Apparently the Obama administration can raid firms and check on the legality of their employees but everyone else must pretend that there are no illegal Hispanic employees.
"Commissioners in central Nevada's Nye County have voted unanimously to reprimand the county assessor, after she sent emails to the sheriff questioning the citizenship of workers building a new county jail.
Assessor Shirley Matson asked for an investigation of the workers' citizenship or work visa status in a March 11 email to Sheriff Tony DeMeo, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
She wrote that her staff and the public "can plainly see that the construction employees are all Mexican/Latino non-English speaking and I'm getting complaints."
That email was among many between Matson and the sheriff, sent after Matson was elected to a four-year term in November. The sheriff told Matson her remarks were blatantly racist and her request was unconstitutional.
County commissioners agreed in a special meeting Friday that Matson violated the county's personal conduct policy. But they determined they could do little more than issue a public reprimand because she's an elected official.
Commissioner Dan Schinhofen said Matson's apparent viewpoint is: "They look Hispanic, so they must be illegal. Do you see where that could be seen as a bigoted statement? It's bigoted to me."
Matson told commissioners it never dawned on her that her statements might be construed as racially insensitive. She said her email to DeMeo had nothing to do with the issue of illegal immigrants, but was an attempt to protect the county. She recounted working for a San Diego construction company that was fined millions of dollars for hiring illegal immigrants.
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I can't believe it, political correctness has invaded Nevada, my favorite cowboy state.
EXAMPLES OF SHARIAH LAW IN AMERICA.
http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/03/sharia-law-explodes-in-america.html
"The founders of the United States were aware of the failings of mankind and as a result tried to establish a government structure which mitigated those traits. That structure is still in place, but are there national leaders willing to risk their ambitions in order to tell their constituents the awful truth? That the future of the United States is dependent not only upon immediate changes in fiscal policy, but more importantly the people and their leaders must re-constitute American society wherein honor, integrity, self-reliance, restraint, and respect for one's neighbor are paramount. These attributes will also ultimately solve the nation's long-term financial woes and insure the future. Unless the country does so, it will inevitably join the likes of Rome and other nations on the ash heap of history." -- Steve McCann
Apparently, when Ms. Matson was elected, someone forgot to tell her that in no way was she to even think about wanting the laws of Nevada and the US enforced. How dare she not understand this? Did she actually think her job was to stand up for the weak, mindless fools who elected her? LOL!!
Nevada. Isn't that where foolish people re-elected Harry Reid to the US. Senate ?
Hey, their status should have been checked when they were hired - period. Just because the workers are little, brown, spanish-speaking people, it doesn't mean that they are illegal immigrants.
I can see businesses hiring illegals to try and save money, but why would the government do that? They have an unlimited stream of revenue, and they wouldn't want to piss off their union masters.
-L
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