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Whenever I've contracted work to be done on my house I make it clear up-front that I will not accept a crew on my property that speaks only Spanish. I also emphasize that everyone needs to have papers. I've asked to see peoples' green cards before; they are supposed to carry them with them.
And they're welcome to provide proof of permission to work in this country, green card or EAD.
It's my house and I get to make the rules. If you don't like it, go work on someone else's house.
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Originally Posted by Idon'tdateyou
I do this too. I would ask my dad for his contractor he has used because this guy only uses Americans (mostly college students actually). If you can't speak English and only speak Spanish, nope not going to hire you.
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Originally Posted by BigDGeek
No;I'd do the same thing to a Chinese-speaking crew or a German-speaking crew, but you don't see many of those around here. Just Spanish-speaking ones.
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I would do exactly what I did 13 years ago when I built my house. I would ask the contractor if his employees had their green cards. Mine said yeah they all do. I said good prove it. He said he didn't need to to. I said no proof then get off my property before I call the police.
I had another mason on the job within a few days. It cost me $400.00 more dollars and I don't regret it one bit.
Question for those that have responded by their quotes above: You ask for the "Green Card" of a "Spanish-speaker" (that seems to be the primary thing people are identifying above), he shakes his head (maybe in disbelief), and walks away. What are you able to determine from what transpired?
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Not supposed to carry... Required to carry...
18 or older, required to carry. Possible misdemeanor offense if caught. And let's understand that this whole topic is on the premise of somehow burdening the 18% of Hispanics that are illegal aliens (nevermind any other ethnicity), without a care of how nutty the other 82% will think it is.
For one when you know the whole crew is just one ethnicity, you know there is some very blatant discrimination and racism going on. Really how can all the employees be only hispanic and not one American white or American black, and no one can speak English?
What's really dumb is to allow them on your property and risk them getting hurt because if they're illegals, most likely they aren't covered by insurance and they'll sue the hell out of you.
Question for those that have responded by their quotes above: You ask for the "Green Card" of a "Spanish-speaker" (that seems to be the primary thing people are identifying above), he shakes his head (maybe in disbelief), and walks away. What are you able to determine from what transpired?
Like I said before, I'd do the same thing to any crew that arrived on my property unable to speak English, or speaking any foreign language to each other.
However, you have to be realistic and face facts. This is Texas...a border state. The overwhelming majority of illegal aliens here are from Mexico or Central American nations. FACT. 99 times out of 100 when a homeowner encounters an illegal alien sent by a contractor to work on their property, that illegal alien is going to be a Spanish-speaker.
Like I said before, I'd do the same thing to any crew that arrived on my property unable to speak English, or speaking any foreign language to each other.
However, you have to be realistic and face facts. This is Texas...a border state. The overwhelming majority of illegal aliens here are from Mexico or Central American nations. FACT. 99 times out of 100 when a homeowner encounters an illegal alien sent by a contractor to work on their property, that illegal alien is going to be a Spanish-speaker.
You have to understand the victim mentality card that gets played by those with ties to the Mexican/Hispanic community. They scream "racial profiling" all the time because the bottom line is that they want to protect that ethnic group here illegally from detection or have become so immersed into that ethnic/cultural community that all they see is discrimination and victimhood for them rather than the bottom line. They'll never admit it though and instead they will insinuate that you are a racist for pointing out the truth to shut you up.
You have to understand the victim mentality card that gets played by those with ties to the Mexican/Hispanic community. They scream "racial profiling" all the time because the bottom line is that they want to protect that ethnic group here illegally from detection or have become so immersed into that ethnic/cultural community that all they see is discrimination and victimhood for them rather than the bottom line. They'll never admit it though and instead they will insinuate that you are a racist for pointing out the truth to shut you up.
I know I'm not a racist, which is why I'm not shutting up.
In Texas if anybody working on your property gets hurt, they can go after the property owners insurance company. Justask to see the insurance certificate.
I know that the stimulus money said all workers employed by stimulus funds had to be citizens. If the USA government wants to see the green card, so do I. It is not profiling to vet your employees.
Better be careful though. I needed a 4500 sf house painted, in and out, remove wallpaper, texture,etc. I wanted citizens, so I called the union hall. I paid substantially more than the other bids for the company I hired. Found out that the owner only hired substance abusers who had lost their driver's licenses. He picked them all up for work every morning, and paid them a pittance. I made sure they all knew what I was paying for the job.
I know I'm not a racist, which is why I'm not shutting up.
Maybe everytime someone insinuates that I am a racist I should post a link (and I have them) that proves that most illegals here are Mexicans/Latinos and that many if not most of same ethnic group who are citizens of this country think they should be above our immigration laws and rewarded for breaking them. However, It would just be repetitious of those "facts" being posted many times before so what is the point? Would those "facts" being posted still be considered racist? I think we all know the answer to that one so we can't win. Even though we state that we still want all illegals gone the labels would be still be flying.
I have even stated under this topic that just because an entire work crew is speaking in Spanish it does not make them illegals because the language of choice even for many if not most Hispanics is still Spanish even when they know English but I guess that fell on deaf ears.
Question for those that have responded by their quotes above: You ask for the "Green Card" of a "Spanish-speaker" (that seems to be the primary thing people are identifying above), he shakes his head (maybe in disbelief), and walks away. What are you able to determine from what transpired?
18 or older, required to carry. Possible misdemeanor offense if caught. And let's understand that this whole topic is on the premise of somehow burdening the 18% of Hispanics that are illegal aliens (nevermind any other ethnicity), without a care of how nutty the other 82% will think it is.
IBM if they spoke Russian I would want to see that green card. My land my rules. However the fact is that most illegals who have displaced those in construction at least in my area are hispanic. I won't apologize for putting americans first. If they had green cards the contractor could have done the work. The fact he was unable to produce such documents clears my position as far as I am concerned. When The electrician worked on my house I required him to to be licensed. Was I wrong for this also?
IBM if they spoke Russian I would want to see that green card. My land my rules. However the fact is that most illegals who have displaced those in construction at least in my area are hispanic. I won't apologize for putting americans first. If they had green cards the contractor could have done the work. The fact he was unable to produce such documents clears my position as far as I am concerned. When The electrician worked on my house I required him to to be licensed. Was I wrong for this also?
Agreed, and when was the last time that an entire crew of Russians showed up on a construction site? As I said, an entire crew of Hispanics showing up and all speaking in Spanish does not necessarily indicate that they are illegals and I explained the reason why in another post. However, it a good idea to check out a contractor's credentials and reputation before he even brings a construction crew to your house. It is not out of line to ask an electrician, plumber to show you their license before working on your house and a lot fewer problems will occur with the workmanship also.
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