Anyone who doesn't go to work on May 1st should get fired and replaced by a US Citizen, agreed?
344048
pretty sure that pull my tongue at you doesn't make any sense but whatever floats ur boat\ni totally agree\nit's so not fair that they are using our schools for their kids and our hospitals and not paying taxes.  they also get food stamps and such\nnot that i think we should just let them become us citizens that's also unfair because therre are a lot more people around the world who have a lot better reasons to come to the us  and have a really hard time getting a visa\nHowever it's really hard to get rid of the illegal immigrants especially the mexicans seeing as they are right next the us. but them not working...is fine with me...why don't they leave our country while their at it.\nthey are trying to prove a point saying that we really need them...but if they have such an issue with our country why don't they just go back to theirs?\nthey need to realize that them working here for a lower wage actaully can hurt some people who are looking for those jobs.  So good for them...plus them doing this where they just don't go to worok isn't going to make the us want to help them more...its just going to opiss them off\njeez
799671
so lets raise min wage and allow illegal immigrants.  who do you thank will be fired and who will be then hired.  how much money will that take out of the min wage workers hands?  all maybe?
418649
I completely agree with you. I am married to a U.S citizen and  am trying to go though the immigration system legally myself. I have been here for 9 months and I cannot work or drive or leave the country. My husband is working 16 hours a day to try to pay the immigration costs and for us just to survive. I know that we still have years of this sort of thing to go though. So why should the people that came here illegally be given the right to stay. I have no rights here. It's just a slap in the face to everyone trying to do things the right way.
252000
unfortunaley, no one. u gotta work a little over time
685786
I would hope that they would do what is right, deport all of them that is possible and arrest and put in jail anybody that hires them without proper paperwork. Fine the company's enough so that it is not worth it to them to break the law and pay substandard wages.
198091
if you want to get fired you still have to show up to work. By not showing up that is job abandonment. I would just don't try that hard and i guess just be a slacker.
1066935
If you were hired because you told them you were available for certain times, and , later, change your availability, you can not only be demoted, but could be laid off.  Just because someone else is getting days off that you would prefer does not mean this is not fair.  Perhaps they were hired under these hours of availability.  You may have been hired because they needed someone who was available for the days and/or hours you originally told them you would work.
785769
I am with you - Wednesday all the way.  What a great work week if we could have wednesday off too!\n\nPeace!
402033
Way to go!  Congrats to the friend who got the new job as well!  If the illegals went home, business would be forced to pay a better wage and would entice US citizens to work!
587574
It would be proper to give notice so they can fill that spot of yours that is going to be there 22 hours less than what it has been. Whether you are there or not the job still has to be done and they need to be able to replace you with someone who can be there during those times
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Gettin FIRED From Work...\nYeah... Sounds GRATEful\nGO FOR IT\n\nI SUPPORT BOYCOTT MAY 1st\n\nALL 15 Million Illegals Go To Boycott\nAll 300 Million Citizens Go About Our Business As Usual\n \nThere Is No Point \nBut YEAH Go Ahead And Boycott All You Want
693188
There are many parts to this bill:  Here is a recap so far, and nothing but nothing is final.  No I certainly do not think employers should be penalized by the way.  We are only required to get a green card from them, not make sure that they are real or fake documents.  We are not the INS.\nThe Senate continues consideration of amendments to the comprehensive immigration reform bill.  Here is a summary of amendments considered since the last update of May 17.  \n\nMore amendments from May 17\n\nSenator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) offered an amendment (for Senator Ted Stevens (R) of Alaska) that would delay until June 1, 2009 the deadline by which persons traveling between the U.S. and Canada or Mexico would be required to carry a passport or other similar secure document.  That amendment was accepted by voice vote.\n\nAmendment: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SP4018:/\n\n\nSenator Rick Santorum (R-PA) offered an amendment that would include Poland in the Visa Waiver program (in which travelers from certain countries (mainly in Europe) do not have to apply for a visa to travel for short periods to the U.S.  That amendment was accepted by voice vote.\n\nAmendment: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SP4000:/\n\n\nSenator John Cornyn (R-TX) offered an amendment that would delete the ability of immigrants coming to the U.S. in a temporary worker program to petition for a green card on their own after four years.  This amendment narrowly passed by a vote of 50 to 48.  (However, this amendment was mostly overturned by a subsequent amendment, see below.)\n\nAmendment: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SP3965:/\n\nVote: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00128\n\n\n \n\nAmendments from May 18\n\nSenator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) offered an amendment that mostly rolled back the Cornyn amendment passed on May 17.  The amendment restores the ability of immigrants coming to the U.S. in the temporary worker program to petition for a green card after four years, but the Department of Labor would have to certify that there is no available U.S. worker to perform the job.\n\nThat amendment passed 56 to 43.\n\nAmendment: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SP4065:/\n\nVote: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00129\n\n\nSenator John Ensign (R-NV) offered an amendment that would bar undocumented immigrants who become legalized from receiving Social Security benefits for which they have paid through payroll taxes during the time they were undocumented.  There was a motion to table that amendment, which was agreed to by a vote of 50 to 49.\n\nAmendment: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SP03985:/\n\nVote on Motion to Table: \n\nhttp://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00130\n\n\nSenator Daniel Akaka (D-HI) offered an amendment that would exempt the unmarried and married sons and daughters of naturalized Filipino World War II veterans from the numerical limitations on family-based immigration.  This amendment was accepted by voice vote.\n\nAmendment: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SP4029:/\n\n\nAn amendment by Senator David Vitter (R-LA) would tighten somewhat the requirements for documenting eligibility for the legalization program.  This amendment was approved by voice vote.\n\nAmendment: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SP3964:/\n\n\nSenator James Inhofe (R-OK) offered an amendment that would make English the “national language” of the U.S.  The amendment states that, unless specifically required by law, no person has a “right” to have government services or materials provided in a language other than English.  \n\n\nAdditionally, the Inhofe amendment strikes the option that an undocumented immigrant who is applying for legalization, or a participant in the temporary wor
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You should call your Federal, State & local politicians and let them know that if they can't do their jobs.  Americans will vote them out of office and put someone in their place that can to the job!\n\nAs for your neighbor next door.  Change your locks so his anchor babies can't get in.  Give them a rude awakening that the FREE RIDES are over and that they'll be going on a deportation vacation.
599075
I think it is because customer service oriented jobs are being performed by the couch potato generation.  They think they are doing us a favor by being there.  Labor laws protect the employee but not the employer.  It is hard to weed out the individuals that are lazy.  It's not like the days when somebody could be fired on the spot.  Now there is so much red tape to terminate somebody.  I feel your pain though.  I have a hard time having to bag my own groceries after putting in a ten hour day!  I voice my opinion by making a copy of my receipt and mailing it to the business owner or manager with my complaint.  This way; they know exactly who the individual was, what time and date the incident occurred, and what my issues were.  Most of the time I get a letter explaining that the problem is being addressed.  Sometimes, the individual puts two and two together and is much more pleasant to me the next time I pay the place of business a visit.
681858
I feel like it's a slap in the face to every person who has immigrated here legally. What really frosts me is that this is also an amnesty for the employers who have enjoyed the unfair competitive advantage of hiring illegals over the past years. How can an honest business person stay in business when your competitor's payroll expenses are 50% less than yours?
660852
It can't be illegal to fire them when it's illegal to hire them. I totally agree with you, wow, I don't think I've ever agreed with an old Leftist from the 60's LOL, but they're going to end up dragging everyone's wages down if a general amnesty is given.
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It would be a taste of our own medicine.\n\nThe American citizens of course would start working the works illegals used to do, and not the legal residents because lots of them have College and Post graduate studies, they will keep doing better paying jobs, among with a minority of American citizens.\n\nTherefore, all school drop-outs, and citizens without much education will be doing the work of illegals, BUT FOR HOW LONG?  a week?  a month? \n\nThen, people will stop working or demanding better pay,  and employers will not be able to afford the new ALL-AMERICAN-WORKFORCE.\n\nAll the suddden: SURPRISE!! Higher income people can't find produce at the grocery store! Non-perishable food is getting scarce, factories are closing!\nWell, what do we do... lets go to the restaurant! OH No! the restaurat is closed, there is another one open across the street, but they have only one choice and a waiting time of 4 hours.... \n\nEmployers and Factories send the whole production plant overseas to cut on costs.... OH, Noo!\n\nOH! What do we do now?  \nIf Illegal Aliens are kicked out, the USA will be slowing down in production and stocks, sooner than we think the Country would STOP and it would be Americans going to Mexico or to other Countries.\n\nThen what? it will be Dear American Family, please fill this application for visa and wait 5 years before you can come into my country, thank you for your patience.