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When doing the right thing hurts….
Posted by Duncan on March 27th, 2007
Via Freedom Folks:
Kirsten Stewart is not the kind of American that President Bush and the Democratic congressional leadership is likely to bring up as they renew their push for so-called comprehensive immigration reform.
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Stewart is a landscape professional trying to do the right thing by refusing to hire illegal immigrants — a decision that’s effectively putting her out of business.
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In a bitter irony, Stewart says many of her prospective clients are dyed-in-the-wool leftists who embrace living-wage ordinances and stronger worker’s rights laws.
“They will invariably ask me why my labor costs are so high,” Stewart says. “I tell them point-blank it is because I only use legal workers, either citizens or legal residents. I’ve had a few prospects just stare at me silently after I have told them that, like I have done something wrong. Others have just said ‘OK, well thanks for the bid.’ ”
She also fired her illegal alien nanny and foreman, both of whom were milking the nanny state on the left coast for all it was worth. But here is an example of a woman who is trying to do the right thing, but with all of the other landscapers and builders continuing to hire illegals (and therefore able to underbid Ms. Stewart) she can’t compete. Sure, building fences and enforcing immigration laws are one thing, but drying up the jobs is another. And not that I am against Mexicans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorians, or Canadians, or whoever from coming here to work. But please, we’ve got to control who comes into and out of this country.
March 27th, 2007 at 11:33 pm
I feel for her plight. But she is doing the right thing and people like Bush, are actually undermining her business ethic. If more businesses were honest it wouldn’t be Bush’s issue…there would not be a NEED for illegal parasites to come to the US for work..work that is handed to them, gladly. American workers are the ones being really screwed over here and many of us are too snobby to believe it. Esp. Bush.
March 28th, 2007 at 9:17 am
You have it all wrong about Bush. Ya see, if his amnesty program would be put into effect, all those people who will work for $1.50 an hour would be legal, and she could hire them without feeling bad. On the other hand, it would further drive down the wages of that sort of labor, an effect which open border advocates inexplicably deny exists.
Nick Kasoff
The Thug Report
March 28th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Part of this is exactly what you say…once the illegals gain LEGAL status they won’t find work…because the businesses will have to pay them better, give them benefits and all that. Hence the never ending open border scheme…it’s a ploy. Nothing more. Sooner than later even the ILLEGALS will see this for what it is.