Sunday, September 7, 2008
Gainesville Times
editorial page – letters the editor. In response to this from Monday

Illegal workers stealing jobs from our citizens

One can only pray that the recent enforcement action aimed at illegal employment, illegal immigration and the theft of Americans’ identity by illegal aliens will soon be repeated many times here in Georgia.

Local newspapers in Mississippi have been reporting that legal workers in the recently raided Laurel, Miss., transformer plant were cheering and applauding as ICE agents led the 595 black-market workers away.

Media reports from Mississippi tell of long lines of Americans and legal workers lining up to apply for the newly created job openings. Just one quote from a new job applicant in Laurel: “We have wanted these jobs for years, but the company would not hire us.”

Lashonda Dase, a local shopkeeper was quoted in Mississippi’s Clarion-Ledger newspaper on the company officials and the nearly 600 wage thieves being busted: “You’re basically keeping 600 people who are legal to work here from working. That could be 600 households, 600 children who’ve been suffering.”

While illegal-alien handlers howl about “family separation” if their constituents get caught committing crimes, Dase reflects the sentiment of the huge majority of Americans when she speaks up for our own well-being and that of children of lawful residents in America. Ms. Dase made her observation in English.

With each day’s headlines bringing more news of job shortages, layoffs and government budget cutbacks, these innocents in Laurel, Miss., apparently haven’t read the memo from the open borders lobby on quiet, politically correct surrender when illegal foreign workers steal their jobs and lower their wages.

While we should all applaud the arrest of the illegal workers, the real celebration will come when we see the defiant but well-connected campaign donating company officials who illegally hired the illegal workers do the perp-walk into court — in Georgia.

D.A. King
Marietta

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