Hoy Paloy wrote:
> I thought "Trailer Parks" were for us so-called Rednecks? Oh well.
>
> This is actually an interesting article. Apart from the violins
> playing and the unhappiness of people who made their change selling
> stuff to illegal foreign laborers, you have a preview of several
> things here.
>
> - The Mexican lady who abandoned her son while she fled to another
> state. There are the supposed family values we hear about. They are
> little more than litters, dropped by strays when the going gets rough.
>
> - The trailer park owner who loses his illegal gravy train, blaming
> the country, hanging the flag upside down. People are shameless when
> it comes to their own money, and you have to keep that in mind at all
> times. Make the law mean what it says, as you cannot count on people
> to act like good players if you import corruption.
>
> - The company that has had to raise its starting wage $1.00 after the
> raid. Aren't higher wages what we once wanted in this country, wasn't
> that a noble thing that demonstrated our progress as a society? That
> used to be central to the Democrat Party agenda. And they wonder why
> they can't get election victories.
>
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>
> Messy aftermath of immigration raids outrages small Ga. town
> RUSS BYNUM
> Associated Press
>
> STILLMORE, Ga. - Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is
> scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried
> up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer
> and cigarettes just weeks ago.
>
> This Georgia community of about 1,000 people has become little more
> than a ghost town since Sept. 1, when federal agents began rounding up
> illegal immigrants.
>
> The sweep has had the unintended effect of underscoring just how vital
> the illegal immigrants were to the local economy.
>
> More than 120 illegal immigrants have been loaded onto buses bound for
> immigration courts in Atlanta, 189 miles away. Hundreds more fled
> Emanuel County. Residents say many scattered into the woods, camping
> out for days. They worry some are still hiding without food.
>
> At least one child, born a U.S. citizen, was left behind by his
> Mexican parents: 2-year-old Victor Perez-Lopez. The toddler's mother,
> Rosa Lopez, left her son with Julie Rodas when the raids began and
> fled the state. The boy's father was deported to Mexico.
>
> "When his momma brought this baby here and left him, tears rolled down
> her face and mine too," Rodas said. "She said, `Julie, will you please
> take care of my son because I have no money, no way of paying rent?'"
>
> For five years, Rodas has made a living watching the children of
> workers at the Crider Inc. poultry plant, where the vast majority of
> employees were Mexican immigrants. She learned Spanish, and considered
> many immigrants among her closest friends. She threw parties for their
> children's birthdays and baptisms.
>
> The only child in Rodas' care now, besides her own son, is Victor. Her
> customers have disappeared.
>
> Federal agents also swarmed into a trailer park operated by David
> Robinson. Illegal immigrants were handcuffed and taken away. Almost
> none have returned. Robinson bought an American flag and posted it by
> the pond out front - upside down, in protest.
>
> "These people might not have American rights, but they've damn sure
> got human rights," Robinson said. "There ain't no reason to treat them
> like animals."
>
> The raids came during a fall election season in which immigration is a
> top issue.
>
> Last month, the federal government reported that Georgia had the
> fastest-growing illegal immigrant population in the country. The
> number more than doubled from an estimated 220,000 in 2000 to 470,000
> last year. This year, state lawmakers passed some of the nation's
> toughest measures targeting illegal immigrants, and Republican Gov.
> Sonny Perdue last week vowed a statewide crackdown on document fraud.
>
> Other than the Crider plant, there isn't much in Stillmore. Four small
> stores, a coin laundry and a Baptist church share downtown with City
> Hall, the fire department and a post office. "We're poor but proud,"
> Mayor Marilyn Slater said, as if that is the town motto.
>
> The 2000 Census put Stillmore's population at 730, but Slater said
> uncounted immigrants probably made it more than 1,000. Not anymore,
> with so many homes abandoned and the streets practically empty.
>
> "This reminds me of what I read about Nazi Germany, the Gestapo coming
> in and yanking people up," Slater said.
>
> Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Marc Raimondi would not
> discuss details of the raids. "We can't lose sight of the fact that
> these people were here illegally," Raimondi said.
>
> At Sucursal Salina No. 2, a store stocked with Mexican fruit sodas and
> snacks, cashier Alberto Gonzalez said Wednesday that the owner may
> shutter the place. By midday, Gonzalez has had only six customers.
> Normally, he would see 100.
>
> The B&S convenience store, owned by Keith and Regan Slater, the
> mayor's son and grandson, has lost about 80 percent of its business.
>
> "These people come over here to make a better way of life, not to blow
> us up," complained Keith Slater, who keeps a portrait of Ronald Reagan
> on the wall. "I'm a die-hard Republican, but I think we missed the
> boat with this one."
>
> Since the mid-1990s, Stillmore has grown dependent on the paychecks of
> Mexican workers who originally came for seasonal farm labor, picking
> the area's famous Vidalia onions. Many then took year-round jobs at
> the Crider plant, with a workforce of about 900.
>
> Crider President David Purtle said the agents began inspecting the
> company's employment records in May. They found 700 suspected illegal
> immigrants, and supervisors handed out letters over the summer
> ordering them to prove they came to the U.S. legally or be fired. Only
> about 100 kept their jobs.
>
> The arrests started at the plant Sept. 1. Over the Labor Day weekend,
> agents with guns and bulletproof vests converged on workers' homes
> after getting the addresses from Crider's files.
>
> Antonio Lopez, who came here two years ago from Chiapas, Mexico, and
> worked at the Crider plant, said agents kicked in his front door.
> Lopez, 32, and his 15-year-old son were handcuffed and taken by bus to
> Atlanta with 30 others. Because of the boy, Lopez said, both were
> allowed to return. In his back pocket, he carries an order to return
> to Atlanta for a court hearing Feb. 2.
>
> But now, "there's no people here and I don't have any work," he said.
>
> The poultry plant has limped along with half its normal workforce.
> Crider increased its starting wages by $1 an hour to help recruit new
> workers.
>
> Stacie Bell, 23, started work canning chicken at Crider a week ago.
> She said the pay, $7.75 an hour, led her to leave her $5.60-an-hour
> job as a Wal-Mart cashier in nearby Statesboro. Still, Bell said she
> felt bad about the raids.
>
> "If they knew eventually that they were going to have to do that, they
> should have never let them come over here," she said.
>
Employers of illegal aliens should be in front of Citizens Tribunals.
Hanging is too good
those corrupt *******s.

ted

In article . com>,
wrote:

> Employers of illegal aliens should be in front of Citizens Tribunals.
> Hanging is too good
> those corrupt *******s.

Didn't read a single word of that article, did you, you judgemental
assclown?

Thanks for the really stupid posting!

"John Baker" > wrote in message
...
> In article . com>,
> wrote:
>
> > Employers of illegal aliens should be in front of Citizens Tribunals.
> > Hanging is too good
> > those corrupt *******s.
>
> Didn't read a single word of that article, did you, you judgemental
> assclown?