FUCK THESE IMMIGRANTS!! Send all of them home

Right..The Canadians invading the states,I think you should concentrate on the thousands of Mexicans daily first

they're starting a lil war as we speak...call it a civil war if you want...

dont you see this is a smoke screen by the right to draw off attention all the shit happening in this country. Are you going to pick the fruit or wash the dishes or mow the grass ? If you want to really go after people that are a drain on the
government go after people on welfare that are well and choose not to work.

Australia is getting worse to.

*sigh*

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You can lead a horse to water, but you can't stop him from drowning himself.

i am Mexican and i am here legally but i do have family hear illegally and they do nothing but work for their poor families in Mexico. The fuckers that come here from other countries to steal and all that bullshit give my people a bad name. I have a cousin that came here illegally to go to school and he got nothing but straight A's and is now in college and going to be a doctor. He could not have done it Mexico because in Mexico the government does not give free money to go to school. and who do you think works out in the fields to give you fresh fruits and such for your family to eat? who does most of the fucking landscaping work?? the illegal immigrants that do crime are fuckers and should be sent back BUT most of them are hard workers trying to get a better life so dint say "concentrate on the thousands of Mexicans daily first" because that's wrong and

http://www.icirr.org/oberweis.htm
http://freedomfolks.blogspot.com/200...orkers-vs.html
http://www.google.com/search?num=100...ed&btnG=Search

Agreed 100%

just keep them out of cars, because I need to replace my horn

I guess what gets me is that an illegal can come over to our country, have a kid and then say well I don't have insurance and then bam ... never has to pay it. But I guess we can blame some of that on our ridiculous health care system.

One thing that I think should happen if we let our borders open ... then let me go into Canada and Mexico. Not that I really want to go live in Mexico, but hell, I'd love to go live in Canada and not have to jump through all the hoops and pay all the money to do it.

The Americans seem to be trapped in the US unless we get married to someone in another country or can pay a ton of money to escape, yet we will let everyone else come in.

There has to be an equal trade off somewhere.

I also agree 1000%. Thats what im trying to say...

illegal mexicans suck

Bless you Brother Name and Number

Aren't you a fucking hypocrite.

What part of "my cousin came here Illegally" sounds safe to you.

There is a thin line from my cousin came here illegally to go to school and
My cousin here illegally to blow up some buildings.

No matter why they are here, they are illegal. End of story

No offense but I see the Hondurans and Mexican people here and most of them sell crack,there are good people that come to a country the right way and become a productive citizen and others that take advantage and give immigration a bad name

Stop the racist discrimination!

So.....your cousin is taking one of those jobs Americans don't want - a doctor.

Oh and Lordjunior.

Your cousin is a fucking criminal.

I hope the state medicine board refuses him his license to operate.

There are laws wich is why they are ILLEGAL. They are burning the country from inside (you can be as good as you want, but if you don't pay taxes in the end you fuck other people up).

Everytime one of thoses fuckers ends up in jail he costs the state probably what 5 good productive mexicans produce for the state in a year.

it seems mexico is like a asian country ? no FREE education , always tell that they dont have a project but all the news says they corrupted ?

The Hypocrisy of Jim Oberweis

Meet Jim Oberweis. When he mounted a campaign for Senate last year, Oberweis famously used undocumented immigrants as a scapegoat for various economic problems facing the country. In one campaign advertisement, Oberweis claimed ?10,000 illegal aliens a day? are taking American jobs and demanding free health care ? ?enough to fill Soldier Field every single week.? While Oberweis wildly exaggerated statistics about undocumented immigrants during his Senate campaign, he has also taken advantage of them at his company.

Meet Rosa Ramirez and Jorge Ibarra -- two undocumented workers who live and work in northwest suburban Chicago. Rosa, who is 41, and Jorge, who is 34, were both hired on May 1, 2005 to clean three Oberweis Dairy stores. The stores are located at 9 East Dundee Road, Arlington Heights, 1405 Palatine Road, Hoffman Estates, and 30 South Roselle Road in Schaumburg.

Ramirez and Ibarra ? both of whom were born in Mexico and came here to find work ? tell a story that is all-too-typical for undocumented workers, even though it is a story many would not dare to tell on the record.

?In all of our jobs ? including our job with Oberweis ? employers take advantage of us because they know we don?t have papers,? said Rosa in an interview on Thursday, November 3, hours after the complaint to the state?s Department of Labor was filed. ?Because we are afraid of asserting our rights and asking for decent salaries and benefits, they know they can pay us terrible wages. We hope these abuses cease for all of us immigrant workers,? she says.

Ramirez and Ibarra have brought a complaint to the Illinois Department of Labor against Oberweis Dairies for violating Illinois and federal minimum wage laws and failing to fully pay its employees. The complaint was filed jointly last Thursday by the statewide Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR) and the Day Laborer Collaboration, project of the Chicago Workers? Collaborative.

?Mr. Oberweis has exploited these workers twice,? says Joshua Hoyt, Executive Director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. ?First he exploited them for cheap labor, and then he exploited them by demagoging their illegal status for cheap votes. We have asked that the Illinois Department of Labor conduct a full investigation into Mr. Oberweis? employment practices. No one likes a hypocrite,? Hoyt continued, ?and Mr. Oberweis? hypocrisy just shows how our economy is powered by the labor of undocumented immigrants like Rosa and Jorge. When even an anti-immigration demagogue like Mr. Oberweis uses the undocumented to make his fortune, it drives home the point that we need immigration reform that allows the undocumented to come out of the shadows and earn their citizenship.?

On Friday, Department of Labor spokesperson Anjali Julka said the claim ?is being reviewed and investigated.?

Complaint details two violations

In stark contrast to Oberweis? claim about how undocumented immigrants were ?taking American jobs,? the complaint shows that Oberweis was literally taking money away from Ms. Ramirez and Mr. Ibarra ? money they had clearly earned.

The complaint details two specific violations: 1) The company did not pay these two workers the agreed-upon amount for their work, and 2) The company failed to pay these workers a minimum wage.

?The agreement between the parties was that Ms. Ramirez and Mr. Ibarra would each receive $350.00 on a semi-monthly basis, with payments to be made on the 15th and the final day of each month,? the claim states. Instead, they were paid a single semi-monthly check of $350.00 to compensate both of them. In other words, each received only $175.00 on a semi-monthly basis. Based on how many hours they worked, Ms. Ramirez and Mr. Ibarra were both paid well below the Illinois minimum wage of $6.50 per hour. Each is owed an additional $350.00 per month.

In sum, their hourly rate was approximately $3.23 per hour -- less than half of the hourly minimum wage in Illinois.

Both Ms. Ramirez and Mr. Ibarra worked at Oberweis through the end of May of 2005 and quit their employment ?when it became clear that they would not be paid the wages that had been agreed to and that they were, in fact, being paid less than the minimum wage,? according to the complaint.

Workers jointly employed by Oberweis, contractor

The complaint clearly states that even though ?Ms. Ramirez and Mr. Ibarra were hired by a cleaning subcontractor, they were in fact jointly employed by the contractor and the Oberweis Stores.? According to the complaint, both Ramirez and Ibarra ?used cleaning supplies, materials and equipment provided by the Oberweis stores? and ?were supervised and given instruction by Oberweis store managers.?

The complaint also notes that they ?performed their work at Oberweis? facilities exclusively during the course of their employment? and ?typically worked side-by-side with Oberweis employees for much of their shifts.?

Next steps

ICIRR and The Chicago Workers Collaborative say they hope the case will be assigned to a compliance officer who will meet with Ms. Ramirez and Mr. Ibarra, meet with Oberweis, and request all relevant records.

Tim Bell, Executive Director of the Chicago Workers? Collaborative, also points to a disturbing trend -- labor-related abuses of undocumented workers are increasing. ?The exploitation of any worker hurts all workers,? Bell says. ?If a company is paying workers $3.23 an hour ? that?s what happened in this case ? it is lowering the bar. We need better enforcement of what these companies are doing. This case clearly shows that Oberweis? interest in attacking immigrants stems not from his stated desire to protect the jobs of native-born workers; rather it is to stir up anti-immigrant sentiments and policies to terrorize his own undocumented employees so that they will not complain when mistreated, cheated, and disrespected. What he did not count on was the bravery of Rosa and Jorge to bring to light his true motives.?

Meanwhile, advocates for immigrants say that this complaint is far from an isolated case and serves as another persuasive argument for immigration reform in Illinois and the United States. Hoyt adds that what Illinois really needs is ?comprehensive immigration reform.?

?Our economy needs people like Jorge and Rosa,? he says. ?And Jorge and Rosa need to be able to work legally and get on the path to citizenship ? instead of being exploited by people who refuse to recognize their existence.?

For Rosa Ramirez, the message is urgent. When she started her job at Oberweis Dairies last May, she says she did not know anything about Oberweis? campaign commercials about immigrants, largely because she watches Spanish-language, not English-language television. Now, she?s quite familiar with Oberweis? views ? and how he can treat undocumented immigrants in the workplace.

?We should let the world know how Oberweis exploits us. It?s obvious that Oberweis and other companies need our labor. The government should give us legal status and stop the hypocrisy. We should all be treated as equals.?

Fr. Brendan Curran, of St. Pius V Parish in Chicago, added at the press conference, ?We applaud the courage of Jorge and Rosa for coming forward with their complaint. We and many others will fight to ensure that Jorge and Rosa don?t get punished for coming forward with their story.?

Oberweis? workers with similar stories or who suffer retaliation as a result of Jorge and Rosa?s actions are encouraged to call the Chicago Workers' Collaborative Legal Clinic, 312.543.8245.

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights is a state wide coalition of 130 organizations dedicated to promoting the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society.

http://www.icirr.org/oberweis.htm

don't be mad because my illegal cousin is smarter than your ignorant ass

mexico if fucked up right now but it doesnt mean that the peaple are the same way.

Your cousin is a felon.

He is just as good as the idiots on the streets selling drugs and commiting drivebys.

my cousin is in the process of getting a green card because of is outstanding school record so you can keep hoping all the fuck you want...

Move out of the fucking ghetto.

being a immigrant doesnt make you a felon. its not a felony. and he is far from a drug dealer...

Why would i waste my time worrying over some low-life criminal.

I have more important shit to do.

But let me remind you again, your cousin is a crimnial.

English?

Espanol?

Seems you're the felon:

http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERE...c8USC1324.html

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquer...:@@@D&summ2=m&

Nope. Again you are wrong.

Your cousin is a felon. And since you know where he is located and are probably harboring him you are now a felon.

Dont talk to scum. I dont like to associate with criminals.

damn... i didn't know that just knowing is against the law... i thought you had to be hiding them in your home or something... lol. fuck bush!

If you were in an ER fighting for your life, would you ask your doctor for his legal status on the US? What if that doctor was L0rdJuni0r's cousin?

Show me 12 Million Americans that will do all the shit jobs they do and I and most others opposed to this will say fine.

Until then unless you can show how you plan to round up and process 12 million people, how you plan to protect 19,000 miles of our borders to keep them from coming back, and how you plan to prevent the economy from collapsing overnight, I don't care how many laws get passed, it'll never fucking happen, because it is logistically impossible and anyone with half a brain knows it.

Dude. relax... when he came here he was illegal. he is now in process of fixing papers because of his school. Now the us obviously knows he's here now. get off my dick ..

All you people that keep singing the same tired "but it's ILLEGAL!" refrain are simpletons with almost no real grasp of the problem.

Lol.

Luckly i dont have to make that descision.

I am not an expert on this area, but i am pretty sure they dont give Medical Licenses to Felons.

I totally agree and they are Lazy Americans

Thanks you!

Great. Now they could easily deport him

Show me where 12million shit jobs are being held by illegals. It's very easy to "round them up". I have proper ID, don't you?

Again I ask, if an illegal immigrant takes a legal immigrant's job, whose side are you going to be on then?

Ok, people. Get in touch with reality. Those 12 million illegal residents in your country aren't going anywhere. Whether you like it or not. Suck it up like a man.

They're not supposed to give any kind of work to immigrants without papers. Guess what! They're all working.

yea they can, but i promise they are not and you are going to have to live with it

we had that yrs ago, opened borders for everyone, when laws became tighter africans would just enter holland stay here illegally get things fixed and apply for legal status.

have you seen the posts here bout that? everyone says it sucks. thats why weve changed things around here, no more waiting to get legal, theyll kick your ass if youre in holland illegally now and thats how it should be, if you want in, get with the system first and stop fucking over natives.

And no Im no whatever racist, Ive got shitloads of maroccan turkish whatever friends and biz relatives, but illegal is illegal, there are laws for a reason.

to lordjunior's cousin.

What would you do with 12 million people with illegal status, hard workers, most have children born in the US?

Agree! All mexican kids in the US should get an education.