Another immigration crisis in the Hamptons?

"Year after year, Dune Management depends on dozens of Dominican and Jamaican housekeeping and laundry workers to get through the summer season in the Hamptons.
But this year, federal officials surprised the company when they denied temporary visas for the workers." -Newsday

Hmmm, President George Bush wants a guest worker program as part of "comprehensive immigration reform" legislation. Then all of a sudden the Department of Labor puts the squeeze on a temporary visa program that has been working for years providing temporary labor for the hotels and resorts of the east end of Long Island. Something smells fishy especially since immigration reform is hot in Washington this year.

Here are the money quotes:
"I have never seen a bigger disaster than the Department of Labor has created this year," said Libby Whitley, president of Mid-Atlantic Solutions, a Virginia-based agency that handles the petitioning process for employers in several states, including New York."

So it looks the Bush administration deliberately created a crisis so that Bush and the pro-illegal amnesty groups including the gang of four and others could push through an immigration plan geared to their interests of businesses and pro-amnesty groups not those of the American people and U.S. border security.

"If we don't get them, I don't know what we would do," said Carolina Swanson, director of human resources for the company, which manages 16 resort and residential properties on the South Fork. "I really don't have a Plan B."

How about this for a plan B. Raise the salary you are offering so that it will be attractive to local citizens, High School and college students. I love it when businesses preach about the law of supply and demand when they raise their prices but, scream when it effects them.

"On Monday at 9 a.m., [Congressman Tim] Bishop and local officials will hold a public meeting with business owners at Gurney's Inn in Montauk to discuss solutions."

This fits in nicely with Congressman Tim Bishop's agenda which is in agreement with President Bush in regards to an amnesty for illegal immigrants already in the country meanwhile he voted against legislation that would have increased security at the borders and cracked down on illegal immigrants already in the country . Funny how quickly Congressman Bishop calls a meeting with business owners on Monday at 9 a.m. But, has ignored the concerns of his constituents for years about the hundreds of illegal immigrants loitering around in middle class communities all over his district on Long Island.

It certainly looks like this "visa crisis" was manufactured by those in Washington from President Bush to Congressman Bishop to give them cover to push through an immigration reform plan that helps businesses that want cheap disposable labor while ignoring the concerns of the middle class taxpayers who will be subsidizing this workforce. They must think we are fools.

How to read illegal immigration articles in the mainstream media!

Bias in covering the illegal immigration issue prevalent in the mainstream media. Here on Long Island Newsday is notorious in their biased coverage of the issue along with Cablevision's News 12 newschannel. Both of these corporate media outlets have a vested interest in the illegal immigrant population growing as they have interests in Spanish language media. The latest show of bias comes in today's Washington Post in an article written by Sylvia Moreno.

It starts with the headline: "Immigration Raid Leaves Texas Town a Skeleton" making it appear that enforcement of U.S. immigration laws is a bad thing.
It should have have read: "Raids Show Extent of Illegal Immigration Problem in U.S."

There are other signs of how big the problem regarding the influx of illegal immigrants into communities like Cactus Texas that are buried in the article. Like this little tidbit shoved down into paragraph ten:

"Some local officials recently said that 75 percent of the city's estimated 5,000 residents before the raid were illegal immigrants. Aguilar disputes that, saying it was only 15 percent."


If I were a legal resident in Cactus I would be concerned that even 15% of the residents were criminals who violated U.S. law. But, it turns out the Mr. Aguilar who tries to downplay the lower amount of illegal residents in his community is also the Mayor. In fact he was also an illegal immigrant himself at one time. But, thanks to the 1986 amnesty was granted citizenship and now also has a vested interest in keeping the illegal immigrant population in the town high . As this quote in paragraph eight shows:

"These are my people," said Aguilar, 50, who today owns the largest house in Cactus, a nearby 575-acre ranch, a laundromat and the town's only full-fledged grocery store. About half of his 26 rental units are empty now."

You need to read all the way down to paragraph thirteen to see why the raids occurred in the first place:

"But authorities charge that these immigrants had false identity documents, enabling them to get driver's licenses and jobs illegally, victimizing U.S. citizens and fueling the fraudulent document industry. Traffic stops or crime reports became confusing events in Cactus in recent years. Immigrants would offer two names, said former Cactus Police Chief Tim Turley. The had "el verdadero," as they called it -- the true name -- and their work name."

Translation these illegals where not only in the country illegally they also used identity theft to get jobs in the country. These are felony criminals in addition to being illegal immigrants. While people Mayor Aguilar chooses to look the other way and not enforce U.S. law and mainstream media outlets continue to downplay the problem it is up to the law abiding citizens of this country to say enough is enough and make people respect our laws including immigration by enforcing them.

SOME BCP AWARDS FOR 2006

Well as 2006 comes to an end I thought it might be a good time to hand out some year end awards.

BEST EXAMPLE OF A POLITICAN SHOOTING HIMSELF IN THE FOOT:

NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON

BEST EXAMPLE OF A POLITICIAN SHOOTING SOMEONE ELSE IN THE FACE:

DICK CHENEY

BEST LETTER TO THE EDITOR:

TO THE WASHINGTON POST

WORST REPORTING BY A NEWSPAPER:

NEWSDAY

SMELLIEST DEAL MADE BY AN INSTITUTION THAT RECEIVES PUBLIC FUNDS:

SMITHSONIAN

These are just a few of the items that aroused my attention in 2006. There were MANY more but, tonight it is time to celebrate the New Year arriving and to paraphrase Dorothy Parker see what fresh hell the new year brings. Happy New Year Everyone!