Thread: Immigration Agency Cannot Measure Illegal Workers on Gulf

Immigration Agency Unable to Measure Undocumented Workers in Gulf States
06/05/2009
By Angelle Bergeron

It may seem as though the number of immigrants on the Gulf Coast has grown since Hurricane Katrina created a need for workers, but there is no hard evidence to determine the population of immigrants, documented or undocumented, says Temple Black, spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


Photo: Sam Barnes
Some feel that the construction industry is exploiting Hispanic workers by paying insufficient wages.

Photo: Sam Barnes
Immigration officials say that there is no hard evidence to determine the population of immigrants, documented or undocumented, along the Gulf Coast.


“If we knew where the illegals were, we would go out and detain them,â€

[quote]Anthony Gomez, secretary/treasurer of the Local No. 6 International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craft Workers, which includes Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, says a major problem is that undocumented and immigrant workers will work for less. “There isn’t an American who can beg, borrow or steal a job,â€

If we knew where the illegals were, we would go out and detain them...

You get in a van with a big ol DHS logo on it, pull onto jobsites and if the crew throws down their tools and starts running, then you know you have found some illegal aliens.

What a lame excuse. They act like they can't find them. Pretty sad that they think we are gullible enough to believe this. Come on, housewives across American can find them, why can't DHS?

Here, I'll even make it easier for DHS. Go set up shop in the middle of the disaster area as a temp agency or put out fliers needing helpers and when they show up to go to work check their immigration status. Bring them in the front door, collect their employment info and load them on a bus to the DHS detention center. For the guys that pass the screening, send them off to a jobsite or a legitimate temp agency.

Call it a Hire Bust. Find a building, hook up some computers, set up some folding tables and a place to hide the bus/busses (warehouse). Not logistically complicated. But then again, I'm pretty sure that I'm smarter than Napolitano.

Dixie

Dixie! How devious--I love it! I just wonder if we have any members from the Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi area, because I know after Katrina the common language suddenly changed to Spanish and there was plenty of salsa music instead of jazz.