Freedom Folks: Santa Cruz: Gleefully Sinking into the Illegal Immigration Cesspool

The city of Santa Cruz, which often takes controversial approaches to social issues, has now established what is believed to be the nation's first hotline for day laborers -- most of whom are undocumented -- to report unscrupulous employers.

The creation of the hotline, announced Monday, swiftly drew complaints from activists who said government should not offer such protections to illegal immigrants. ``The number of illegal immigrants is exploding, and this will only encourage more to come,'' said Yeh Ling-Ling, executive director of the Oakland-based Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America.

But police officials, citing reports that employers regularly abuse day laborers, said everyone deserves the protection of the law.

THE LAW? As in THE LAW that ILLEGAL aliens broke to come here? As in THE LAW that ILLEGAL aliens break to stay here? As in THE LAW that ILLEGAL aliens break to work here? THAT LAW?

It's all here.

Several day laborers waiting for work in front of Santa Cruz's San Lorenzo Lumber on Monday afternoon said they liked the idea of an anonymous hotline to report employers who try to cheat them.

I just bet they do. How about a hotline for citizens to report ILLEGAL aliens who are cheating them...cheating them out of jobs, cheating them out of decent wages, cheating them out of benefits paid for by hard-earned tax dollars?

Gabriel Martinez, 45, of Watsonville, said he depends on the income from the casual labor market to supplement seasonal work in the strawberry fields. But he's always wary of potential employers -- particularly after he got cheated out of a day's pay by someone who hired him to deliver advertising circulars.

After that experience, he said, he started copying down the license plates of employers. He said he'd have no reluctance contacting the police hotline, even though he is an undocumented immigrant.

Why would he? It sounds like the only crime you have to worry about commiting in Santa Cruz is one against an ILLEGAL alien. Go ahead -- rape a law-abiding woman, rob a citizen's home, molest an innocent child -- but don't you dare mess with someone who spits on THE LAW with their very presence in this country!

But the workers interviewed Monday said that besides being chased off private property at the request of San Lorenzo Lumber's owners, they had no problems with the way they were treated by Santa Cruz police.

Those mean police! How dare they do their jobs?

"I'll report the people who don't pay," Martinez said in Spanish. "I have no problem with that."

But the police -- and Santa Cruz officials -- had better watch out. I have a sneaking suspicion that their jobs will be considered fair game for ILLEGAL aliens in the not-so-distant future, if we don't fix this problem pronto.

Porque su trabajo es próximo, mi amigo.

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