Senator Helps Mexicans Take Americans’ Jobs
The chief of staff that Florida’s governor appointed as U.S. Senator heads a law firm embroiled in several scandals, including securing visas for Mexican construction workers by persuading the State Department that the foreigners had special skills that Americans didn't.
Florida’s newly appointed U.S. Senator, George LeMieux, hasn’t even been sworn in and already multiple allegations of cronyism have infested his meteoric political rise in the Sunshine State. The 40-year-old largely unknown lawyer gained notoriety when Republican Governor Charlie Crist picked him to replace Mel Martinez, who retired before completing his term.
LeMieux was Crist’s chief of staff and he’s also the chairman of a Florida-based law firm that specializes in helping companies hire foreigners—who work for less money—replace American workers inside the U.S. An investigative reporter for a south Florida television station revealed that the new senator’s firm secured dozens of visas for Mexicans to help construct a hotel and condominiums in an upscale beach neighborhood known as Bal Harbour.
As a result American sheet metal workers were left out of a job at a time of rising unemployment that included more than 2,000 sheet metal workers in south Florida. ...
More at: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2009/sep/senator-helps-mex...
If those workers are union workers
Then that'll tell you something about how this all started
'Undocumented' labor is not the problem, it's the market trying to correct a problem.
'Live for yourself, there's no one else more worth living for,
Begging hands and bleeding hearts
Will only cry out for more...'
'Live for yourself, there's no one else more worth living for,
Begging hands and bleeding hearts
Will only cry out for more...'
Yeah
The problem is that no one wants to work. I'm one of the few hard working white boys out there. I'll work beside a Mexican any day, so long as he will work. I wish I had a few working for my dad. Pretty much everyone we hire shows up late, if at all, and has a drinking and/or a drug problem, and is lazy.