> johnny@. wrote:

>> Thursday, December 28, 2006
>>
>> BEAUFORT, S.C. - A company that knowingly hires illegal immigrants
>> could lose its business license under a county law given final approval

>...

> Thursday, December 28, 2006
>
> BEAUFORT, S.C. - A company that knowingly hires illegal immigrants
> could lose its business license under a county law given final approval
> Wednesday evening.
>
> Beaufort County Council unanimously approved the local law, dubbed the
> "Lawful Employment Ordinance," 9-0, following a public hearing. It is
> set to take effect Jan. 1, 2008.
>
> Under the ordinance, people who apply for a county business license must
> sign a form verifying, under penalty of perjury, they do not knowingly
> employ or plan to hire an illegal immigrant. Licensed companies would be
> subject to county audits of their employees' documentation.
>
> Details of the random audit process are yet to be worked out, but a
> council committee suggested annual audits for 25 percent of the roughly
> 5,000 businesses licensed with the county. That would cost an estimated
> $210,000 and require an additional six employees, said Beaufort County ...

>
> Vigilante justice for the filthy scum who employ illegals might be a
> better, more dramatic, way to get the message across.

> johnny@. wrote:
>

>>Thursday, December 28, 2006
>>
>>BEAUFORT, S.C. - A company that knowingly hires illegal immigrants
>>could lose its business license under a county...

> tedorn44@hotmail.com wrote:
>

>>
>> Vigilante justice for the filthy scum who employ illegals might be a
>> better, more dramatic, way to get the message across.

>
> Immigrant labor built this country. Consider the labor of the Chinese and
> Irish immigrants in building the transcontinental railroads. Immigrant
> labor also built the bridges and tunnels of New York in the late 19th and
> early 20-th centuries. The New York City subway was built with a great
> deal of immigrant labor.
>
> You last fresh salad was picked mostly by immigrant labor. That would be
> lettuce and tomatoes and peppers.
>
> Apperently you object to people working for a living. Why?
>
> Bob Kolker ...

>
>
> Because they're here illegally-- which makes them criminals unlike the above
> mentioned Chinese and Irish who were here LEGALLY.

> The immigrants you refer to were LEGAL immigrants, not illegal aliens.
> They came here to be citizens, to become part of this country.
> It's like comparing apples and tires.

> Valeria Palmer wrote:
>

>> The immigrants you refer to were LEGAL immigrants, not illegal aliens.
>> They came here to be citizens, to become part of this country.
>> It's like comparing apples and tires.

>
> They made themselves part of this country by working to build the country.
>
> There are thousands of jobs that native born caucasian americans will not
> do. How do you propose to have these jobs done?
>
> How many caucasians do you know who will work picking lattuce and beans in
> california under a hot sun for twelve hours a day? And for minimum wages
> and with no medical insurance or other goodies.
>
> Did you enjoy the last salad you ate? If so, be aware the ingredients were
> picked by mostly illegal immigrants. Stop eating salads.
> ...

>Jos. Wheeler wrote:

>>
>>
>> Because they're here illegally-- which makes them criminals unlike the above
>> mentioned Chinese and Irish who were here LEGALLY.

>
>Yes indeed, but being here illegally is in breech of the law is not
>necessrily harmful. If an illegal is working at a job and nor robbing or
>killing anyone why get so excited. And why do you want to lynch people
>who are hiring folks to do useful labor? These people are doing jobs
>that no one else wants to do anyway. How many fair skinned anglos are
>willing to do stoop labor in the lettuce and bean fields of california?