Thread: City Considers Using Liquor Licenses to Fight Illegal Immigr

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City Considers Using Liquor Licenses to Fight Illegal Immigration

April 17, 2007 07:20 PM

By Chris Duffy and Adam Aaro

Green Bay's city council is set to decide whether the city will exercise its licensing authority to fight illegal immigration.

City Council President Chad Fradette wants every business applying for or transferring its city liquor license to agree not to hire illegal immigrants. Fradette first brought up the idea at last week's Protection and Welfare Committee meeting.

"If Green Bay takes a stance, maybe it will spread, and maybe it will say to the federal government, you really have to work on your issues and you have to enforce the laws you have in place," Fradette said.

Three businesses currently applying to renew their liquor licenses would get them only after promising in writing not to knowingly hire illegal workers.

"If we can discourage them from coming over here to Green Bay because there aren't any jobs, they won't come here and we'll have less problems," Fradette said.

Multicultural activists say they think it's unfair because undocumented workers aren't causing problems in the community.

"Here in Green Bay, I've been reading the paper, I read the news and yet I haven't heard immigrants are creating this problem here in Green Bay," Chico Ramirez said.

Ramirez is director of the Green Bay Multicultural Center. "It's going to alienate people. It's a divisive issue. It's going to make people angry. It's going to make them suspicious, distrustful," he said.

Right now the proposal only affects these three businesses in a pilot project. Fradette hopes this is the beginning of a large-scale, city-wide fight against illegal immigration; he'd like to see the proposal go beyond liquor licenses and cover all city licenses, including those already in place.

"The federal government is not dealing with the issue of illegal immigration -- unless illegal aliens commit a serious crime, then they deal with it, but other than that they don't even look at it," Fradette charged.

Ramirez says although some workers are undocumented, they do a great amount of good for the community like establishing businesses and helping in the workforce.

He said, "We're sending a lot of these negative messages out to all over the United States, and we've shot ourselves in the foot several times."

The city council will vote whether to add this stipulation to the three liquor licenses when it meets Tuesday night. We'll let you know what city alders think about the idea, on Action 2 News at Ten.

City Council Passes Illegal-Immigrant License Rule

April 17, 2007 08:10 PM PDT

By Chris Duffy

Tuesday night, the Green Bay city council voted it will use its licensing power to crack down on illegal immigration.

Effective immediately, three businesses have their liquor licenses renewed with the stipulation that they will not hire illegal aliens, and if they're caught doing so, their license will be surrendered.

The city council debated the issue for almost two hours, but in the end city leaders decided they want to set an example.

When discussion first broke out, some city leaders were worried about how people from other communities would perceive tonight's measure.

"I'm very concerned about what this says about our community," city alder Celestine Jeffrys said.

Jeffrys voiced concern because the city of Green Bay is duplicating laws that are already in place. "That," she said, "is a federal problem."

But other city leaders say the federal law isn't being enforced as well as it should, and it's time for Green Bay to step up.

"What does it say about our community if we try to enforce it? It says that our community is off limits for those who break the laws," alder Guy Zima said.

"And I am tired of people breaking the law and thinking it's no big deal," City Council President Chad Fradette said.

"The people in the city of Green Bay, especially over on the east side, are sick and tired of it. They do see a problem, and it's up to us to handle it," alder Andy Nicholson said.

In the end, it passed unanimously, 12-0.

Now three Green Bay businesses are required to surrender their liquor licenses if they hire an illegal immigrant. And early next month, a city advisory committee will discuss making permanent changes to the existing city ordinance. Those changes would require every business with a Green Bay city license to abide by this new stipulation.

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Ramirez is director of the Green Bay Multicultural Center. "It's going to alienate people. It's a divisive issue. It's going to make people angry. It's going to make them suspicious, distrustful," he said.

Good! Now they know how we feel !!

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"And I am tired of people breaking the law and thinking it's no big deal," City Council President Chad Fradette said.

"The people in the city of Green Bay, especially over on the east side, are sick and tired of it. They do see a problem, and it's up to us to handle it," alder Andy Nicholson said.

These elected officials are sharp!
They know that they were elected to do the work of the American citizen!

Yea!!! Greeen Bay!!

Score another win for our side!!

Ramirez says although some workers are undocumented, they do a great amount of good for the community like establishing businesses and helping in the workforce.

That's what we DON'T WANT THEM TO DO! Establish Spanish businesses for their ethnicity where they employ only Latinos; and "help in the workforce" by driving out other applicants by means of their lower wages and discrimination tactics.

If Green Bay or any other city in this country wants a sure fire way to have its character quickly overcome, just make it easy for illegals to move in, set up shop, bring in drugs and gangs, and flood employers, the schools and hospitals with their social group. This is happening all over America and citizens have to put a stop to this takeover of our society by the sheer numbers of illegal invaders and their hordes of offspring.