On Thursday, Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, announced the “We Can Help” campaign designed to protect day laborers, even if they are illegal aliens. Solis said her agency recently added 250 field investigators to enforce labor laws, but will apparently not report those here illegally to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The same day that Solis announced the Obama administration’s effort, mostly on behalf of illegal aliens, Labor Department investigator Paul Ramirez visited a day laborer center in Concord, CA. In Spanish, he told the crowd: “We're the feds, but the good ones. We're here to help workers.”
Ramirez continued: “Documented or not, the law is: If you work certain hours, you are owed certain money.”
Mexican national, Gilberto Villanueva, told Contra Costa Times reporter Matt O‘Brien: “We already knew some of these things, but now we feel more comfortable, more support. It's good that they came.”
Villanueva, has been in the country illegally for eight years.
The Contra Costa Time reported that Ramirez recently made the same presentation outside a Home Depot in Pittsburg, where illegal aliens gather daily looking for work.
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great story. "the ole' give 'em something for nothing" attitudes of our leaders who ain't leading!! Give illegals a fake ss#, a drivers license, welfare and all its freebies, sec 8 "free" housing and allow them to work for cash is so typical of our leaders today!! OH and allow them to vote. Can't forget that one. Thats what our leaders rely on..Vote them " all " out.
why not just create a easy worker permit for mexicans to LEGALLY enter the US. that way they continue to the SS fund, and no more raids. why make hard to legally enter the US? and then not enforce the laws once they are here. oxymoron
This is anarchy. When our own government picks and chooses what laws are suitable for enforcement, we have anarchy.
What steps have Solis and Ramirez taken to protect American workers that show up for day labor and are driven off by illegal aliens? Solis is Labor Secretary. What is she doing about 'accidents' that happen to lone American construction workers on the job with illegal alien crews? Why is President Obama giving preferential treatment to felon illegal alien workers holding 8 million American jobs, while 15 million American workers, some losing cars and homes, are looking for ANY job to feed and shelter their families? Why is Obama ignoring Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution that requires him to act to prevent the invasion and occupation of our country?
That is why we have to remove from office (Congress and the White House) all Democrats. This November let's do that and in 2012 we have to elect another president. We do not like what Obama is doing to this country regarding illegal aliens.
Richard write much??
Run Run Run It is the end of the World. OMG whats next. You guys are too funny.
The law is it's illegal for these foreign nationals to be here illegally. Of course, these ethnocentic agenda-driven political hacks like Hilda Solis will ignore this part of the law, while upholding laws that help illegals. She obviously cares more about illegal aliens than unemployed working class Americans. Disgusting.
I wonder if the illegals really know what they're asking for when they march, wave their flags and "demand" the rights of citizens? If Obama gives these lawbreakers instant citizenship, they will have to start paying taxes and therefore have less money to send to the third worlds they come from. They'll be expected to obey laws - something they're not used to - and wait until they're faced with income tax and all the taxes the White House is busy dreaming up. Welcome to the real world, invaders. Not nearly as much fun as sneaking in and getting it handed to you, is it?
Hey guys just bought a new Flatscreen T.V.
Ahh what a grest country. Any one care for a Toco
Now out of my way thats my job.
NOOOO we do not pay any stinky taxes. Toco anyone
Pedro for President!!!! Haaah Haah
Toco with cheese and Salsa Who likes Mexican foood
Pedro For President 2012 any one seen Phillip Berg?????
He has not returned my donations..
Hilda Solis is a POS pro-invasion non-assimilation advocate. She’s hell bent on changing the U.S. into a third world Latino sh/thole.
Jen says:
"Run Run Run It is the end of the World. OMG whats next. You guys are too funny."
Jen, you are too moronic.
nothing like our government giving the middle finger to all Americans (including those who bothered to emigrate LEGALLY) as well as shaft the millions of people around the world who genuinely deserve US citizenship by seeking it legally. illegls, be careful what you wish for. if the current "leaders" complete their agenda, this place will be far worse than wherever you ran from.
Fortunately when the Governors job comes up for a vote, then the truth will be known? Steve Poizner whose attitude is apparent, that taking away billions of dollars in taxes from Californians, whose wallets and purse are already all but empty, will ascertain the states financial future. Poizner has already stated publicly that he would address it as a ballot measure. If another Amnesty is passed millions more will try to break into America, before President Obama signs the final bill. Then again, more states are passing stricter laws on illegal immigration, so even more of the invasion forces will head for the refuge state of California? The majority of American states are crippled financially from trying to support their illegal immigrant population.
Solis, Grivalja, Sotomayor, Villaraigosa, Molina, the Sanchez sisters, all of them are intelligent people. Unfortunately they are also all fifth columnist traitors against American laws, they work for the benefit of the foreign nation of Mexico, and their RAZA, and are essentially racists. All of them have made enough statements to prove this assertion. In the meantime, everytime AMericans want illegal immigration stopped, these same racists pull out the race card. Finally, Americans, such as the Tea Party people, the Town Hall protestors, and plain regular working stiffs are realizing that illegal immigration is a fifth column scam that is destroying this nation, economically, culturally, and politically. CASE CLOSED.
Jen says, "Richard write much"?
Jen, why don't you go back to reading the comics and let concerned Americans discuss their views on this forum?
No need to wait until November to let politicians and the president know how we feel about our elected representatives and government agencies that outrageously violate the very laws they are supposed to enforce. If this move doesn't make American citizens angry and really concerned about what is to come then I don't know what will.
It has never been easier to contact our leaders to let them know how we feel about what they doing to our country. To make it as painless as possible go to www.numbersusa.com and sign up for easy ways to contact your reps on all the issues regarding immigration policy. If you don't then we will have the amnesty of millions of illegals pushed down our throats. We need to get busy people, this is serious.
Anyone going to protect Americans, or should we protect ourselves. This creature is another brown supremacist.
Jen,
Why don't you willingly pay for illegal aliens, so the rest of us don't have to forcibly pay.
The statement that Hilda Solis wants to protect day laborers even is they are illegal aliens, is another fiction. She wants to protect illegal aliens period. Thus, the "We Can Help" campaign, is just another fifth columnist scheme by a liberal democrat and hispanic racist, who thinks nothing of violating EXISTING UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION LAW. SOLIS, is a TRAITOR, by any other name.
Imagine how many people voted for this open borders administration and will probably do so again come election time. STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES, TRATIORS CAN'T CHANGE THEIR STRIPES.
All of you posters need to chill. Seriously, if you want fair labor laws and companies to hire workers based on skill and not how cheap they're willing to work for, then this is a small step in that direction. Get informed on the issues before you start criticizing people because obviously many of you are just posting on here to propagate a misinformed idea of undocumented people here in this country.
Arturo, your arrogance is showing, BECAUSE,the last thing most of the posters on this forum are, is uninformed. Now the Obama administration would like to keep Americans uninformed on illegal immigration, but then there's this little thing called the internet, that the traitors to this country haven't quite learned to censor yet.
I swear, you'd think some of you never drove over the speed limit, the way you scream about the virginal sanctity of the law. Government breaking into homes and raiding workplaces to forcibly seize brown people for working in the wrong chunk of terra firma? Government good! Government asking you basic questions on a census form? TYRANNY!
Breaking it down for the simple-minded;
If you don't want illegal immigrants, the best way is to make it difficult for them to get hired. That's what people hop the border for, jobs. The best way to make it difficult for people to get work is to make sure employers have to follow the same labor laws regardless of who they hire. This undercuts the incentive to hire illegals in the first place.
I know this involves rubbing brain cells together, but the end result is worth it.
Jack, if you think that violating U.S. Immigration law is just being in the wrong chunck of terra firma, you are allowed to do so, it's a free country. But I'm afraid that the leaders of every other nation in the world, disagree with your attitude. How come you won't give ours the same respect? Also, give me a break, most of the people against illegal imimigration have tried to force politicians to respect the labor laws, but I don't think that really matters to you, a guy who simply thinks of the U.S. as another piece of terra firma. Come on, are you using and abusing illegal aliens like so many other American criminal employers are, and making the taxpayer pay for it??
Arturo says:
"Get informed on the issues before you start criticizing people because obviously many of you are just posting on here to propagate a misinformed idea of undocumented people here in this country."
"Undocumented people" are illegal aliens, and illegal aliens are lawbreakers and criminals. See Arturo, I have a very informed idea of "undocumented people".
Jack says:
"Government breaking into homes and raiding workplaces to forcibly seize brown people for working in the wrong chunk of terra firma?"
Don't blame Americans for the fact that the vast majority of illegal aliens are Latino. Our government arrests illegal aliens regardless of their nationality, ethnicity, or race. Illegal aliens are being arrested for being in the United States in violation of our country's immigration laws.
Every illegal alien who has worked in the United States has committed one or more of the following crimes (several are felonies): ID theft, document fraud, Social Security fraud, "I-9 Form" employment fraud, conspiracy to violate immigration laws, and income tax evasion.
California will soon turn into the slums of Mexico. As long as ILLEGALS get free healthcare, they will come here and contribute to overpopulation. ALL your TAX DOLLARS help provide ILLEGALS free health care services. Obama won't protect our borders because after all, his AUNT is ILLEGALLY living here in the U.S. Why should LEGAL AMericans have to work hard and see their TAX DOLLARS be used to REWARD ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS for crossing the border? ILLEGALS take away your children's jobs. Obama's new healthcare bill Punishes Legal Americans for not buying into his healthcare. Meanwhile, Illegals are not required to buy health insurance but they still get free healthcare anyways. The U.S. will no longer become a superpower when its economy and job market is turning into the slums of Mexico.
Obama won't protect our borders because after all, his AUNT is ILLEGALLY living here in the U.S. Why should LEGAL AMericans have to work hard and see their TAX DOLLARS be used to REWARD ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS for crossing the border? ILLEGALS take away your jobs and your children's jobs.
ILLEGALS are a FINANCIAL DRAIN to every state in America. They come here and bring there problems to spread more swine diseases. Ever noticed those once clean parks are being invaded by ILLEGAL Mexicans who don't know how to clean up after themselves after a pic nic? They just toss empty beer bottles on the ground, littering neighborhoods and turning what used to be a clean park into a mess just like their own country.
Illegals, if you're so proud of your heritage and culture then stay in Mexico. Don't come to the U.S. and expect Americans to speak Spanish or translate for you. Stay in your own country and tell your own government to fix your own problems.
They come for more then just the jobs. They come to stay because OUR LAWS PROTECT ATHEM. And they also get rewarded for breaking our laws. Anything from education to social benefits as food stamps and welfare. They create a network of fraudulent paperwork and ID's and SS# fraud and income tax fraud.
@Maria, I would assume by your comment you do not have a problem with the illegal alien invasion. Well I do, as well as millions of other Americans. We are tired of hearing their "sob stories" ,they break up their own families coming into this country illegally.
Time to get them out of here and enforce our laws and borders.
Time to clean house with our Congress who permit this to happen and the corporations who break the laws by hiring illegals.
After hearing Michelle Obama slip in a speech. Obama may just be an illegal alien or at least a fraud!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBJihJBePcs&feature=player_embedded
Notice the picture of Solis above. All of these traitorous beurocrats have such a sunny disposition, don't they, WHILE THEY VIOLATE EXISTING U.S. IMMIGRATION LAWS, HARM AMERICAN CITIZENS, AND in reality, should be fired and kept from govenrment service forever.
No big surprise -- Obama was born in Mombassa, Kenya! Where's the birth certificate, Barry?!?
This is treason! Aiding and abetting the enemy to invade our nation by the millions! Solis should be forced to resign and prosecuted for her crimes against the American people. WAKE UP AMERICA!
Damn, this post is full of racists!
This "may" not be such a bad program. If employers of illegal immigrants can be HELD accountable & possibly charged for unfair labor practices.. said employers might just go ahead AND FIRE THEM! "Illegal Immigrants reporting employers in record numbers with WE CAN HELP PROGRAM." American Citizens - Post this message EVERYWHERE you see the words illegal immigrant, amnesty, and/or immigration. Get the word out on the street that companies who hire illegal immigrant employees can now be HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
The only reason they won't report them to ICE is because they know if illegals don't do the job US citizens won't do it.So the best thing to do is deport all the illegal aliens and have all the US citizens work at the fields picking vegetables and fruits and we'll see how long they would last. Every unemployed legal citizen should go applied at the fields and stop crying.
I do NOT want my tax dollars aiding these criminals who are here illegally. GET THEM OUT. My tax dollars should be used to 1. get these criminals out of this country, and 2. to create jobs for legal citizens of this country. Obama would rather aid criminal invasion than to protect and aid the citizens of this country. This is an outrage.
Of course, it's the Tea Party that is creating all the problems wanting the law of the land enforced for once during NObama's administration.
Did the Obama administration just overlook that part in the Constitution about defending our borders? Oh, who cares. Texas is leaving the union, we've had enough of this crap.
This illustrates the real problem.
It isn't the illegal aliens, even the dangerous ones. It's the federal government which refuses to do its duty and enforce the law, no matter who is in charge. They created the problem.
They want to call us "teabaggers? Fine with me as long as we make them the teabaggees by sweeping Congress clean in November and replacing them with folks who'll listen to their boss, the people. Let's get it done!
I don't cary if it's the federal government or not, A blatent disreguard of the law is still a criminal act...Our constitution addresses this. They,( the politicians), are to be removed from office IMMEDIATELY and charged with criminal charges----TREASON would be a good one...
Ms Solis, you need arrested for not following the law.
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