Thread: The Battle Against Illegal Immigration (What You Can Do!)

PS:Couldn't Find This Anymore, So Here Goes. Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough:

Ways to Get Your Family and Community Involved Against Illegal Immigration:

I. Your Teenagers and College-Aged Kids: Force them to get part-time jobs during the year and full-time employment during the summer, doing odd jobs from house cleaning, babysitting, dog-walking, and mowing yards, to jobs in stores, restaurants, hotels, and landscaping/construction. Explore the work-study programs of your local high schools. See if you can contact local businesses in your community who will "partner-up" with local high schools and community colleges, to employ local students at local businesses. (gee, I keep using the word "local.")

2. For adults: I know it's extremely difficult in many cases, but when time allows, take on a blue-collar part-time job (bussing tables, prepping food, clerk at a store, part-time housekeeper.) You're earning extra money, you're not forgetting what's it like to be blue-collar if you're white collar, you can be a shining example to student workers who may goof on the job -- you can be an example of what hard work and integrity is about. I like seeing older workers at restaurants and stores, because they don't fool around and the kids can learn from them.

3. For Seniors: Kind of the same as the adults, with more of an emphasis on receptionist/clerical work (as health issues will play a more dramatic role as the years go on.) Part-time, unless you have the desire to do full-time work.

4. Churches: As with the high schools and colleges, see if your church can provide labor to local businesses. See if your local congregation has people, especially young people, who need jobs, and try to partner them up with local businesses in need of labor.

How are we going to create future generations of productive people if our kids today are going home to empty houses, with nothing to do except video games, possible sex with classmates, getting in trouble with bad kids, etc. Get them working.

These are some ideas towards building stronger character in kids, stronger communities, and actually linking schools, churches, and businesses together. In other words, the more businesses are dependent on the local people, the less likely they'll need or want to hire illegals.

I was riding through a poorer section of Alexandria, VA earlier in the week, through a "project," and I saw a number of young males just hanging out. Now, maybe they work and go to school...I don't know... but this was at 4:45pm, and at the full-service car wash across the street, four Latino men were busily washing cars. Are these Latinos illegals...I don't know, but I'd say there's a good chance that at least one or two of them are. My point is, what is wrong with this picture...you have a bunch of young men just sort of hanging out, and several people who don't even live in that neighborhood, who might not even be in the country legally, working across the street. The problem isn't always with the employer, sometimes it's with our own people (of all races, by the way.)

So, while we need to continue to spotlight bad employers (there's alot in Alexandria, trust me) who hire illegals, we need to look at ourselves, too. Are we doing all that we can to encourage our own people to work, and are we encouraging our own businesses to hire Americans? If a business says, "Why should I hire an American over an illegal" we have to give them more of a reason than "Because it's against the law." Employers are also looking for quality. When I buy a car, I'm looking for quality. When I hired people to do my Air Conditioning, I was looking for quality.

We can create productive, high-quality young people if we make it a priority, is what I'm trying to say. I guess what I'm trying to say is that while we are focused on shutting down day labor sites, exposing corrupt businesses, and getting local towns to enact anti-illegal legislation, we also have to be cognizant of our own citizens and legal immigrants, because we're the ones who are going to do the work after the illegals are kicked out, and if we don't have that drive and ambition to do the work, then everything we worked for will have been for nothing. The way I see it, it's the other side of the equation. The side that people don't talk about as much, mainly because we're still trying to win the first side of the battle (as I discussed in the first couple of lines of this paragraph.)

Thanks for listening, and I hope that I've stirred some thinking and creativity on your part.

Ostrich

Osterich: You have some excellant ideas. If we want less crime and trouble with teenagers we should consider urging them to go to work. It is well known that a month before school starts the burglary rate increases in Miami and most likely elsewhere as well. Instaed of stealing, they could go to work and buy things.
There are many people who could be doing some of these jobs.

I think you have some good ideas too. I wrote a response the other day to other one you posted which I won't redo here. But I agree with you on putting our kids back to work and getting back to stronger communities! IMO We have become too nationalized and in the process weakened communities. All of this has played a part in where we find ourselves now.

Excellent Idea!!