Comments on: Coast Would Shut Down Without Illegals

By: Juanita y Carlos

Juanita y Carlos — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:40:56 +0000

SeÃ±or Will. Nuestros niÃ±os necesitan una buena educaciÃ³n mientras que limpiamos hoteles y trabajamos en campos. Usted sabe que los vouchers nunca ayudarÃ¡n a nuestros niÃ±os. Fije por favor los problemas verdaderos con educaciÃ³n y pare el scam del vouchers.

By: FITSNews

FITSNews — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:28:57 +0000

Kate-

Sic Willie would like to know if he can help you and pa harvest the last of the winter wheat.

-FITSNews

By: Kate Hughey

Kate Hughey — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:48:53 +0000

I comletely agree. We have a medium sized family farm in the upstate and without our faithful crews of hispanic immigrants each year we could never harvest. The truth is that, for whatever reason, local populations will not do these kinds of jobs (farming, food service, hospitality and construction) for ANY wage let alone the unrealistic wage that the immigration bills currently uner discussion require that we pay. I don’t have the answer or a solution but I do know that “deporting them all now” would simply create more problems than solve.

By: Raoul

Raoul — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:45:47 +0000

The Grand Strand’s tourism economy might grind to a halt.
OR …. the “deport ‘em now” tact might just force fat-cat business owners who use illegals as a cheap source of labor to pay a decent, living wage to legal residents who don’t pack five families and all their relatives into one house and can’t afford to pay for day care, groceries, health care, rent, etc. on the $8 or $9 an hour — with no benefits — that the hotel and restaurant owners are paying.

By: Earl Capps

Earl Capps — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:23:56 +0000

Being a Lowcountry native, I can find plenty of silver lining in the clouds of a tourism shutdown. Maybe some of these people would finally figure out what those northbound lanes on I-95 were built for – to LEAVE.

Now come on, do you really think those Slavic girls need to leave? After all, they look like us, so they can’t be illegal. If they are, it must be due to some paperwork error, or they are simply vicitms of a government bureaucracy run amok.

The only bad immigrants are those who don’t look like us, didn’t you know that?

By: Rob W.

Rob W. — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:12:04 +0000

Hooray for common sense. Still haven’t heard a good plan for dealing with the glut of open jobs.