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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 07:51 AM Original message |
Crackdown on immigrants empties a town and hardens views |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. Rename the town Stillborn, GA n/t |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:09 AM Response to Original message |
2. What the ice agents are doing is terrifying. |
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acmejack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:34 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. ILLEGAL |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 09:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. And those Americans are not going to move to Georgia to take |
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primavera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:54 AM Response to Reply #12 |
22. That's it precisely |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 05:16 PM Response to Reply #12 |
44. According to the article, they ARE. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 09:56 AM Response to Reply #8 |
15. Oh, so YOU have lost your job to a foreigner who doesn't even |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:53 AM Response to Reply #15 |
21. In one sense we "lose jobs" whether a new factory is located |
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primavera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 11:08 AM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Excellent point |
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Xipe Totec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 09:55 PM Response to Reply #21 |
45. I've often tried to make the same point |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 11:06 AM Response to Reply #15 |
24. Deleted message |
anotherdrew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 11:23 AM Response to Reply #15 |
27. if we had reasonable farm labor practices, americans would pick |
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acmejack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 02:41 PM Response to Reply #15 |
36. My response to you was deleted. |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:36 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. I agree completely. |
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primavera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 11:24 AM Response to Reply #19 |
28. So what, you've never jaywalked in your life? |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 01:13 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Sure I've jaywalked. But I've never smuggled. |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 02:17 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. I am in favor of increased immigration, even "amnesty." |
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primavera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 03:26 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Good way of putting it |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 02:24 PM Response to Reply #19 |
34. But... |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 01:15 PM Response to Reply #8 |
32. They took your job? |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 04:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
41. yeah there's oodles of Americans fighting |
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EnviroBat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 04:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
43. Thank You 100% correct... |
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GiveUsHope (61 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-05-06 01:26 PM Response to Reply #8 |
46. So were they when they were beating up disobedient blacks |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:11 AM Response to Original message |
3. heh. . "round up all the illegals" |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
4. This is an old story, and the fallout from the raid was instructive |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:27 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Where oh where are the folks to fill the shoes of Upton Sinclair |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:45 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. From Mexico's perspective, the current situation works well |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 09:12 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. Actually, people learned a lot from the Gilded Age. |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 09:28 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. And there was a second eruption in the 1890's |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:26 AM Response to Original message |
5. Safe in Texico - |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:27 AM Response to Original message |
7. I just checked. Yes, Stillmore was raided a month ago. This story |
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acmejack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 08:38 AM Response to Reply #7 |
9. David Robinson was undoubtedly running a profitable little slum. |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. The wrong people are being arrested. nt |
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primavera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 12:30 PM Response to Reply #9 |
29. And you're not? |
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acmejack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 02:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
35. Right I should quit eating as a protest |
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primavera (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 03:20 PM Response to Reply #35 |
38. Good for you |
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mitchtv (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 04:17 PM Response to Reply #38 |
42. I can't wait till the start roundups in Calif |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
11. They are a part of the economy and the law should be changed to |
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Acadia Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
17. Raise the wage and Americans will move to the town. Oh but |
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Acadia Blue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:34 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. After Katrina, McDonalds and other started paying 10.00 an hour |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
20. The bottom line is this.. |
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Sequoia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 10:58 AM Response to Original message |
23. You mean the Nazi's are rounding up the Polish Jews again...at night? |
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conscious evolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
26. My dad is from Stillmore |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
31. Delete |
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sadiesworld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
37. The corporate press lamenting the loss of cheap labor, again... |
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pampango (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-04-06 03:39 PM Response to Reply #37 |
40. There are also a lot of us with a humanitarian perspective |
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