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re: ICE rounds up New Orleans construction workers today

Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:35 pm to
Posted by Delacroix22
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Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:35 pm to
Posted by footswitch
Meridianville, Alabama
Member since Apr 2015
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Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:36 pm to
Good
Posted by diat150
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2005
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Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:37 pm to
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25 years ago, there used to be a fair amount of black carpenters, concrete guys, etc. Nothing made white left wingers more excited than seeing all of those jobs go away and be taken by illegals from Honduras.


my parents both worked construction and when I was a kid and went on a job site it was like 90% white aybe 10% black and zero latinos. now I cant imagine it being less than 90% latinos and 10% everyone else.
Posted by Breesus
Unplug
Member since Jan 2010
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Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:38 pm to
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who picked it before Mexicans? What are those people doing now?


3 bans. 5 PMs
Posted by reggierayreb
Member since Nov 2012
19684 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:41 pm to
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ICE has not released any information about who were arrested or why they were arrested.



I will venture a guess as to both Who and Why.


Jose Hernandez and it's because he's an illegal alien.


Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
74738 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:44 pm to
hell yeah

Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
74738 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:46 pm to
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It costs a bajillion dollars to deport illegals


and that’s still cheeper than keeping illegal immigrants here by a significant margin.
Posted by chinhoyang
Member since Jun 2011
26023 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:50 pm to
For now, I wish they would focus on criminals and other imported vermin. Those who actually work for a living should be a lesser priority.
Posted by hubreb
Member since Nov 2008
2130 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:53 pm to
H1B
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
28324 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:54 pm to
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Those who actually work for a living should be a lesser priority.


An easier target.

Law enforcement (local, state, federal) stopped going after real criminals a long time ago.
Posted by forkedintheroad
Member since Feb 2025
2258 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:57 pm to
Oh no, people are being punished for breaking the law.

How can society survive?
Posted by N2cars
Member since Feb 2008
39542 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 4:59 pm to
Hit the hotels.


We'll be making our own beds...
Posted by lowspark12
nashville, tn
Member since Aug 2009
22581 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 5:02 pm to
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Do you think that being on a job site doesn’t mean they aren’t receiving any federal or state benefits illegally


It’s far more likely these illegals are paying into social security when reality is they’ll never collect a dime of that money down the road.
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
10550 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 5:03 pm to
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quote:

25 years ago, there used to be a fair amount of black carpenters, concrete guys, etc. Nothing made white left wingers more excited than seeing all of those jobs go away and be taken by illegals from Honduras.
Yes because white left wingers are notoriously known to own construction companies that employ illegals because it is easy to exploit someone when they are invisible....it was the liberals hiring them LOL. You can't make this shite up....


He didn’t say they made the hires. He was talking about their support of illegals coming in and taking those jobs from blacks. You are using a fallacy of relevance.

Regardless liberal and leftist elites are very much into making money (and increasing their power) thru diverse ways including some being a part of real estate development and construction. For businesses not required to use e-verify you also can’t believe that its overly difficult to show up with a valid enough looking DL and social security card to fool an hourly HR clerk. These businesses are not just hiring illegals from the Home Depot parking lot for day jobs.

Liberals and leftists support the flood of the illegals into this country, fight using better means of verifying work eligibility for all hires, fight ICE making arrests, fight deportation, support hiding illegals and giving them benefits, support validating illegals by allowing them to get state IDs and DLs, and support illegals voting.

They don’t have to do the actual hiring (even though they do). They created, support, and protect the illegal labor force to hire from for these jobs while driving out the prior workers and new legal ones.
Posted by Jimmy Bags
Member since Apr 2025
578 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 5:05 pm to
They need to be fined and/or deported for hiring illegals.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
74738 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 5:06 pm to
expect a chatgpt curated 6 paragraph response that says nothing.
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
59122 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 5:10 pm to
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2. who picked it before Mexicans?


I’ve thought about this a lot


Plant the blueberries in an orchard normally like they do in rows then dig a trench down the middle on either side. Put a pvc pipe cut in half down the trench

Take an angular piece of plastic and stick every tree through it like a roof except with trees sticking out all the way down


Take a rope and tie it to the middle of every tree and just hit it with a shaking machine every day


The ripe blueberries will fall off every bush, roll down the roof thing and then you collect them from the pvc pipe

One person could do a blueberry orchard with like 2 hours a day
Posted by Lakeboy7
New Orleans
Member since Jul 2011
28324 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 5:15 pm to
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It’s far more likely these illegals are paying into social security


Sure, and paying taxes
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
10550 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 5:18 pm to
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quote:

Do you think that being on a job site doesn’t mean they aren’t receiving any federal or state benefits illegally
It’s far more likely these illegals are paying into social security when reality is they’ll never collect a dime of that money down the road.


So no tax credits ever received or other welfare regardless of coming directly from govt or thru NGOs using taxpayer money including room and board, job placement, kids benefiting from public schools, school lunch programs, or Medicaid especially all of the ones that were arriving daily the prior 4 years under Biden by land, by sea, and by air?

Money paid to them thru fraudulent IDs and SSN #s isn’t theirs in the first place. It’s proof of additional crimes they committed. It also does mean they aren’t collecting other benefits or using other services illegally.
Posted by Tigerlaff
FIGHTING out of the Carencro Sonic
Member since Jan 2010
22717 posts
Posted on 5/27/25 at 5:20 pm to
Every single poster in this thread, left and right, seems to be ignoring the underlying issue here. America is (supposed to be) more than just an economic zone.

Yes, we realize blueberries will be more expensive. The message that over half the populace is trying to convey is that we have to stop bringing in outsiders to figure out what and who we are first. If it's just an economic zone, we are not a nation and we will deservedly fall. We need to reach some kind of acceptable consensus about that being "American" really means. Then we can start bringing in outsiders again
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