UPDATE: Sens. Mikulski & Specter push to break cap on H-2B low-skill workers -- keeping more Americans unemployed
The federal government released the numbers for jobless claims from the first week of February on Thursday and the numbers jumped another 170,000. Yet, as American workers continue to lose their jobs, Senators Barbara Mikulski, Arlen Specter and 23 other cosponsors have proposed legislation exempting tens of thousands of former H-2B holders from the current cap of 66,000. If passed, S. 388 could triple the number of less-educated foreign workers in the country taking jobs away from less-educated American workers. (thanks for the tip, Pris)
ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN U.S. CITIZENS??
Phoenix, AZ) -- An Arizona rancher has been ordered to pay more than 73-thousand dollars in damages to a group of illegal immigrants he allegedly detained at gunpoint after finding them on his property in March 2004. The Mexican nationals claim Roger Barnett yelled threats and obscenities at them, threatened to turn his dog loose, and kicked one of the women before turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol. A jury at the U.S. District Court in Tucson found the 64-year-old liable Tuesday for
assault and inflicting emotional distress.
He was not found liable on claims of battery, false imprisonment and civil rights violations. Barnett lives on a 22-thousand-acre ranch near Douglas that is frequently traversed by people entering the United States illegally.
(Z: nobody advocates kicking anybody, but can you imagine how this rancher feels seeing thousands use his land to sneak into America? Think this was the first and only bunch to do this and he's just a nut with a gun? I don't)AND THEN THERE IS THIS!! Yes, Mr. Obama has signed an Executive Order pushing federal construction projects to favor union workers. Michael Steele says this about it and he is SO right:
“President Obama’s executive order will drive up the cost of government at a time when we should be doing everything possible to save taxpayer dollars. Federal contracts should go to the businesses that can offer taxpayers the best value - not just the unions who supported the Democrats’ campaigns last year. Quietly signing executive orders to payback campaign backers undermines Obama promise to change Washington. It is a disappointment for Americans hoping for more transparency and less politics as usual in Washington.”
Z: So...there you go! A rancher wasn't nice to people breaking our laws on his land and has to pay thousands of dollars to them (What a COUNTRY!) and we have a president who doesn't understand that being Machiavellian for his agenda doesn't help this country.
Always on Watch alerts geeeeeZ to this video which you MUST watch. ACORN on foreclosures and how home ownership is a RIGHT. wow. Thanks, Alwaysz