Comments on: A year later, Postville has generated discussion but few results

By: unfree

unfree — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:46:46 +0000

I feel so sorry for these law breaker , I'm so happy to pay more and more taxes for there demands. No need for them to follow the laws , like I have too . They deserve so much more then the rest of us, talk about feeling entitled .

By: unfree

unfree — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:46:46 +0000

By: heyjude54

heyjude54 — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:32:58 +0000

No doubt I sound like a cruel-hearted xenophobe but nothing could be further from the truth. After all, my daughter is half Mexican. Still I feel what happened in Postville was a necessary evil; one that needs to be played out repeatedly in thousands of small towns across America. I place the blame directly at the employers who actively seek out these people to move here to work for low wages and normally under terrible working conditions. I do not fault ICE or the courts for attempting to enforce our immigration laws. We wouldn't be in the mess we are in now if these laws had been enforced all along, after the amnesty of 1986.
I will never be convinced that the burden on the taxpayers to subsidize the low wages of undocumented workers is justifiable. “The Heritage study calculated that the average low-skilled immigrant household costs the American taxpayer $19,588 per year.” If employers want the cheap labor, let them pay for their social services, necessary to survive on such little pay!