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Avalanche [OP]

2003-03-14 02:52 | User Profile

Clipping of the Day From the Lancaster Daily Eagle, 5 March 1915, page 1:

ANTI-ALIEN LAW BEFORE HIGH COURT

Washington, March 5.---The state of Arizona appealed to the supreme court from the decision of the federal district court, which held unconstitutional the Arizona anti-alien employment law, against which Great Britain and Italy had protested as a violation of treaty rights. The law provided that when any employer had more than five men, 80 per cent of that number must be American citizens. It had been enacted through the initiative.

Catch your breath folks... check the DATE again... {sigh} :blink: Oh, for the good old days...

jeffersonian

2003-03-14 15:04 | User Profile

**Oh, for the good old days... **

Indeed, and remember this article was talking about trying to limit the number of jobs lost to [u]legal immigrants [/u] who were not yet citizens.

Now in AZ you will be hard pressed, on most construction sites, to find a single english speaking person who is in the country legally, much less an American citizen.

Only here to do the jobs Americans don't want? I know any number of people in our "right to work" state who would be happy to be pulling down the 12 to 15 per hour the drywall, framing, and stucco job contractors pay the illegals. But of course American workers tend to unionize, and want medical benefits.

Faust

2003-03-16 03:56 | User Profile

Avalanche and jeffersonian,

Yes I have read about this law before. It sounded like a great law! Not too many years back, you would drive by a construction site and all most everywon working was White. Now all most no whites can be seen working on them, maybe one two white guys with ties waliking around looking over the "Wetbacks."