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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Everyone that works for me[/b] has a work authorization, a green card or are natural born citizens however they are all brown and will no longer go to DC.

The ice agents can be brutal and with any large organization there are innocent victims of the chaos.  
[b]Everyone who works for me[/b] remembers another employee who was swept up a few years ago when ice arrived to serve a warrant at an apartment, the employee was born at Inova Fairfax, went to Stonewall in Manassas yet was held in detention for two weeks because the arresting agents did not believe or chose not to believe his credentials. He was locked in a nightmare while trying to contact family, or anyone who could get his birth certificate while locked in a chain-link cage in Gainesville. He was eventually let go without so much as a nod or an apology. 
Imagine being removed from your life for three days let alone two weeks, imagine how long it would take to clean up the wreckage, that’s why brown people don’t want to go to DC. Your contractor isn’t playing games his men simply won’t go and I don’t blame them.

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What kind of business? Name of it or website? If roofer, prices per square or sg ft on website?[/quote]

It’s a roofing company, we don’t have a price per square, I don’t know anyone that does. $psf advertising is usually just for carpet and it’s almost always a bait and switch.

The central Americans I’ve worked with for the past 25 years are the absolute salt, their work ethic is near superhuman, done cheerfully and to the absolute best of their ability. Their appreciation and love for family, their drive to rise in the world honestly and their kindness is inspiring and has changed me. I’ve seen them face prejudice and shrug it off over the years but this is different, this hurts them.

Each wave of immigrants to America faces discrimination, Irish, Italians, eastern Europeans all get here and do the job no one else wants; eventually they wind up doing that awful job better than anyone. The second generation follows into that same rough business and starts their own and they rise, by the third generation no one remembers the struggle and you’re just American. 
The workflow through immigration and rising through hard work is being interrupted by people who seem to be embarrassed that they’re being passed by those they deem as inferior. If I’m a white man you’ll just assume I belong here, but I as a second generation grandson of an Irish mason have the luck of skin color to let me past the gate, my brothers from Honduras are being treated unfairly and are finding the gate locked.
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The INA was passed in the 50s. Whether you like it or not, it is the current immigration law. I don't understand why you think people breaking this law should be rewarded for breaking in line over those following the correct procedure, in many cases waiting over 20 years to come here.[/quote]

are you unfamiliar with IRCA of 1986?[/quote]

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