[Vision2020] Sali Seeks to Delay Mexican Consulate

Fri May 2 22:01:27 PDT 2008

Joe,

  Are you serious? Or are you joking? If you have been anywhere outside the protective bubble of a University, you must be joking. 

  First off, the only reason that Mexican Consulates exist is to get illegal aliens access to US government services, like welfare, unemployment benefits, food stamps, diver's licenses, gas vouchers, low income housing, legal aid, and jobs, that would otherwise go to US citizens. 

  Second, you are wrong that Americans would not take farm work if the farm work paid a livable wage. If you believe  that ANY workers should be allowed to be paid a sub-livable wage, than you sir, need to rethink your outlook on the value of a person. 

  Third, your statements reveal your racists and stereotyped beliefs. Illegal aliens are not all a bunch of dumb, idiotic potato pickers making $4 an hour. Most of them are bright, intelligent, hard working inventive people, certainly more so than the bottom 1/3 of US workers they are competing with in the US job market. They work in the hospitality, construction, manufacturing, agriculture, automotive, and almost every other category in the below middle class job market. Having 40,000 illegal immigrants in the state willing and able to work in the jobs lower class citizens can only do hurts their wages. Why does a business only pay a house cleaner $10 an hour instead of $12? Because he can hire 30 others willing to do the work for the $10. Same goes for meat packers, lawn services, farm workers, and other services and industries. 

  Joe, you don't live in the real world. You aren't forced to find a job making $10 an hour, and when you apply you are waiting with 20 others that are willing to do the same job for $9 and have 20 years experience, most of them not here legally? How many times have you had that happen to you, Joe? I bet none. You live in the fantasy world where illegals are bunch of dumb educated idiots that can only pick potatoes and tomatoes for $4. They are aren't carpenters, drivers, maids, painters, lawn care providers, manufacturers, and in other jobs reducing livable wages for the bottom 1/3 of the work US workforce.
  Real wages are on a decline, and most US citizens are suffering as a result of illegal immigrants being allowed to work in the US for lower wages, and sometimes illegal wages. 

  Oppose Slavery, Joe. Oppose illegal immigration. Support livable wages for all US workers, Joe. Oppose illegal immigration. 

  Best Regards,

  Donovan

Joe Campbell <joekc at adelphia.net> wrote:
  Donovan,

How on earth will Sali's efforts "keep illegal activities and illegal immigrants 
out of the state"? For that matter, what can the Mexican government do to 
prove that they "won't aid illegal aliens" and earn a Mexican consulate here?

And just for the record, I'm sure that there are plenty of folks in Idaho and 
Washington who would be willing to pay you sub-minimum wage to pick fruit.
The problem is not with the Mexican immigrants, and they aren't taking away 
jobs that would otherwise go to American citizens.

--
Joe Campbell

---- Donovan Arnold wrote: 

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I am voting to reelect Bill Sali precisely because he is attempting to keep illegal activities and illegal immigrants out of the state. Idaho has enough problems getting enough funding for its schools, and providing other social and medical services. Having to provide for thousands of others who are not legal residents is to much of a burden for poor Idahoans. An influx of labor also reduces wages, something we also can ill afford in Idaho. 

Best Regards,

Donovan

Tom Hansen wrote:
Just when you thought that Bill Sali couldn't get more ignorant, I am here 
to tell you . . .

>From today's (May 1, 2008) Spokesman Review -

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Sali seeks to delay Mexican consulate 
Todd Dvorak 
Associated Press
May 1, 2008

BOISE – Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho, is urging Secretary of State Condoleezza 
Rice to hold off opening a Mexican consulate in Idaho until the government 
can show the office won't aid illegal aliens.

Sali, a conservative first-term congressman, sent Rice a letter Wednesday 
saying Idaho residents deserve guarantees that Mexican consular offices 
will not help illegal aliens obtain identification cards that can be used 
to receive government services or other benefits.

"Our government has the moral and constitutional duty to take into 
consideration how foreign consulates affect our fellow citizens here in 
our own country," Sali wrote in the letter to Rice that was made available 
to news media.

"While I appreciate the important role that the Mexican and other foreign 
consulates play in facilitating trade and assisting their citizens in 
distress just as our foreign consulates do, that is not the issue at stake 
here," he added.

Sali asserted that the State Department has done little to assure 
residents that a consular office would not be used to aid illegal 
immigration.

The State Department did not return phone messages from the Associated 
Press on Wednesday.

In March, Sali received a letter from the State Department saying an 
application for a consular office in Boise is pending.

Idaho is one of several states without a Mexican consulate, but a grass-
roots effort to open one has been under way for several years. Supporters 
say they have collected about 10,000 signatures on a petition requesting a 
Mexican consular presence in the state.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"People who ridicule others while hiding behind anonymous monikers in chat-
room forums are neither brave nor clever." 

- Latah County Sheriff Wayne Rausch (August 21,
2007)

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