S.C. community torn apart by immigration raid

Magdalana Domingo Ramirez Lopez, 29, of Guatemala, tearfully talks about her ordeal a day after being arrested by federal agents at The House of Raeford's Columbia Farms chicken plant Wednesday in Greenville, ...

[john]

Thanks ICE! I hope the illegals are deported and the HR department that willingly and knowingly violated the law will be jailed and fined.

[cudzuqueen]

Seriously, do we want these people handling our foodstuffs? They have not had thorough health screenings and who knows what is silently being passed on to us. Why is there no concern over this very issue? It's enough reason to keep them from working these types of jobs. They are carriers of far too many diseases, and don't even know what they have and are transmitting. Wake up America. Send them and their children packing...we don't need them or their bugs.

[cudzuqueen]

Maggie looks like she's been eating well...too well.

[Karen]

All I'm going to add is: They were given plenty of notice by ICE to leave and chose not to take the offer.

[Finster]

Check this out---

Lopez, 29, believed she was safe. But she spent most of Tuesday being fingerprinted and questioned by federal agents and a day later was coming to grips with being sent back to Guatemala. Her sons — ages 4, 5 and 6 — were all born in the U.S.

"The whole time I was there with police, I cried. I kept thinking about my sons. That I wouldn't see them again," she said.

(Oh yes she will, they will be flipped across the border with her in a special extra strength catapult)

"I came to the U.S. for work. I came in peace. My goal was to help my sons grow up in a better place. Now that's gone," she said.

(Interesting.. since she HAD NO SONS when she arrived to find work. It states that all 3 of her Guatsquats were born here in the US - of course on our dime.)

[illegal is illegal]

john wrote:

Thanks ICE! I hope the illegals are deported and the HR department that willingly and knowingly violated the law will be jailed and fined.

That will never happen. Do you see that most of the time, most of them are released because of humanitarian reasons? The humanitarian reasons are that they have children. How about being humanitarian with the responsible taxpayers who don't have children we cannot support? Why do we have to be force to support children we didn't make? Those are irresponsible people who are here milking off the system. They have children, and if they don't make enough to support them they get all kind of benefits. Why are they having so many children? I know why? because the more children they have, the more benefits they get. This is not a humanitarian issue anymore. Not when we know that it is not 1,2,3,5,6,7,8,9,10-100 cases, they are millions who are taking advantage of our good heart. This should stop, those are takers, abusers, law breakers.

[illegal is illegal]

Finster wrote:

Check this out---
Lopez, 29, believed she was safe. But she spent most of Tuesday being fingerprinted and questioned by federal agents and a day later was coming to grips with being sent back to Guatemala. Her sons — ages 4, 5 and 6 — were all born in the U.S.
"The whole time I was there with police, I cried. I kept thinking about my sons. That I wouldn't see them again," she said.
(Oh yes she will, they will be flipped across the border with her in a special extra strength catapult)
"I came to the U.S. for work. I came in peace. My goal was to help my sons grow up in a better place. Now that's gone," she said.
(Interesting.. since she HAD NO SONS when she arrived to find work. It states that all 3 of her Guatsquats were born here in the US - of course on our dime.)

If you read carefully what she said, notice that all of them play the innocent, victim card. They are poor, good workers, and they come here "ONLY" with the intention to work. This poor innocent woman had not 1 but 3 kids? The government should not allowed such abuse against us taxpayers. Those poor innocent people know more than you, me, everyone else, and the government. They know our weak nerve and they are using it.

[cudzuqueen]

Finster wrote:

Check this out---
Lopez, 29, believed she was safe. But she spent most of Tuesday being fingerprinted and questioned by federal agents and a day later was coming to grips with being sent back to Guatemala. Her sons — ages 4, 5 and 6 — were all born in the U.S.
"The whole time I was there with police, I cried. I kept thinking about my sons. That I wouldn't see them again," she said.
(Oh yes she will, they will be flipped across the border with her in a special extra strength catapult)
"I came to the U.S. for work. I came in peace. My goal was to help my sons grow up in a better place. Now that's gone," she said.
(Interesting.. since she HAD NO SONS when she arrived to find work. It states that all 3 of her Guatsquats were born here in the US - of course on our dime.)

I'm so glad you caught the part about the sons spiel...who is she kidding? They were her jackpot babies and her impetus for coming here. You can rest assured that she was dipping into our entitlement system. She's just another avaricious invader who finally got caught. Too bad she wasn't nailed before she became pregnant....three times. Where's poppy?

[Toadal]

American Universal Healthcare At Risk

Economist Milton Friedman famously said, "You can't have free immigration and a welfare state." He was correct. You can't flood our American cities with illegal marginal workers -- and, for example, provide good healthcare for everyone. Studies have shown lower class US citizens receive more from government than they contribute. In our free-market system, it is the large, literate and productive American middle class who contribute more than they receive. And it is their productivity that raises the living standards of our lower class. The vast majority of illegals compete directly with our most vulnerable white, Hispanic, and African American citizens, suppressing their wages and increasing their hardship. A country's quality of life varies directly with the contribution of its population.

Peoples Ability Varies

In Mexico only 13% of adults have a high school diploma versus 87% of American adults. The Program in International Student Achievement (PISA) reading and mathematics test scores for Mexicans taught reading and mathematics in Spanish are just as bad, if not worse, than those who have fled here. PISA officials estimate over 50% of Mexican 15-year old youth today are functionally illiterate and thus unable to compete in Mexico's economy.

http://www.worldfund.org/index.php... _and_ http://www.worldfund.org

Latin American students perform poorly on national and international tests, and even the best Latin American students tested often score only as well as the “average” student in the most competitive economies. In fact, PISA tests have shown 2/3s of Mexican students could not consistently apply basic mathematical skills to understand an everyday situation. This has obvious ramifications for federal plans for universal healthcare. The US obviously cannot afford to provide quality healthcare to Americans while granting amnesty to illegals, unless you define healthcare as only an aspirin and a warm Coca Cola.

Only about 20 percent of students in OECD countries showed similar deficiencies.

http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm...
Building Human Capital - Is Latin American Education Competitive-.pdf

Canada has a large immigration program and guaranteed health care for everyone, including foreigners who are legal residents. Canada does not tolerate illegal immigration. It can't afford to extend its expensive benefits to people who don't belong there.

[Poor Richard]

South Carolina has only 3 months of funding left for unemployment benefits. So, according to hispanic leaders they should allow MORE illegal aliens to invade the state and displace the legal citizenworkers or at the least lower the wages of the remaining workers. Is this insanity or what?
To consider anything less than immediate deportation of ALL illegal workers should be considered treason!

[Poor Richard]

illegal is illegal wrote:

<quoted text>
If you read carefully what she said, notice that all of them play the innocent, victim card. They are poor, good workers, and they come here "ONLY" with the intention to work. This poor innocent woman had not 1 but 3 kids? The government should not allowed such abuse against us taxpayers. Those poor innocent people know more than you, me, everyone else, and the government. They know our weak nerve and they are using it.

They are well coached by their home country and those here that desire the destruction of the USA.

[cudzuqueen]

The community is not torn, the illegals are, because the jig is up. Look what the GAO posted in 1997...
The Extent of Welfare Benefits for Citizen Children

Program Benefit National average
monthly benefit amount
AFDC Cash assistance to needy families with
dependent children who meet state eligibility criteria

$290 for households
with one recipient child
Food Stamp Food assistance for needy individuals who
meet federal eligibility criteria
$71 per person...

SSI Cash assistance to needy blind, disabled,
or aged individuals who meet federal
eligibility criteria
$453 per disabled child

HUD rental housing assistance
Public housing, tenant-based certificates
or vouchers, or project-based rental
subsidies for private-market housing
$385 per household

AFDC and Food Stamp data were obtained from the National Integrated Quality Control System
for fiscal year 1995.

They are torn up because they won't be able to scam the taxpayers any more.

Add this sum, which is probably more now, to their meager pay...now, do you see why they slither across the border?

[plopsdad]

She came with none and now she has 3, she wasnt just working chickens.

[Harold]

plopsdad wrote:

She came with none and now she has 3, she wasnt just working chickens.

Definitely a one bagger, if not two! She must have worked the 3-11 shift then hit the local bars!

[John In North Carolina]

"We need to pray for them," Wynn said.

OK, Here Goes:

Dear Lord:

I thank you for ICE, The Fence, Sheriff Joe and all proactive law enforcement officers. I pray that you will help them round up as many of the "ILLEGAL ALIENS" as possible and deport them from this country. I pray that the employers will be brought up on charges and jailed, with their personal assets seized.

AMEN.

[cudzuqueen]

John In North Carolina wrote:

"We need to pray for them," Wynn said.
OK, Here Goes:
Dear Lord:
I thank you for ICE, The Fence, Sheriff Joe and all proactive law enforcement officers. I pray that you will help them round up as many of the "ILLEGAL ALIENS" as possible and deport them from this country. I pray that the employers will be brought up on charges and jailed, with their personal assets seized.
AMEN.

Amen, brother, Amen!!!