Jun 242010
…[A] recent influx of Hispanic workers attracted by jobs at local meatpacking plants” has so “angered” voters in Fremont, NB, that they “approved a ban on hiring or renting property to illegal immigrants” this past Monday. “Clint Walraven, who has lived in Fremont all his 51 years, said the jobs should go to legal residents who are unemployed — something he believes the ordinance would help fix.”
Unfortunately, Clint and his fellow Fremonters are scaping the wrong goats. If they truly want to “fix” unemployment, they should go after politicians and bureaucrats, not immigrants.
Government destroys exponentially more jobs than immigrants could ever “steal” – and it does so more subtly, too, fooling its victims into blaming everything and everyone but it. For example, “28-year-old Nicholas Rudin,” an unemployed “line-leader and forklift driver,” thinks he’s figured out why he can’t find work: “He has applied for dozens of jobs only to return later and find immigrants working there instead. A gas station he applied at hired a Jamaican immigrant who had been in the country for two months. At a warehouse where he recently submitted an application, he couldn’t even find somebody who spoke English to give his application to.”
No doubt, the legislators in Mr. Rudin’s locale all speak English – and there’s also little doubt that their zoning laws prohibit businesses from opening in places where they’re likeliest to succeed and, eventually, expand as they hire more help. They’ve probably passed regulations as well that stop folks from building on their own property, so that contractors — and bricklayers, electricians, carpenters and plumbers — go begging for work.
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Jun 242010
Dozens of California lawmakers are pushing to make their state the first in the nation to impose an across-the-board boycott on Arizona over its immigration law — though the state’s largest city just voted to selectively scale back its boycott after local lawmakers realized it could backfire.
The Democratic state lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled a resolution that would impose several restrictions against Arizona. The measure calls for California to issue a travel advisory on visits to its eastern neighbor, halt state investment there and urge Major League Baseball to reconsider letting the state host the 2011 All-Star Game.
Though dozens of cities and organizations have voiced their opposition to Arizona’s law by instituting bans on employee travel, canceling conventions in the state and threatening to pull contracts, California would be the first state to do so.
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Jun 242010
You’ve gotta love Jan Brewer. She’s sticking to her guns, and she has public opinion on her side.
Last week Hillary Clinton appeared on a Spanish speaking television show and said the Obama administration will sue Arizona over its immigration law. Since it aired in Spanish it took a few days for the news to get out. Governor Brewer talked about it last night with Greta Van Susteren.
BREWER: It’s outrageous! It’s just — it’s just bizarre! It’s just bizarre! But I will tell you, Greta, we are not going to back away from this issue. We are going to pursue it. We’re going to be very aggressive. And we’ll meet them in court! We will meet them in court. And we will win. I truly believe that we will win. And the population of America, again, agrees with Arizona.
And I feel that the administration — I do — I believe that the Obama administration and the that party is going to probably feel some ramifications in this next coming election in regards to the behavior on this problem. We’ve talked a little bit about…
You can read the full transcript of the conversation here.
The above quote is at about the 4:00 mark on the video.
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