Chipotle Mexican Grill fires more than half its employees in Minnesota.

[Hacp]

THAT's why we're at 10% unemployment. The Illegals are taking our jobs. Jobs we won't do? Take away their unemployment. Take away their food stamps. Take away their welfare. Then kick them out in front of Chipotle's and they'll be begging to work for food.

 

[UglyCasanova]

:thumbsup:

Hit the fuckers where it hurts...in the corporate bottom line and put the officers in prison.

Jail time for the illegal hiring of someone to do an otherwise illegal task seems somewhat absurd. If a company gets caught working a minor 8 hours with no break or over the allotted 20 hours a week or whatever it may be they aren't slapped with cuffs and thrown behind bars. There will be some sort of monetary penalty and at worst the business will shut down, but jail time for hiring someone to do a job (not a hitman or prostitute or anything illegal mind you) seems unfair and unjust.

 

[BoomerD]

Jail time for the illegal hiring of someone to do an otherwise illegal task seems somewhat absurd. If a company gets caught working a minor 8 hours with no break or over the allotted 20 hours a week or whatever it may be they aren't slapped with cuffs and thrown behind bars. There will be some sort of monetary penalty and at worst the business will shut down, but jail time for hiring someone to do a job (not a hitman or prostitute or anything illegal mind you) seems unfair and unjust.

They're violating several US laws. If we don't put teeth in the laws and enforce them, why bother to have laws in the first place?

 

[MarkXIX]

What little authenticity in my Chipotle burrito may have existed is now gone. Damnit.

Our local Chipotle appears to employ illegals to run the hot grills in the back, searing and chopping up the meat while sweating profusely. I suspect they get paid in tortilla chips, pinto bean burritos (the meat is what they get as a bonus probably), and Corona if they were real fast that day.

 

[dainthomas]

They're violating several US laws. If we don't put teeth in the laws and enforce them, why bother to have laws in the first place?

Yep. Every law should be punishable with jail time.

Jaywalking? Slammer.
Expired tags? Slammer.
Copy a CD? Slammer.
"Borrow" someone's wifi? Better get some soap-on-a-rope.

🙄

 

[BigFatCow]

They're violating several US laws. If we don't put teeth in the laws and enforce them, why bother to have laws in the first place?

The punishment has to fit the crime. Fine the company, and have yearly audits of their entire working staff for the next 5 years or so. If they are found in violation a second time then have stiffer punishments.

 

[Engineer]

THAT's why we're at 10% unemployment. The Illegals are taking our jobs. Jobs we won't do? Take away their unemployment. Take away their food stamps. Take away their welfare. Then kick them out in front of Chipotle's and they'll be begging to work for food.

LOL...hypocrite.

 

[preslove]

I'm much more in favor of this type of immigration enforcement than directly going after illegals. That doesn't work because if you deport one, two more just come across the border. Take out their employers, though, and you take out the thing that's bringing them in the first place. I think srs $ should be spent on creating a nation wide e-verify system and on audits of companies to see if they're complying.

 

[NL5]

LOL...hypocrite.

Just gotta love the holier than thou types......

 

[UglyCasanova]

LOL...hypocrite.

Haha incredible!

 

[0roo0roo]

fire? they should be throw over the border😛

 

[FelixDeCat]

Hey guys, you'll never guess what happened to me today! I was making burritos @ CMG serving those fat, smelly gringos when all of a sudden the boss tells everyone to come the backroom.....that it was important. We all rush to the back room and he says, "We're are closing early today. And as of now, none of you work here anymore."

I was all like, "wtf?" D:

First we thought it was joke, but the boss wasnt laughing.

He turned the lights off and told us all to GTFO.

 

[MovingTarget]

THAT's why we're at 10% unemployment. The Illegals are taking our jobs. Jobs we won't do? Take away their unemployment. Take away their food stamps. Take away their welfare. Then kick them out in front of Chipotle's and they'll be begging to work for food.

I take issue with the "jobs Americans won't do" argument. If they are willing to attract people from Mexico, then they sure as hell can attract those from the inner cities or rural areas here in the US. There are plenty of people out of work that would gladly take a job making $7.25/hr. Many of them aren't even on unemployment. All you need to do is put an ad in the paper for one position and see how many applications you get...in some places it is truly staggering how many people would line up.

 

[MovingTarget]

I'm much more in favor of this type of immigration enforcement than directly going after illegals. That doesn't work because if you deport one, two more just come across the border. Take out their employers, though, and you take out the thing that's bringing them in the first place. I think srs $ should be spent on creating a nation wide e-verify system and on audits of companies to see if they're complying.

This. As long as those south of the boarder believe that people will hire them, they will come. You have to cut off their source of employment. Treat the cause, and hte symptom will follow. Besides, many employers used to advertise in Mexico for workers to hop the boarder into the US (see: poultry processing, etc.). These corps dont' deserve an ounce of sympathy for betraying our boarder sovreignty.

 

[shortylickens]

Good.
Minnesota gladly accepted way too many illegals while I was growing up. In fact more than once the Star Tribune had articles mapping out the path they took to get up there and what kind of people employed them and kept them safe.
The state and city police never did a god damn thing about it. I like the idea that somebody somewhere is working hard to make them feel unwelcome. One day if I ever go back I'd like to be able to get a shitty minimum wage job as opposed to nothing which is what I got these days.

Of course, I have to acknowledge that if we fire Mexicans up here that just means more jobs shipped south of the border, so I dont think its a net gain at all. Arent most American branded cars made down there now?

 

[NFS4]

I'm much more in favor of this type of immigration enforcement than directly going after illegals. That doesn't work because if you deport one, two more just come across the border. Take out their employers, though, and you take out the thing that's bringing them in the first place. I think srs $ should be spent on creating a nation wide e-verify system and on audits of companies to see if they're complying.

"Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally."

 

[ponyo]

I take issue with the "jobs Americans won't do" argument. If they are willing to attract people from Mexico, then they sure as hell can attract those from the inner cities or rural areas here in the US. There are plenty of people out of work that would gladly take a job making $7.25/hr. Many of them aren't even on unemployment. All you need to do is put an ad in the paper for one position and see how many applications you get...in some places it is truly staggering how many people would line up.

You might get hundreds of unemployed lined up but if you hire them, most will turn out to be terrible workers. They'll give you attitude and work slow. Reliability will be questionable.

Illegals will bust their balls and work their asses off. If you tell them to do something, they'll do it without complaining to your face. They'll show up for work. Most are loyal.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

LOL...hypocrite.

ahahahahahahahahahah...zing!

 

[0roo0roo]

You might get hundreds of unemployed lined up but if you hire them, most will turn out to be terrible workers. They'll give you attitude and work slow. Reliability will be questionable.

Illegals will bust their balls and work their asses off. If you tell them to do something, they'll do it without complaining to your face. They'll show up for work. Most are loyal.

you can always create a race to the bottom, it just means the market has been distorted to fit this inflated supply of workers. if you pay more, you can get better workers. many of those meth towns used to have lower middle class americans working in slaughter yards and such, crappy jobs, but decent paying for what it was. the flood of workers has now driven it down to a level where it creates societal problems and only enriches a few at a cost that isn't acknowledged.

I mean I could get pretty good "bust the balls" work out of african slaves if we still allowed that kinda thing and I were given free reign on exploitative brutality. Doesn't mean it is a good thing to resort to.

 

[BoomerD]

You might get hundreds of unemployed lined up but if you hire them, most will turn out to be terrible workers. They'll give you attitude and work slow. Reliability will be questionable.

Illegals will bust their balls and work their asses off. If you tell them to do something, they'll do it without complaining to your face. They'll show up for work. Most are loyal.

Just what we need...a bunch of disease ridden food service workers...

http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf

"Today, immigrants must demonstrate that they
are free of communicable diseases and drug addiction to qualify for lawful permanent residency green cards. Illegal aliens simply cross our borders medically unexamined, hiding in their bodies any number of communicable diseases.
Many illegals who cross our borders have tuberculosis.
That disease had largely disappeared from America, thanks to excellent hygiene and powerful modern drugs such as isoniazid and rifampin.
TB’s swift, deadly return now is lethal for about 60 percent of those infected because of new Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB).
Until recently MDR-TB was endemic to Mexico. This Mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to at least two major antitubercular drugs. OrdinaryTB usually is cured in six months with four drugs that cost about $2,000. MDR-TB takes 24 months with many expensive drugs that cost around $250,000,with toxic side effects.
Each illegal with MDR-TB coughs and infects 10 to 30 people, who will not show symptoms immediately. Latent disease explodes later.
TB was virtually absent in Virginia until in 2002, when it spiked a 17 percent increase, but Prince William County, just south of Washington, D.C., had a much larger rise of 188 percent.
Public health officials blamed immigrants.
In 2001 the Indiana School of Medicine studied an outbreak of MDR-TB, and traced it to Mexican illegal aliens. The Queens, New York, health department attributed 81 percent of new TB cases in 2001 to immigrants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ascribed 42 percent of all new TB cases to “foreign born” people who have up to eight times higher incidence. Apparently, 66 percent of all TB cases coming to America originate in Mexico, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Virulent TB outbreaks afflicted schoolteachers and children in Michigan, adults and children in Texas, and policemen in Minnesota. Recently TB erupted in Portland, Maine, and Del Rey Beach, Florida."

"Polio was eradicated fromAmerica, but now reappears in illegal immigrants, as do intestinal parasites. Malaria was obliterated, but now is re-emerging inTexas. About 4,000 children under age five annually in America develop fever, red eyes, “strawberry tongue,” and acute inflammation of their coronary arteries and other blood vessels because of the infectious malady called Kawasaki disease. Many suffer heart attacks and sudden death.
Hepatitis A, B, and C, are resurging. Asians number 4 percent of Americans, but account for more than half of Hepatitis B cases. Why inoculate American newborns for Hepatitis B when most infected persons are Asians?"

 

[FoBoT]

go after the employers

 

[lupi]

there's 6 within 15 miles of me but never heard of them before.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

isn't McD owns chiptole?

isn't you not speak english?

 

[ponyo]

Just what we need...a bunch of disease ridden food service workers...

I don't think there's a restaurant without foreign workers. Fast food probably employs the least as they use lot of students. Probably more than half of the kitchen staff in a sit down restaurants are foreign and illegals.

 

[preslove]

"Well, just a second there, professor. We, uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it'll just work itself out naturally."

Heh took me a second to get the ref.

It's more like "Sorry, you're laid off & we have to pay a big fine." And then, "Do you have valid documentation for this job? Sorry we can't give you a job without." Eventually the dude's on a greyhound down to mexico.