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	<title>Comments on: As Pope Calls For Treating Immigrants With &#8216;Dignity,&#8217; Bush Administration Carries Out Raids In Five States</title>
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		<title>By: batteries</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-5284534</link>
		<dc:creator>batteries</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It’s interesting that by opposing enforcement, TP ends up on the same side as crooked businesses, the MexicanGovernment, crooked banks, and corrupt politicians (including, of course, George Bush). It also indicates that their support for “reform” is deceptive: does anyone think they’d support “reform”-mandated enforcement?

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s interesting that by opposing enforcement, TP ends up on the same side as crooked businesses, the MexicanGovernment, crooked banks, and corrupt politicians (including, of course, George Bush). It also indicates that their support for “reform” is deceptive: does anyone think they’d support “reform”-mandated enforcement?</p>
<p>It also should be pointed out that TP is in effect supporting identify theft and illegal activity <a href="http://www.batteryfast.com/acer/travelmate-280.htm" rel="nofollow">acer travelmate 280 battery</a>,<a href="http://www.batteryfast.com/acer/squ-207.htm" rel="nofollow">acer squ-207 battery</a> in general, in addition to trying to confuse their readers by referring to illegal aliens as “immigrants”.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5284534', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Abattoirflux</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-5008004</link>
		<dc:creator>Abattoirflux</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m still trying to figure out why we don&#039;t just immediately execute illegal immigrants. Think of the benefits!

The cells we&#039;re using for their children could be used to house the administration&#039;s political enemies.
The cost of their board could be cut out of the picture.
They might not be as enthusiastic to come here in the first place.
We could put it on prime-time television and sell advertising space!

It would be perfect!

&quot;If we treat illegal immigrants so badly, why are they still coming here and not trying to sneak over the border into Iran?&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m still trying to figure out why we don&#8217;t just immediately execute illegal immigrants. Think of the benefits!</p>
<p>The cells we&#8217;re using for their children could be used to house the administration&#8217;s political enemies.<br />
The cost of their board could be cut out of the picture.<br />
They might not be as enthusiastic to come here in the first place.<br />
We could put it on prime-time television and sell advertising space!</p>
<p>It would be perfect!</p>
<p>&#8220;If we treat illegal immigrants so badly, why are they still coming here and not trying to sneak over the border into Iran?&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5008004', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: AllenAllen</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-5002236</link>
		<dc:creator>AllenAllen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Oh no! &lt;/strong&gt;Companies without cheap labor?  I might have to pay more for tomatoes and &lt;strong&gt;legal agricultural WORKERS &lt;/strong&gt;(mostly of Mexican origin&lt;strong&gt;) &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;might get a decent wage.&lt;/strong&gt; Oh woe! Without slave labor, my privileged way of life is threatened.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Oh no! </strong>Companies without cheap labor?  I might have to pay more for tomatoes and <strong>legal agricultural WORKERS </strong>(mostly of Mexican origin<strong>) </strong><strong>might get a decent wage.</strong> Oh woe! Without slave labor, my privileged way of life is threatened.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5002236', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Pedro el Sabio</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4992564</link>
		<dc:creator>Pedro el Sabio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I guess you could say legal immigration is a good idea (I am considered a legal immigrant, and I pay a lot more in taxes than the average american native pays in a year, therefore I REALLY help the US economy). 

However, illegal immigration should be avoided...and it would help the USA to keep the number and type of immigrants under control, rather than allowing in a bunch of peasants without even screening them to see if they have tuberculosis or AIDs. It is better if the type of immigrant the US lets in is smart, has some money (or a good way to earn it) and speaks English.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess you could say legal immigration is a good idea (I am considered a legal immigrant, and I pay a lot more in taxes than the average american native pays in a year, therefore I REALLY help the US economy). </p>
<p>However, illegal immigration should be avoided&#8230;and it would help the USA to keep the number and type of immigrants under control, rather than allowing in a bunch of peasants without even screening them to see if they have tuberculosis or AIDs. It is better if the type of immigrant the US lets in is smart, has some money (or a good way to earn it) and speaks English.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4992564', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: gwats</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4977880</link>
		<dc:creator>gwats</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 21:18:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Legal immigration can be of a great benefit to a Country needing skilled labor. My wife came here 16 years ago and always held a decent job, paid her taxes and kept her nose out of trouble. She became a US citizen five years ago. But giving a wink and nod to the illegal immigrants spilling in from Latin America when we can&#039;t even care for our veterans, our poor and our sick is just plain wrong and now it&#039;s starting to bite us in the butt. Amnesty for the 20 million already here when we are facing a severe recession is insanity and a very low priority issue.
 Like the mortgage crisis, our Government&#039;s response has been weak, foot dragging, delay after delay. Those who need our Government&#039;s help better bring a lawn chair and a cold drink while waiting in THAT line because it&#039;s going to be a very long wait.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Legal immigration can be of a great benefit to a Country needing skilled labor. My wife came here 16 years ago and always held a decent job, paid her taxes and kept her nose out of trouble. She became a US citizen five years ago. But giving a wink and nod to the illegal immigrants spilling in from Latin America when we can&#8217;t even care for our veterans, our poor and our sick is just plain wrong and now it&#8217;s starting to bite us in the butt. Amnesty for the 20 million already here when we are facing a severe recession is insanity and a very low priority issue.<br />
 Like the mortgage crisis, our Government&#8217;s response has been weak, foot dragging, delay after delay. Those who need our Government&#8217;s help better bring a lawn chair and a cold drink while waiting in THAT line because it&#8217;s going to be a very long wait.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4977880', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Donkeykick</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4977816</link>
		<dc:creator>Donkeykick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 19:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The only reason Bush did this is to get votes for the GOP this Fall.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The only reason Bush did this is to get votes for the GOP this Fall.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4977816', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: pattipace</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4968972</link>
		<dc:creator>pattipace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 22:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just to show you that most Republicans are nice people, I want to share my little letter to the editor with you’se:

Reader does not support amnesty for illegal immigrants
I watched Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., hard at work recently on C-Span, showing on his charts how seven million U.S. citizens are presently unemployed. He also showed how presently there are only four million jobs available in the United States.
How can Democrats push for the amnesty of 20 million illegal immigrants, while providing us with the best evidence against it?
Illegal immigrants are the biggest contributors to unemployment in the United States, and they are forcing many U.S. citizens into early retirement. Two illegal immigrants are working for the price of one American and with no employee benefits. They help the employer in the present and future.
My school taxes have doubled because of the illegal immigrants’ many, many children in our public schools.
While our troops are bravely fighting for freedom in the Middle East, at home it appears freedom is free for illegal immigrants as they invade our nation.
The Democrats advocating for amnesty are saying that citizenship for illegal immigrants will cost them each a $5,000 fee. In reality, what these politicians are saying is that the lives of the brave heroes we lost in this war on terror are each only worth $5,000.
In Pennsylvania we have veterans living underneath bridges and employed illegal immigrants living in the rental properties.
How can our government propose to give amnesty to 20 million low-wage-earning illegal immigrants, all of whom will then be eligible for free government welfare programs, when it cannot help just a few hundred thousand veterans, many of whom just need proper medical care or are truly homeless or unemployed?
Pat Smith Duryea

http://www.timesleader.com/opinion/letters/20080518_Smith_letter_ART.html  

p.s. After 50 years I am still a Roman Catholic, but one of many who will no longer pay church dues to help support these illegals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just to show you that most Republicans are nice people, I want to share my little letter to the editor with you’se:</p>
<p>Reader does not support amnesty for illegal immigrants<br />
I watched Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., hard at work recently on C-Span, showing on his charts how seven million U.S. citizens are presently unemployed. He also showed how presently there are only four million jobs available in the United States.<br />
How can Democrats push for the amnesty of 20 million illegal immigrants, while providing us with the best evidence against it?<br />
Illegal immigrants are the biggest contributors to unemployment in the United States, and they are forcing many U.S. citizens into early retirement. Two illegal immigrants are working for the price of one American and with no employee benefits. They help the employer in the present and future.<br />
My school taxes have doubled because of the illegal immigrants’ many, many children in our public schools.<br />
While our troops are bravely fighting for freedom in the Middle East, at home it appears freedom is free for illegal immigrants as they invade our nation.<br />
The Democrats advocating for amnesty are saying that citizenship for illegal immigrants will cost them each a $5,000 fee. In reality, what these politicians are saying is that the lives of the brave heroes we lost in this war on terror are each only worth $5,000.<br />
In Pennsylvania we have veterans living underneath bridges and employed illegal immigrants living in the rental properties.<br />
How can our government propose to give amnesty to 20 million low-wage-earning illegal immigrants, all of whom will then be eligible for free government welfare programs, when it cannot help just a few hundred thousand veterans, many of whom just need proper medical care or are truly homeless or unemployed?<br />
Pat Smith Duryea</p>
<p><a href="http://www.timesleader.com/opinion/letters/20080518_Smith_letter_ART.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesleader.com/opinion/letters/20080518_Smith_letter_ART.html</a>  </p>
<p>p.s. After 50 years I am still a Roman Catholic, but one of many who will no longer pay church dues to help support these illegals.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4968972', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: doughpro</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4918794</link>
		<dc:creator>doughpro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Carly Corday is speaking the ugly, harsh truth. It is too bad that the spaghetti-spines can&#039;t bear to hear it because it puts a damper on their xanax-enhanced euphoria. They will accuse her of being a lying, racist, hate-monger, instead.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Carly Corday is speaking the ugly, harsh truth. It is too bad that the spaghetti-spines can&#8217;t bear to hear it because it puts a damper on their xanax-enhanced euphoria. They will accuse her of being a lying, racist, hate-monger, instead.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4918794', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Beethoven Rules</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4917212</link>
		<dc:creator>Beethoven Rules</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There are aproximately six billion people on the planet.  At least three billion live in proverty and in third world countries.  I don&#039;t understand why we can&#039;t seek them out and bring and bring all of them to the U. S. so they can take advantage of our schools, hospitals and welfare programs.  I think it is racist of us to limit our compassion only to our friends South of the border.  Surely, we can handle three billiom more desperate people.
Think positive, wages would really drop, plenty of work for all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are aproximately six billion people on the planet.  At least three billion live in proverty and in third world countries.  I don&#8217;t understand why we can&#8217;t seek them out and bring and bring all of them to the U. S. so they can take advantage of our schools, hospitals and welfare programs.  I think it is racist of us to limit our compassion only to our friends South of the border.  Surely, we can handle three billiom more desperate people.<br />
Think positive, wages would really drop, plenty of work for all.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4917212', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Evil Spaniard</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4916300</link>
		<dc:creator>Evil Spaniard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;I have a friend who has been a welder for over 25 years and
was a contractor for a local developer in Phoenix. The devolper had another contractor who had “illeagals” working for them on part of the same project. About a month into the project the developer told my friend that they were going to let him go because his work was “too good” and when the inspectors saw his work first they would reject the others work.&lt;/em&gt; 

So, the developer who hired your friend hired too a contractor who hires illegals, and later, the developer gave the layoff to him, but somehow the guilt is only from the illegals? The developer had nothing ado? The inspectors? The contractor? Revise your statement, it exhudes racism. But, of course, unionizing and fighting for your friend&#039;s rights, and make the employers abide by the law is too left wing, isn&#039;t?

Too many USA greedheads want the illegal immigrants flowing in to profit from them, and from the legal workers. They want them illegal, because illegality makes them cheap. Dont&#039; blame only the poor people coming in.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>I have a friend who has been a welder for over 25 years and<br />
was a contractor for a local developer in Phoenix. The devolper had another contractor who had “illeagals” working for them on part of the same project. About a month into the project the developer told my friend that they were going to let him go because his work was “too good” and when the inspectors saw his work first they would reject the others work.</em> </p>
<p>So, the developer who hired your friend hired too a contractor who hires illegals, and later, the developer gave the layoff to him, but somehow the guilt is only from the illegals? The developer had nothing ado? The inspectors? The contractor? Revise your statement, it exhudes racism. But, of course, unionizing and fighting for your friend&#8217;s rights, and make the employers abide by the law is too left wing, isn&#8217;t?</p>
<p>Too many USA greedheads want the illegal immigrants flowing in to profit from them, and from the legal workers. They want them illegal, because illegality makes them cheap. Dont&#8217; blame only the poor people coming in.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916300', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Evil Spaniard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Evil Spaniard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Caption Contest: &quot;The guy raised in the Nazi Youth besides The Pope&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Caption Contest: &#8220;The guy raised in the Nazi Youth besides The Pope&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916294', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Doc Rock</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doc Rock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s an election year!  Gotta keep the &lt;em&gt;xenophobic&lt;/em&gt; base happy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s an election year!  Gotta keep the <em>xenophobic</em> base happy.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916290', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: lurker</title>
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		<dc:creator>lurker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Of course the pope wants the &quot;illegals&quot; to stay, first because
they are mostly catholic and secondly the more money they earn
the more they can give to the church.

When Bush was trying to get some sort of immigration reform
and he said that they only &quot;do jobs that Americans don&#039;t want
to do&quot; (he always leaves out &quot;for peanuts&quot;) I wondered how he
could be siding with the liberal democrats. Well of course
he wants cheap labor for his corporate buddies. The fact is
&quot;illegals&quot; drive down pay for legal immigrants and Americans.
Cesar Chavez was against illegal immigration for this reason.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez

I have a friend who has been a welder for over 25 years and
was a contractor for a local developer in Phoenix. The devolper had another contractor who had &quot;illeagals&quot; working for them on part of the same project. About a month into the project the developer told my friend that they were going to let him go because his work was &quot;too good&quot; and when the inspectors saw his work first they would reject the others work.  

The pro &quot;illegal&quot; people always call the illegals
&quot;undocumented&quot; as if that somehow that makes it OK. They will say &quot;they pay taxes that they will never see.&quot; Which suggests
that they have provided bogus documation to their employer and are breaking more laws. (ID theift or anchor babies SSN)

I agree with Carly Corday that the &quot;illegals&quot; are being abused
by various contractors who charge full price for services
and pay the illegals almost nothing. And no I am not anti-
immigrant I am anti-&quot;illegal immigrant&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Of course the pope wants the &#8220;illegals&#8221; to stay, first because<br />
they are mostly catholic and secondly the more money they earn<br />
the more they can give to the church.</p>
<p>When Bush was trying to get some sort of immigration reform<br />
and he said that they only &#8220;do jobs that Americans don&#8217;t want<br />
to do&#8221; (he always leaves out &#8220;for peanuts&#8221;) I wondered how he<br />
could be siding with the liberal democrats. Well of course<br />
he wants cheap labor for his corporate buddies. The fact is<br />
&#8220;illegals&#8221; drive down pay for legal immigrants and Americans.<br />
Cesar Chavez was against illegal immigration for this reason.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez</a></p>
<p>I have a friend who has been a welder for over 25 years and<br />
was a contractor for a local developer in Phoenix. The devolper had another contractor who had &#8220;illeagals&#8221; working for them on part of the same project. About a month into the project the developer told my friend that they were going to let him go because his work was &#8220;too good&#8221; and when the inspectors saw his work first they would reject the others work.  </p>
<p>The pro &#8220;illegal&#8221; people always call the illegals<br />
&#8220;undocumented&#8221; as if that somehow that makes it OK. They will say &#8220;they pay taxes that they will never see.&#8221; Which suggests<br />
that they have provided bogus documation to their employer and are breaking more laws. (ID theift or anchor babies SSN)</p>
<p>I agree with Carly Corday that the &#8220;illegals&#8221; are being abused<br />
by various contractors who charge full price for services<br />
and pay the illegals almost nothing. And no I am not anti-<br />
immigrant I am anti-&#8221;illegal immigrant&#8221;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916282', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Carly Corday</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4916256</link>
		<dc:creator>Carly Corday</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wish you could see the abuse of illegals in a certain part of Texas that I have seen. Much of it is done by American citizens of Mexican ancestry. They get you cheap labor, you pay them a little something, wink-wink. The people receiving this labor are working in the education system, even, and one of them is a homosexual who hits on young males (of all ethnicities including WASP) who come to the college to take the GED exams. The one who gets the cheap labor for you is a Mexican-American restaurateur who forces his illegal busboys to work at his house after their shift, for zero dollars. African-American entrepreneurs bring in van-loads of young illegal Latina women to clean big beach houses for next to no pay, while the &quot;boss&quot; charges full American maid service prices, which he pockets, tax free. A PIGSTY! It isn&#039;t &quot;helping&quot; illegals to call them immigrants and to cloud this horrible issue the way some on the left keep doing. It&#039;s a crime all over again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish you could see the abuse of illegals in a certain part of Texas that I have seen. Much of it is done by American citizens of Mexican ancestry. They get you cheap labor, you pay them a little something, wink-wink. The people receiving this labor are working in the education system, even, and one of them is a homosexual who hits on young males (of all ethnicities including WASP) who come to the college to take the GED exams. The one who gets the cheap labor for you is a Mexican-American restaurateur who forces his illegal busboys to work at his house after their shift, for zero dollars. African-American entrepreneurs bring in van-loads of young illegal Latina women to clean big beach houses for next to no pay, while the &#8220;boss&#8221; charges full American maid service prices, which he pockets, tax free. A PIGSTY! It isn&#8217;t &#8220;helping&#8221; illegals to call them immigrants and to cloud this horrible issue the way some on the left keep doing. It&#8217;s a crime all over again.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916256', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Carly Corday</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4916252</link>
		<dc:creator>Carly Corday</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can call this a raid by the &quot;bush administration&quot; because it IS happening, and bush IS still in office, but GWB is hand-in-glove with &quot;democrats&quot; when it comes to illegals from south of the border. It&#039;s a myth, and I can&#039;t believe it&#039;s so widely fallen for by you people, that the Coward-in-Chief is anti &quot;imigration&quot;. He&#039;s only anti LEGAL immigration, and so are the lawmakers of both parties -- unfair and stubborn and heartless, and disinterested in reform. I have a Filipina friend who&#039;s waited 11 years for her citizenship, a brilliant lady working as a lowly certified nurse assistant, two jobs in 2 nursing homes, unable to become an RN or even an LPN because her status as a non-citizen keeps off the lists for getting into schools.

All administrations are miserably unfair to immigrants, but your hated CHIMPY is more than fair, monkeys-out-the-butt fair, to citizens of latin countries crossing the border from Mexico into the United States to do whatever the heck they wanna do, whenever, and however. In fact, any married border agent with small kids who shoots one in the ass for trafficking in dope and refusing to halt on command can rot in prison, cast into a general population of latino gang bangers. The Chimp sez so. Chimpy HATES border logic. It makes him yawn! He&#039;d rather do the rumba. He has a lot of very important friends with very big lawns and lots of kids to cook for.

Please don&#039;t make me sick with melodramatic headlines about Bush&#039;s horrible raids on Mexican workers who &quot;might&quot; not be legal. Your left-leaning hearts need to get into the right moral and logical place before we&#039;re going to win the White House and both houses of Congress, and start to change the world after all the crippling damage BUSHCO has done. No more pretend, no more lying to ourselves, on OUR SIDE, either.

By the way, not every Mexican here illegally is a poor man trying to keep his family from starving. Every one of you know that perfectly well.

Would you please get your other glasses on, the one you use to SEE with?

If there&#039;s a story to tell about cruel treatment of Mexican workers in the United States, give us THAT, and leave bush out of it, that&#039;s not an honest slant because bush has no role in any of that. His role is to keep the border open while pretending not to.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can call this a raid by the &#8220;bush administration&#8221; because it IS happening, and bush IS still in office, but GWB is hand-in-glove with &#8220;democrats&#8221; when it comes to illegals from south of the border. It&#8217;s a myth, and I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s so widely fallen for by you people, that the Coward-in-Chief is anti &#8220;imigration&#8221;. He&#8217;s only anti LEGAL immigration, and so are the lawmakers of both parties &#8212; unfair and stubborn and heartless, and disinterested in reform. I have a Filipina friend who&#8217;s waited 11 years for her citizenship, a brilliant lady working as a lowly certified nurse assistant, two jobs in 2 nursing homes, unable to become an RN or even an LPN because her status as a non-citizen keeps off the lists for getting into schools.</p>
<p>All administrations are miserably unfair to immigrants, but your hated CHIMPY is more than fair, monkeys-out-the-butt fair, to citizens of latin countries crossing the border from Mexico into the United States to do whatever the heck they wanna do, whenever, and however. In fact, any married border agent with small kids who shoots one in the ass for trafficking in dope and refusing to halt on command can rot in prison, cast into a general population of latino gang bangers. The Chimp sez so. Chimpy HATES border logic. It makes him yawn! He&#8217;d rather do the rumba. He has a lot of very important friends with very big lawns and lots of kids to cook for.</p>
<p>Please don&#8217;t make me sick with melodramatic headlines about Bush&#8217;s horrible raids on Mexican workers who &#8220;might&#8221; not be legal. Your left-leaning hearts need to get into the right moral and logical place before we&#8217;re going to win the White House and both houses of Congress, and start to change the world after all the crippling damage BUSHCO has done. No more pretend, no more lying to ourselves, on OUR SIDE, either.</p>
<p>By the way, not every Mexican here illegally is a poor man trying to keep his family from starving. Every one of you know that perfectly well.</p>
<p>Would you please get your other glasses on, the one you use to SEE with?</p>
<p>If there&#8217;s a story to tell about cruel treatment of Mexican workers in the United States, give us THAT, and leave bush out of it, that&#8217;s not an honest slant because bush has no role in any of that. His role is to keep the border open while pretending not to.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916252', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: freedom lover</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4916232</link>
		<dc:creator>freedom lover</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It also should be pointed out that TP is in effect supporting identify theft and illegal activity in general, in addition to trying to confuse their readers by referring to illegal aliens as “immigrants”.

that&#039;s bullshit. There is no theft going on if people are working for a living at lower-than-average wages. Again, if the companies officers were not arrested and jailed, then it&#039;s just the same-old, same-old. Republicans are enemies of Aemrica, enemies of growth, enemies of freedom. They are bad for the world, and should be destroyed as a party. Conservatives are an unnecessary drain on the economy and morale of the USA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It also should be pointed out that TP is in effect supporting identify theft and illegal activity in general, in addition to trying to confuse their readers by referring to illegal aliens as “immigrants”.</p>
<p>that&#8217;s bullshit. There is no theft going on if people are working for a living at lower-than-average wages. Again, if the companies officers were not arrested and jailed, then it&#8217;s just the same-old, same-old. Republicans are enemies of Aemrica, enemies of growth, enemies of freedom. They are bad for the world, and should be destroyed as a party. Conservatives are an unnecessary drain on the economy and morale of the USA.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916232', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Immigration2008DotCom</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4916206</link>
		<dc:creator>Immigration2008DotCom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Despite what #7 says above, the company in the small town in GA ended up raising their wages, and plenty of Americans applied for jobs there.

It&#039;s interesting that by opposing enforcement, TP ends up on the same side as crooked businesses, the MexicanGovernment, crooked banks, and corrupt politicians (including, of course, George Bush). It also indicates that their support for &quot;reform&quot; is deceptive: does anyone think they&#039;d support &quot;reform&quot;-mandated enforcement?

It also should be pointed out that TP is in effect supporting identify theft and illegal activity in general, in addition to trying to confuse their readers by referring to illegal aliens as &quot;immigrants&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite what #7 says above, the company in the small town in GA ended up raising their wages, and plenty of Americans applied for jobs there.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s interesting that by opposing enforcement, TP ends up on the same side as crooked businesses, the MexicanGovernment, crooked banks, and corrupt politicians (including, of course, George Bush). It also indicates that their support for &#8220;reform&#8221; is deceptive: does anyone think they&#8217;d support &#8220;reform&#8221;-mandated enforcement?</p>
<p>It also should be pointed out that TP is in effect supporting identify theft and illegal activity in general, in addition to trying to confuse their readers by referring to illegal aliens as &#8220;immigrants&#8221;.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916206', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: RUCerious</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4916202</link>
		<dc:creator>RUCerious</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I advocate treating the employers with the same decorum as their workers are treated. Round em up, put em in cages, send em to _________ (fill in country of choice)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I advocate treating the employers with the same decorum as their workers are treated. Round em up, put em in cages, send em to _________ (fill in country of choice)<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916202', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4916172</link>
		<dc:creator>Bilbo Hussein Baggins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>nycbassist Says:

I know this is off topic.. is there any website that lets you live stream the debate tonight? I’m in NYC and can’t find it on the radio, and have no tv.

http://www.dailykos.com/</description>
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<p>I know this is off topic.. is there any website that lets you live stream the debate tonight? I’m in NYC and can’t find it on the radio, and have no tv.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailykos.com/</a><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916172', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Bilbo Hussein Baggins</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/pope-immigrants/comment-page-1/#comment-4916166</link>
		<dc:creator>Bilbo Hussein Baggins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;Unfortunately, the Bush administration also chose today to carry out immigration raids, arresting more than 280 undocumented workers employed at Pilgrim’s Pride plants in five states. &lt;/em&gt;

So, my question is, did they arrest the owner/operators of this company.  Do you really think that 280 undocumented workers somehow fooled the owners of this company into thinking that they were US residents here legally.  I DON&#039;T THINK SO.  They knew exactly who they were hiring and they did it because they got the undocumented workers cheap and didn&#039;t have to pay any benefits.

I don&#039;t understand why people who think that undocumented workers are a threat to our way of life don&#039;t speak out against the companies who are giving them jobs.  They would not come here if there was not a job waiting for them.  If we are really serious about stopping the flow of undocumented workers, we can solve the problem overnight when we start arresting the people who knowingly hire them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Unfortunately, the Bush administration also chose today to carry out immigration raids, arresting more than 280 undocumented workers employed at Pilgrim’s Pride plants in five states. </em></p>
<p>So, my question is, did they arrest the owner/operators of this company.  Do you really think that 280 undocumented workers somehow fooled the owners of this company into thinking that they were US residents here legally.  I DON&#8217;T THINK SO.  They knew exactly who they were hiring and they did it because they got the undocumented workers cheap and didn&#8217;t have to pay any benefits.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t understand why people who think that undocumented workers are a threat to our way of life don&#8217;t speak out against the companies who are giving them jobs.  They would not come here if there was not a job waiting for them.  If we are really serious about stopping the flow of undocumented workers, we can solve the problem overnight when we start arresting the people who knowingly hire them.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=4916166', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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