socialists and the elites who think they can manipulate a controlled marked to their favor agree. What a shock.
And while you are doing that,
we also have labor, business, local elected officials, immigrants, educators, and many, many voting citizens who say we have to stop the flow of illegal aliens into our country, not do things that will encourage much more of it.
Marchers include some of those injured in last year's MacArthur Park melee, who plan to wear red shirts and walk at the front of the crowd. Doris Ochoa, a 40-year-old janitor and [illegal alien] from Mexico, is one of them. She said she and her two sons, now 5 and 14, were hurt last year while running from police on motorcycles. Ochoa, who has filed a lawsuit against the city, said she still can't understand why police hurt innocent protesters.
Oh come on. Of course she can understand. She lived in Mexico, after all, where that kind of thing is common. And now she will get a windfall of taxpayer money.
Acela Aguilar, 37, who has also sued the city, said she plans to attend the rally at MacArthur Park.
I’m sure this will take her away from some really vital public service.
She worries about her family being split if she is arrested and deported.
If that happens, the solution is very simple:
all of your children join you in your own country.
Victor Narro, co-president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, has been meeting with the plaintiffs all year and said last year's melee left many people injured psychologically as well as physically. He anticipated that dozens of them will return to the park for the rally.
Well then how injured can they be?
Walking out of school to participate in a march or rally will not result in an automatic suspension.
I’m
sure that policy would be equally extended to say, a pro-marriage demonstration, right?
We should not reward lawbreakers.
Why wasn't anyone interviewed who could talk about how they lost their job or took a pay cut because illegal aliens are cheaper? How about someone whose neighborhood has been ruined, or whose school has been ruined? What about someone who has been the victim a crime or bad driving by an illegal alien, who runs back to Mexico to avoid prosecution?
What about interviewing someone who went through the trouble of coming here as a legal immigrant? What about someone who has sat in an overcrowded emergency room?