CHEF NEEDS HELP.

I've been hearing grumblings around the kitchen this morning about a "secret" protest being planned for tomorrow by some of our friends from south of the border.  They are planning a "day without a Mexican" kind of thing like last years failed attempt, but are trying to keep it under wraps this time as to increase the "damage".  I have a couple of gringo sympathizers who leaked the info to me this morning.  I'm seeing nothing in the news so I thought I'd fish for more info...Thanks.

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:34 AM by Desechado

Today KSL has the story about the "rally" being planned for today. I checked out their blog on this article and found something that interrested me enough to post it here:

A DAY WITHOUT ILLEGAL ALIENS
Report Commentby eotpr @ 7:25am - Tue May 1st, 2007
 
They boycott us! They rail against us! They deride us in our own country! They trash our language! They disregard our laws! They flood our schools while bankrupting our hospitals! They fly their flag in our country as if it’s more important than ours! They screamed, “Buy nothing gringo!”

It's simple! Either the United States is a nation of laws. Or, it isn't!

Either we respect and obey our immigration laws, and ALL laws! Or, we don't! Either the ongoing flagrant disregard of our borders is a law-breaking renegade action! Or, it isn't!

Either employers enjoy blatant disregard for our laws against hiring illegals and thus make unlawful profits! Or, they don't! Either President Bush upholds the laws of our Constitution! Or, he doesn’t!

Foreign enclaves on our soil fail the American Dream. Cultural apartheid accelerates national chaos! E Pluribus Unum – “Out of Many, One”! We must learn, respect, and use the English language, and honor our civic due-diligence. Or, we fail as a nation!

Countless billions of underprivileged poor in third-world countries desire to come to the United States. Our immigration laws are enacted to control that ingress, but our government panders to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. That drives a piece of our economic engine--as it did in Paris, France--before the whole thing blew up. Australia, too!

In the last three decades, we added 44 million recent aliens, plus millions of anchor-babies. Each can sponsor citizenship for their parents and relatives in the near future. We suffer accelerating anarchy--an explosion waiting to happen.

The simple choice is:

Lawlessness and anarchy! Or, respectful law-and-order! In an ironic twist--aliens fled lawlessness and failed societies.

HOW MANY ILLEGAL ALIENS--REALLY?

Major political chicanery deceives Americans. While the U.S. Bureau of the Census tells us there are "only" 12 million illegals; more specific population indicators tell us there are more--MANY MORE! Time Magazine’s Pulitzer Prize winning authors Barlett and Steele informed us that the Census is wrong by a factor of three. Bear-Stearns proved 20 million illegals--plus their children. Head-counts in public schools verify higher numbers. Here is a VERY accurate estimate from Time Magazine, Bear-Stearns Report, NumbersUSA, additional figures from U.S. State Department, U.S Labor Department, U.S Immigration authorities, plus seven million anchor-babies research by Dr. Edwards of Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, DC.

In June, 2006:
44,000,000 Approximate number of recent aliens in U S (97% arrived during 1996-2005 10-Yr period)
9,832,000 Legal aliens (~4.5 million earned citizenship.)
7,204,000 Visa -expired (over-stayed illegally)
27,000,000 Illegal aliens (includes children shown below)
4,000,000 Children of illegal aliens (undocumented, age 1-20)
7,000,000 Children of illegal aliens (citizens, anchor babies)
44,036,000 Total; best count possible (accuracy is + or – 3%)
4,500,000 Instantaneous rate of illegals-entry, 2006 (per year) Which is 12,200 per day (night)

How many ‘new’ foreign nationals will there bin in 2006?

The 2006 "Growth Rate" is GIGANTIC:
4,500,000 "Border-Jumpers" (estimated undocumented, illegals)
1,100,000 New "Anchor Babies" (estimated children of illegals)
1,700,000 New Legal Aliens (numbers jumbled-buried)
1,300,000 Overstay Visa aliens
8,600,000 Total in 2006, 'new' in U S

What is the impact of this huge, unplanned influx? The answer: CHAOS! Our public schools flirt with disaster. Our prisons gush with illegal felons! Our public hospitals, likewise!

Our taxes explode through the roof! Believe it or not, our government is "doing it to us" while we never voted on this question. That is lawlessness-anarchy personified. Our Social-Services systems suffer overloading; fixed-income citizen-taxpayers decline into poverty.

Many of our lower-middle-class breadwinners (more than 20 million in the last ten years) have shifted into "the welfare society" when their jobs vanished. Catastrophic!

What about suffering American citizens? In 2006, some five million more Americans suffer job loss to aliens through insourcing, outsourcing, offshoring and wage depression. It is disastrous for America’s working poor.

Thirty million U.S. citizen-taxpayers have already lost their jobs to aliens. American workers are being displaced and replaced by millions of foreign workers legally and illegally brought into the United States. It’s being engineered by President Bush and a complicit Congress.

When the rate of immigration exceeds the rate of assimilation--it is a recipe for the destruction of any civilization.

What would it be like with a day without illegal aliens?

If illegals represent 12% of the U.S. population, what would happen if they boycotted not for a day, but for a decade by leaving our country?

- We would have ~12% more gasoline available in the free market.
- Our highway crowding would alleviate by 20 million people.
- More used automobiles and homes would be for sale, and cheaper.
- Apartment rents would reduce; supply-and-demand.
- Public school overcrowding would diminish by 1.5 million at the very least.
- The remaining American students would receive excellent educations in English.

--In Colorado, $3,000.000.00 would be saved in one day because illegals wouldn’t be taping into public services. It varies in each state as to numbers of illegals. The savings in ten years would be astronomical.

- Hospital crowding would diminish, and budgets would improve. - The need for social-services would diminish by billions of dollars. - Produce-fruit prices would increase by 13%. Cheap compared to what taxpayers pay for services.

--Crime would drop dramatically and prisons would empty saving billions of dollars.



America would not suffer balkanization, language apartheid, cultural apartheid, angry non-citizens, chaotic schools and bankrupted hospitals. Benefits gained include more jobs for Americans, peaceful communities, less drunks on highways, less burglaries, less rapes, greater honesty in business, fair wages paid to Americans and SO much more. Let’s have illegal aliens boycott the USA for a decade. We would all be better off and our country would be lawful, peaceful and sustainable.

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:42 AM by Melchor

You all complain about illegal immigration. What would you do without them. They do jobs that you guys would never do. About 15 years ago I was a restaurant manager. All we had to fill certain jobs with teens that were still in school (dishwashers and busboys). Almost on a weekly basis, I had complaints to stop hiring school kids and to hire adults. Now, the restaurant industry is hiring adults to fill these jobs and just because they come from south of the border you guys complain.
Desechado has a brother in law that is a farmer in Idaho. Every year he has to hire a couple illegals just because that is the only way he can find enough help with the harvest. If he didn't have this pool of employees to hire from, he would loose part of his crop every year.
There is too much complaining about illegals, but I have yet to hear what we would do if we didn't have the help of them in the job market. Just look at how shorthanded many stores are now because of the low unemployment and the reduction of illegals and legal immigrant workers.

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:12 PM by Splittfinger

"they do jobs that you guys would never do"  Who started that rumor?  Never is front to end, "we guys" did do those jobs before the illegals were here, and many who do it now are not illegals, they may be hispanic (aka Mexican), but not illegal.  If they want to come here legally and do "those kinds" of jobs, that is great.

Melchor is lumping Legal Immigrants with Illegal immigrants.  If EVERY illegal immigrant ditched for the day, we would be fine.  But when the legal immigrants go along with these lame protest, it "sort of" causes a problem.

If they all left, there would still be legal immigrates here, doing the "jobs that you guys would never do"

Lame arguemnt

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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:51 PM by Desechado

Isn't it funny that so many libs like Melkor lump illegal immigration issues with legal immigration issues. It's almost like they are making this an issue about race and nationality instead of what it really is... illegal immigration. As for me, I have an uncle who was a Mexican immigrant from around 1950. It was funny listening to him go on about illegal immigrants who try to go around the law to immigrate instead of doing it the right way. After gaining citizenship, he volunteered in the US Army and fought in Korea. He was proud to be a US citizen.
I work with a legal immigrant from Canada. She has been in the US for over 20 years. Her complaints are interresting. There are times when she complaines that Spanish speaking immigrants are treated better by the Immigration Office than she is. Then she goes on about all the money she has had to pay for legal status while so many hispanic immigrants avoid the cost. As for anchor babies, she is a mother of five. All her children where born here. A few years ago she was almost deported because of a clerical error at the immigration office and it didn't matter that she had 5 children born here that were US citizens.

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:00 AM by Splittfinger

Looks like this protest was a failure..

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:47 AM by chefinfidel

Sorry guys, the protest was obvlously a flop, although all of my immigrant employees did come to me and ask for tuesday off.  I told them no, too late for notice.  They all came on tuesday.

Here's what both sides don't want t admit.  We (all of us) have dug a huge hole with the immigration problem.  
The "they do jobs we would never do" is hogwash, at least in the food service industry.
It's also hogwash that we could send them all back tomorrow and Americans could step in and fill in with no problem.  
There are just too many jobs filled with illegal immigrants right now.  Demand for products is through the roof in the last few years. Demand for employees right now is killing my industry-they're just not out there.  We have been trying to fill tons of positions mostly traditionally non-immigrant positions and just aren't getting applicants. We are now slowly reaching into the old immigrant bucket to fill the positions.  The pay is competative, the hours are good, the work is easy, but the potential employees just aren't there.  
Basically, there are more positions out there than there are legal American workers.  
It's our fault. All of us.  We demand them everytime we go out to eat, or buy lettuce, or wish that bathroom at work would be cleaner in the morning.  Now we want the government to fix it.  I say let capitalism fix it.  The goverment isn't going to do anything about it.  They're not going to stop coming illegally, any more than drugs are going to stop coming over.  We're not going to ship them back, because we like our McDonalds too much.  The current legal immigration process is laughable-ask anyone who has tried to do it legally.
Sure, they're annoying, with their ungrateful attitudes, causing our health care and car insurance premiums to go up, they bring alot of crime, but make up your minds, do you want groceries, Taco Bell, and new houses, or do you want to flex our muscles and throw them all back.
There is middle ground.  We need to know who's here, where they came from and what they are doing here.  They need to pay taxes, pay for medical costs and learn english.  
Many on my side have a problem with letting the illegals become legal while here, claiming that it's not right to change the law just because noone obeys it, but I don't remember those same people complaining when the speed limits where raised, cause nobody obeyed them.

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 12:13 PM by Desechado

Amen.

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:29 PM by Melchor

I think I like what Chef has said. We dug the hole we are in and now are complaining because we have to live in it.

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:47 PM by chefinfidel

I guess Melchor can't be wrong 100% of the time.  99.9999% pretty sad, though.

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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:59 PM by Splittfinger

Wow, chef.  That was good. Give that guy a medal or something.  A microphone at least.