http://www.onpointradio.org/2008/07/the-postville-raid On Point is a live, two-hour morning news-analysis program, produced by WBUR 90.9 and NPR. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:51:46 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.onpointradio.org/2008/07/the-postville-raid/comment-page-1#comment-7165 Legal Immigrant Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:06:07 +0000 http://www.onpointradio.org/?p=292#comment-7165 I listened to The Postville Raid show last night. As a hard-working and LEGAL immigrant, I felt insulted by your guests who continuously and intentionally omitted the word ILLEGAL in referring to "immigrant workers." In addition, the entire discussion was misleading the audience by steering away from the root cause of the problem. Well, slavery is illegal, and no one should be treated the way those illegal workers have been treated. However, coming into the US illegally breaks the US law too. Being afraid of deportation, they have to choose not to go public about the inhumane working conditions. It is their conscious decision to suffer from violation of one law (slavery) in order to avoid the penalty of breaking the other (illegal entry). Let’s face it: the illegal workers themselves are part of the cause of the problem. Slavery will continue to exist as far as illegal aliens are able to be hired. Labor exploitation is the ugly twin of employing illegal immigrants. Why doesn’t slavery happen to legal workers? The stem of the problem is that illegal aliens are welcome by certain employers because more work can be done at much lower costs without observing the labor law. It doesn’t help if the real issue is disguised in the fluff of “human rights” and “immigrant rights.” It’s the business ethics that is to be restored and defended by law - jail the employers who hire illegal immigrants and deport the illegal aliens from the US. I listened to The Postville Raid show last night. As a hard-working and LEGAL immigrant, I felt insulted by your guests who continuously and intentionally omitted the word ILLEGAL in referring to “immigrant workers.” In addition, the entire discussion was misleading the audience by steering away from the root cause of the problem. Well, slavery is illegal, and no one should be treated the way those illegal workers have been treated. However, coming into the US illegally breaks the US law too. Being afraid of deportation, they have to choose not to go public about the inhumane working conditions. It is their conscious decision to suffer from violation of one law (slavery) in order to avoid the penalty of breaking the other (illegal entry). Let’s face it: the illegal workers themselves are part of the cause of the problem. Slavery will continue to exist as far as illegal aliens are able to be hired. Labor exploitation is the ugly twin of employing illegal immigrants. Why doesn’t slavery happen to legal workers? The stem of the problem is that illegal aliens are welcome by certain employers because more work can be done at much lower costs without observing the labor law. It doesn’t help if the real issue is disguised in the fluff of “human rights” and “immigrant rights.” It’s the business ethics that is to be restored and defended by law – jail the employers who hire illegal immigrants and deport the illegal aliens from the US.

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