It's them against US — "them" being Democrats, champions of the 3rd World

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Native born criminals get a free pass so that illegal aliens can skate:

And here’s a good one: this sticker will draw an ICE raid even faster than a “No Guns in This House” sign attracts housebreakers and rapists:

Maine, too has now joined in the rebellion against law enforcement, enacting a law last week prohibiting local police forces to cooperate with ICE or its agents.

Maine’s Democrats have made it clear: they’re on the side of cheap, exploited labor and the companies that hire it; the soon-to-be-replaced American workers must suffer so that new, more docile voters from south of the border can take their place.

A recent sob story from the Bangor Daily News spends its first 22 paragraphs on the terrible injustice being dished out to illegal aliens in the construction industry, before finally getting around to what those people’s willingness to work for poverty wages is doing to Americans; after devoting four paraphs on that, the editors return to the pathos, and pour on another twenty-four paragraphs describing the misery and woe of those who have no right to be here in the first place..

These [illegal] immigrants do one of Maine’s most dangerous jobs. Then came Trump’s crackdown

Roofing has come to rely on immigrant labor even more than the rest of the construction industry, where surveys show that at least a third of workers are foreign-born. A majority of roofers are estimated to be immigrants, many of whom are undocumented, according to a recent  Stateline analysis. 

The danger of the job has structured the industry in a way that has made undocumented labor an attractive option, said Sergio Chavez, a professor at Rice University in Texas who is writing a book about immigrant roofers and has interviewed more than 350 of them. 

[Because they don’t pay for workman’s compensation insurance and threaten to have injured workers deported if try to claim benefits, as the article eventually admits — ED]

But here’s what’s buried deep within the article: the effect this pool of cheap, illegal laborers and the companies that hire them has on legitimate businesses:

The influx of immigrant crews has frustrated others. Shane Felcher, who owns Right Price Home Solutions in Gardiner, prefers to hire employees directly because he wants to employ local tradesmen and do things by the book, he said. He struggles to compete with the larger companies that cut down on their overhead costs by relying on subcontractors, especially those he suspects will work harder and for less because of their immigration status. 

“I get employers complaining that they can’t find employees and I can see how immigration helps that,” he said. “You’re just willing to take advantage of immigrants willing to work cheaper than the locals. That doesn’t seem morally right to me either.”

Low questioned the moral culpability of the undocumented worker who is breaking the law to feed their family versus the comfortable business owner who hires them. In his view, the federal government seems more interested in holding immigrants accountable than the industries that benefit from their labor. A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, did not reply to an inquiry about whether the agency had enforced any worksite violations against Maine roofing employers this year.  

“Why would an industry use large numbers of undocumented workers if it didn’t find a self-interest in doing it?” he said. “That is not only in the wages you pay them, but how much they’ll bend over backward to do exactly what [their bosses] say despite the fact that it is already dark and they’re working by the headlights of their trucks.”

But who will clean our toilets? Pick our cotton?

The shift in the federal government’s crackdown has probably been felt more severely by individual roofers than by the industry at large. But that could change over time. Nationally, blue-collar workers are increasingly caught up in the federal government’s immigration dragnet, sending ripples of anxiety through industries that depend on immigrants. 

In August, a national survey by the Associated General Contractors of America found workforce shortages within the construction industry are the primary driver behind project delays. Nearly a third of firms that participated in the survey reported being affected by intensifying immigration enforcement. 

“That’ll be a problem,” said Chavez, the Texas professor. “You’re going to deport people? What’s their plan to address the labor needs of the industry?”

Someone ought to be gettig pretty goddamned mad by now.