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Illegal workers found in forest

Full story: Brattleboro Reformer

Five National Forest Service subcontractors were arrested Saturday because they turned out to be undocumented aliens from Mexico.

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john

Bellows Falls, VT

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Sep 21, 2009
 
hire locals this may not happen. only in the us!!!
Mr Johnson

Montpelier, VT

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Sep 21, 2009
 
Arrested? Why? If I understand our New Government Imperative correctly, the proper response should have been to take them to the Town Clerk, give them instant Federal and State citizenship, sign them up for full welfare benefits, full food stamps, full housing allowance, full transportation vouchers, full health insurance and citizenship invitations to all their relatives for five generations.

This would prove that Mr. Obama was telling the truth that he would never extend benefits to illegal immigrants.
Joe

Chester, VT

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Sep 21, 2009
 
Their employer should be arrested and have their assets taken under the RICO laws for running a on going criminal enterprise. Just another case of yuppie sum labor racketeers at work exploiting labor.

Since: May 08

Bellows Falls, VT

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Sep 21, 2009
 
Mr Johnson wrote:
Arrested? Why? If I understand our New Government Imperative correctly, the proper response should have been to take them to the Town Clerk, give them instant Federal and State citizenship, sign them up for full welfare benefits, full food stamps, full housing allowance, full transportation vouchers, full health insurance and citizenship invitations to all their relatives for five generations.
This would prove that Mr. Obama was telling the truth that he would never extend benefits to illegal immigrants.
You mean the New Government Imperative as explained to you by Fox News.
Party of No

Brattleboro, VT

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Sep 21, 2009
 
SHOOT THEM!!! Otherwise there'll be a million of 'em up here soon, living on welfare and putting up signs in spanish! Pretty soon we'll be foreners in our own country!

I WANT MY WHITE COUNTRY BACK!!!
ombuds

Chester, VT

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Sep 21, 2009
 
What on earth were they arrestd for? Camping? Being suspicious? Or because Officer Hebert 'determined' they were Mexican? How did he determine that? Why did he feel he needed to? Not much reporting here, why is a good question to cover after who and what. After learning they were subcontractors why continue the 'investigation'? Another question that bears examination is would Border Control have been contacted had the men been white and possibly, shudder, French Canadian? C'mon Howard you're better than this.
Middle Class Parent

Burlington, VT

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Sep 21, 2009
 
Party of No wrote:
SHOOT THEM!!! Otherwise there'll be a million of 'em up here soon, living on welfare and putting up signs in spanish! Pretty soon we'll be foreners in our own country!
I WANT MY WHITE COUNTRY BACK!!!
When in the history of North America, has this ever been an exclusivly "white" land? You are some kind of idiot.
Prosecute their employers and deport the workers....all in a good days work.
Joe

Chester, VT

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Sep 21, 2009
 
ombuds wrote:
What on earth were they arrestd for? Camping? Being suspicious? Or because Officer Hebert 'determined' they were Mexican? How did he determine that? Why did he feel he needed to? Not much reporting here, why is a good question to cover after who and what. After learning they were subcontractors why continue the 'investigation'? Another question that bears examination is would Border Control have been contacted had the men been white and possibly, shudder, French Canadian? C'mon Howard you're better than this.
They where profiled, it's the way police do their jobs which they are hired to do. They don't watch nursing homes for drug dealers, they watch people more likely to be involved in such a thing.

they don't run radar on deadend dirt roads or DUI check points at 10am in a subdivision, they go where the action is.

Only criminals get annoyed when the police do their jobs, what kind of crime you into, illegal worker labor racketeer ?
jway

Muscle Shoals, AL

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Sep 21, 2009
 
ombuds wrote:
What on earth were they arrestd for? Camping? Being suspicious? Or because Officer Hebert 'determined' they were Mexican? How did he determine that? Why did he feel he needed to? Not much reporting here, why is a good question to cover after who and what. After learning they were subcontractors why continue the 'investigation'? Another question that bears examination is would Border Control have been contacted had the men been white and possibly, shudder, French Canadian? C'mon Howard you're better than this.
what a stupid assessment an question/
jway

Muscle Shoals, AL

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Sep 21, 2009
 
Vermont citizen wrote:
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You mean the New Government Imperative as explained to you by Fox News.
Better than CBS an NBC only asking preprogrammed questions. wake up America/
ombuds

Chester, VT

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Sep 22, 2009
 
Joe, Your examples would also cause me to question the use of police resources, however, suggesting that everyone who questions the police is a criminal is akin to suggesting everyone opposed to open borders is a racist bigot. Also, saying they were profiled is odd as the police were called to the scene for suspicious cutting not for investigating immigrants so you must mean the police racially profiled the workers after seeing them. You sure that isn't criminal?
Joe

Chester, VT

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Sep 22, 2009
 
ombuds wrote:
Joe, Your examples would also cause me to question the use of police resources, however, suggesting that everyone who questions the police is a criminal is akin to suggesting everyone opposed to open borders is a racist bigot. Also, saying they were profiled is odd as the police were called to the scene for suspicious cutting not for investigating immigrants so you must mean the police racially profiled the workers after seeing them. You sure that isn't criminal?
How else do they find illegals unless they racially profile people ? first tip is unable to speak emglish or an accent

what are you one of those upper middle class wealthy people far removed from contract with the police so have no clue they target all sorts of people by looks.

using your logic the people who weigh trucks are profiling truckers and picking on logging & dump trucks by stopping them to weigh them at roadside wide spots and letting those people in those brown UPS trailer trucks slide

It's whiney crybabies like you that turn police departments into unproductive and who cares police departments and than you whine about crime when you get nailed.

ok cop stopped one person fitting this profile so will now stop 10 people not fitting the profile so he/she isn't accused of profiling people or picking on people.

cops did it in weigh stations, not to look like they where picking on truckers by nailing the hell out of everyone they stopped, they made things fair and stopped trucks at random so they wouldn't have anything close to a 100% success rate at removing idiots from the road and or their junk trucks. They wasted most of their shift stopping trucks not likely to have any violations so their kill rate was about 25% instead of profiling the bad ones and having close to a 100% kill rate. Ok UPS pull it over and go threw the motions, no violations, next.

all people whining like you do will end up turning into is cops checking everyone for immigration status to make things fair and wasting time lowering their productively.
Hans

Chester, CT

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Sep 22, 2009
 
So this is where the people with all the answers are!

Funny. I would've thought you people would be out in the real world making a difference instead of posting bold displays of opinions and knowledge under assumed names.

Since: Apr 09

Newfane, VT

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Sep 22, 2009
 
Party of No wrote:
SHOOT THEM!!! Otherwise there'll be a million of 'em up here soon, living on welfare and putting up signs in spanish! Pretty soon we'll be foreners in our own country!
I WANT MY WHITE COUNTRY BACK!!!
I am reluctant to believe that this is a serious post.
Simple Simon

Perkinsville, VT

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Sep 22, 2009
 
osed to Hans who is disparaging informed discussion under an assumed name.
ombuds

Chester, VT

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Sep 22, 2009
 
Oh Joe say it aint so. I don't think I was whining but making the accusation is an interesting tactic, as is your personal attack. But thanks for clarifying you are in support of racial profiling.

Rep. Frank, your dining room table is speaking again.

like Hans is a real name :)
Elmer Fudd

Cambridge, MA

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Sep 22, 2009
 
Ben Long wrote:
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I am reluctant to believe that this is a serious post.
It is GFNB projecting again her caricature again. Occasionally humorous, but rarely accurate.
Joe

Chester, VT

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Sep 22, 2009
 
ombuds wrote:
Oh Joe say it aint so. I don't think I was whining but making the accusation is an interesting tactic, as is your personal attack. But thanks for clarifying you are in support of racial profiling.
Rep. Frank, your dining room table is speaking again.
like Hans is a real name :)
To make it clear, I support profiling people that look hispanic to find the illegals amoung them. Why handcuff the police and make their job harder and have them waste time trying to make it look PC.

Sure there are illegal white & black people, harder to find them when most are legal, so fish where the fishing is good and it's more likely to catch something.

They profile people by age daily, don't see car loads of grey hairs with their hands on the hood while the cops get the drug dog to check out the car.

cops looking to find bad guys go to ghetto areas, not a 55 an older wealthy retirement community, they profile people to do their jobs.
Party of No

Brattleboro, VT

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Sep 23, 2009
 
Party of No wrote:
SHOOT THEM!!! Otherwise there'll be a million of 'em up here soon, living on welfare and putting up signs in spanish! Pretty soon we'll be foreners in our own country!

I WANT MY WHITE COUNTRY BACK!!!
Ben Long wrote:
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I am reluctant to believe that this is a serious post.
Did you somehow miss the town hall scenes about health care reform during the summer??? We older conservative white people were out in force, shouting our point of view over and over again: NO to any change in health care, NO to free care for illegal aliens like these forest Mexicans in Winhall, NO to anything Obama proposes!!! And if you watched those scenes, you must have heard us loud and clear: We want our [white] country back!!!!!!!!
camille

Oak Park, IL

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Sep 23, 2009
 
ombuds wrote:
What on earth were they arrestd for? Camping? Being suspicious? Or because Officer Hebert 'determined' they were Mexican? How did he determine that? Why did he feel he needed to? Not much reporting here, why is a good question to cover after who and what. After learning they were subcontractors why continue the 'investigation'? Another question that bears examination is would Border Control have been contacted had the men been white and possibly, shudder, French Canadian? C'mon Howard you're better than this.
It is illegal to cut down trees in a National Forest without a permit AND you are only allowed to camp in specific areas.
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