Other than untalented and unskilled do-gooders who have to “help” others (who don’t give a crap about them) and make themselves feel good, why else would anyone want illegals around?

Cheap, slave labor. Immigration crackdowns don’t hurt “our” economy, Prof, but they hurt yours, don’t they?

The gas prices are the way of modern fancy crooks to kill the buffalo for the poor and hungry! (remember HISTORY?)
Adios guisaches!

Feds Stage Raid For Illegals Downtown

Immigration Agents Arrest About 50 Contruction Workers At The New Federal Courthouse
By 1140wrva.com
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Richmond, VA (1140wrva.com) The Feds took away dozens of suspected illegal immigrants working at the new Federal Courthouse construction site in downtown - according to witnesses. A construction worker says State Police surrounded the bulding around 8am and then I.C.E. (Immigration Customs Enforcement) and FBI officers moved in and rounded up about 50 workers.

Many of the workers ran when they heard what was going on - and tried to hide in the building. Officers were still going through the buildling hours later. One of the construction workers at the scene says about half of the workers there were probably illegals.

Tompkins Builders, Inc. has recently been awarded the U.S. Richmond Courthouse project by the U.S. General Services Administration’s Philadelphia office. Tompkins Builders is the general contractor for the project, expected to start in February 2005 and be built by the year 2008.

This $74.3 million project involves the construction of a 337,000 sq. ft. courthouse includes 64 inside parking spaces. The building’s design includes a steel structure with a progressive collapse feature. The curtainwall will consists of blast resistant glass and glazing with side plate connections. The structure will include stone and precast concrete with ornamental steel rails. The raised accessed floors will be made of Portland cement terrazzo.

The proposed Courthouse will provide housing for the U.S. District Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, U.S. Probation Office, Pretrial Services Office, Federal Public Defender, U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Trustees Office and other tenants. [end of quote]

The completion date on this project was this month. I suspect the Government contracting officer got fed up with delays and dropped the dime on Tompkins. I hate to see criminal laws being used for administrative purposes, especially when the contracting officer probably was aware of the makeup of the workforce from the inception of the project.

No, but Federal laws DO apply…which is probably why ICE raided the site.

Nice kicker at the end. Kalifornia politics at it’s best!

You want to hit Kaine on this and other issues: This is from his schedule:

Tuesday
May 13, 2008 Transportation Town Hall. Governor Kaine will discuss the upcoming transportation special session. No sign-in is required to attend or ask questions. All town hall meetings are open to the public and media.
NOTE: An additional town hall location for Northern Virginia (Loudoun) will be announced next week. 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Dr. A.J. Ferlazzo Building
15941 Donald Curtis Drive
Woodbridge, Va

Your taxpayer dollars are hard at work paying wages to persons who are not legally allowed to work in the United States because Governor Kaine and Dick Saslaw refuse to consider measures that would effectively reform the public procurement process in Virginia.

Virginia laws affecting public procurement would have no affect on contracts for federal projects.

“Feds arrest illegal immigrants who are trying to leave USA”

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/05/feds-arrest-ill.html

In a nutshell, the feds are checking immigration status of those leaving the country at the San Diego-Tijuana border crossing. Those who have criminal records or numerous immigration violations are arrested (this poorly written blog doesn’t mention those who have warrants). Other illegals are processed and returned to Mexico within a few hours.

This action is a strike against illegal criminals who try to flee the country to avoid arrest and capture. I hope the ones who are returned to Mexico are given deportation orders, so that they will be processed criminally if they return.