The nation’s cruelest immigration law - new york times editorial (license, illegal immigrants)

[All American NYC]

The new regime does not spare American citizens. Businesses that knowingly employ illegal immigrants will lose their licenses.... Anyone knowingly “concealing, harboring or shielding” an illegal immigrant could be charged with a crime, say for renting someone an apartment or driving her to church or the doctor....You’d think that any state would think twice before embracing a law that so vividly brings to mind the Fugitive Slave Act, the brutal legal and law-enforcement apparatus of the Jim Crow era, and the civil-rights struggle led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But waves of anti-immigrant hostility have made many in this country forget who and what we are.

Do you think these laws are cruel?

If not what are other alternatives?

[chicagonut]

Jim Crow, MLK and the civil rights era? Are they kidding me? Who is anti-"immigrant" anyway? Just more lies and spin by the pro-illegals.

[Rick Roma]

Of course they are not cruel. We have no obligation to citizens of other countries. We also don't have the resources and infrastructure to accomodate all the citizens of other countries who want to come here. That's why we need immigration laws.

[All American NYC]

The thing is they mentioned the fugitive slave act. America doesn't have any slaves. illegals voluntarily come here.

[rhymetime]

Originally Posted by chicagonut

Jim Crow, MLK and the civil rights era? Are they kidding me? Who is anti-"immigrant" anyway? Just more lies and spin by the pro-illegals.

Here's someone who is anti-immigrant. And talking about LEGAL immigrants.

Miami and much of Florida look like little Havana with most Cubans insisting on Spanish only.

I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out who the mystery anti-immigrant poster is.

[rhymetime]

Originally Posted by Rick Roma

We have no obligation to citizens of other countries. We also don't have the resources and infrastructure to accomodate all the citizens of other countries who want to come here. That's why we need immigration laws.

I agree that you have no obligation to others. But that doesn't give you a license to interfere with other people and prevent them from working, nor does it mean you have a right to get in my business and tell me who I can hire.

If you don't want to pay for them, then I suggest you stop doing it. Not interfere with other people's private transactions.

[proveick]

ILLEGAL alien. NUF SAID (why is this so hard for people to understand) ILLEGAL, DUH

[Toyman at Jewel Lake]

So...in someone's sick, twisted mind, treating CRIMINALS like, well, criminals, equates to Jim Crow laws? Or slavery? The only "slavery" involved is when these criminals are brought in and work illegally for those that will employ them in below legal conditions. That's not SLAVERY when they come here illegally and by choice.

I think the writers at the NYT need to put down the crack pipe.

[rhymetime]

Originally Posted by Toyman at Jewel Lake

So...in someone's sick, twisted mind, treating CRIMINALS like, well, criminals, equates to Jim Crow laws?

Yeah, those black people drinking out of the wrong water fountain were CRIMINALS. PERIOD. NUFF SAID.

[chicagonut]

Originally Posted by Arjay51

You say that you are okay with the stop paying them scenario, yet not with interfering with other peoples private transactions.

What a hypocrite.

Not only that but Americans are obligated to pay for these illegal's social costs through our taxes. We don't get a say in how our taxes are spent.