March 12, 2007, - 12:45 pm
Small City vs. Big Business on Illegal Aliens: Hazleton Needs Your Help
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Today’s the start of an important battle between small city Hazleton, Pennsylvania versus the giant U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
As you saw on a Hazleton, led by Mayor Lou Barletta, is fighting to defend its laws that penalize business that hire or rent to illegal aliens. If big business is really against illegal aliens, they wouldn’t have a problem with the Hazleton laws. If big business was really “checking” prospective workers’ IDs and not hiring those they know to be illegal, the Chamber wouldn’t take on this fight.
But as we all know, big business is all for hiring illegal aliens. They’re not just for amnesty. They’re for their own personally imposed amnesty right now, in violation of the law.
So, the Chamber of Commerce has joined the ACLU in fighting Hazleton, using the absurd claim that the Hazleton ordinance is pre-empted by Federal law. Because we all know how effective The ICE Princess a/k/a Immigration and Customs Enforcement Chieftess Julie L. Myers has been in enforcing federal immigration law.
“We need to bring some stability into the system until we come up with a federal answer,” says Angelo Amador, Chamber director of immigration policy.
“If not, we’re going to end up with 50 state laws and a thousand local ordinances,” Amador adds. “A lot of people are copying what we think is a bad law.”
Huh? So long to local control and local sovereignty, a reason we fought the British to become more than just colonists. I guess the Chamber forgot that “All politics is local.”
And then, the Chamber and the ACLU are claiming the Hazleton ordinance violates due process of businesses. Huh? They have a right to challenge the allegations in court. And they will. They just don’t want to identify themselves in court as illegal alien employers and landlords in order to do so.
Hazleton Mayor Louis Barletta, a former small-business owner, says he never expected to be on the opposite side from the Chamber.
“There’s nowhere in our ordinance that we regulate immigration. We punish businesses that hire illegal workers,” Barletta says. “I would rather stand on the side of the American workers than (with) businesses that break the law.”
Hazleton has been raising money for its legal bills in part by seeking donations on a special website.
As immigration legislation has languished in Congress, dozens of states have passed measures aimed at an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants. Barletta says more than 100 localities are considering imitating Hazleton’s law.
The Hazleton ordinance lets individuals lodge complaints if they suspect a business has an illegal worker. Firms that can’t verify an employee’s status have three days to fix the situation. If they don’t, the city can suspend the operating license. Workers who lose jobs at a business that had illegal immigrants on the payroll, under certain circumstances, can seek damages.
And that, my friends, is why the Chamber doesn’t like this. It will finally hurt them in their pocketbooks.
And Hazleton needs a lot of money to pay legal bills to defend itself and its laws in federal court. The city is raising funds and donations on a special website. I hope you’ll help proud, former small business owner and Mayor Barletta fight the well-funded U.S. Chamber of Commerce and ACLU.
Send checks to:
City of Hazleton Legal Defense Fund
c/o Mayor Lou Barletta
City Hall
40 N. Church St.
Hazleton, PA 18201
Or donate online through “Small Town Defenders”.
*** RELATED: City of New Bedford, Mass. fights raided firm that hired illegals.
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ACLU = America’s Communist Liars Union
The ACLU was founded in the 1920s by Roger Baldwin and Crystal Eastman, described as a “progressive” and “the perfect feminist.”
Earl Browder was general secretary of the Communist Party of the United States from 1930 through its dissolution in 1944. When the party was reconstituted as the Communist Political Association later that year, Browder was chosen as its president. Browder proudly proclaimed that the ACLU functioned as “a transmission belt” for the party. To deny the ACLU’s founding was attached at the hip to communist organizations is to deny what can easily be proven as truth.
For the past few decades, the ACLU has been on a major crusade to destroy Christianity in America, promote filth under “freedom of speech and expression,” and of course, vigorously defend the homosexual culture of death. On Jan. 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong Jr., D-Fla., read a list of 45 communist goals into the Congressional Record. Below are the communist goals being implemented by the ACLU in their quest to destroy America’s culture and traditions:
1. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions, by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
2. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
3. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all form of artistic expression. An American communist cell was told to “eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings,” substituting shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms.
4. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
5. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.
6. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television.
7. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural and healthy.”
8. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a “religious crutch.”
9. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the grounds that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.”
10. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of “the big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the communists took over. Obliterating the American past, with its antecedents in principles of freedom, liberty and private ownership is a major goal of the communists then and now.
11. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture ñ education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
12. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
Anyone who has been following the destructive path of the ACLU can easily see how effective these communist goals have been implemented to “promote democracy” and protect your “civil rights.” Lenin stated: “Communism alone is capable of providing really complete democracy.”
Thee_Bruno on March 12, 2007 at 1:29 pm