Three things to say about this:
- Good.
- Finally.
- Lots more, please.
Families are in hiding. Immigrants are lining up lawyers in case of arrest. Business leaders are nervous, and activists are outraged.
It’s part of the dramatic fallout from an immigration raid last week on a Shipley Do-Nuts warehouse complex, the first such raid in Houston since early last year.
“A lot of the undocumented are afraid of going out on the street where you might get picked up,” said Alma Baladez, a legal Mexican immigrant who lives by the northside Shipley complex. “They don’t go out with the same tranquility.”
That peace could be rocked even further as immigration experts and government officials warn that more raids are looming — raids increasingly designed to force employers into complying with laws.
Good. People who are in this country illegally should be afraid of being picked up. It should be a very real fear based on a very likely chance that they will be picked up and deported back to whence they came.
And let the activist scream. And while they’re screaming, make sure to check their immigration status, too. And for all of the ones that are here illegally — deport their asses back home, too.
But it shouldn’t just be the the illegal workers who are afraid. The businesses that employee them need to be even more afraid — unless Shipley’s is hit with a substantial fine then the raid is for not. They’ll just hire another batch of illegal workers in a month or two to replace the ones that were recently rounded up.
If you really want to stop the hiring of illegal workers, start putting the owners of these businesses behind bars. I’m sure they’d be willing to sacrifice a little profit for not going to jail.
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Almost exactly the point Mark Steyn was making this weekend during a brief interview on C-SPAN. This talk about “we can’t deport 15 million people” is nonsense – we don’t have to. We just have to very publicly deport enough to motivate others to leave. And if that also motivates employers to not hire them in the first place, so much the better.
Look no further than the Chamber of Commerce that is greasing the palms of our lousy politicians to see why we have this problem and will continue to have this problem. In Kansas the Chamber and allied business groups managed to convince our politicians to deep six any legislation that affected employer responsibility/penalties. This, despite 80% of the population of Kansas who wants mandatory use of E-verify and employee penalties. And, when Obama is elected, it’s going to be worse.
Grrrrrrrrrr
Ross, I got to see most of the two segments on C-Span with Mark Steyn, before my company arrived. Tough to compete for the remote with a 6 and 5 year old grand-daughter.
His example of what happened in New York immediately after 9-11 was interesting, in that immigration officials went after Pakistani’s who were here illegally, mostly for overstaying their visas, and the effect was for tens of thousands of other muslims who were here illegally to run for the border(of Canada), and the airports. He’s right, snag a few hundred in a particular community, and many/most will bail.
Oh great idea, let’s deport our immigrants so that our children can pick strawberries 18 hours a day!