What do U think about this VA group that is enabling those who hire illegal aliens Attendees paid $160 each?
Last weekend, the Virginia Horticultural Foundation held a workshop geared towards owners of landscape companies entitled “Spanish for the Green Industry.” During the seminar held in Virginia Beach, instructors led their classes in basic Spanish lessons as well as Latin American culture.
VHF education coordinator, Dawn Alleman told the Virginian-Pilot they began offering the course four years ago because the workforce for the landscaping industry is dominated by those who speak only Spanish.
Alleman said: “If you want to be a foreman in those types of places, you’ve got to have a decent grasp of Spanish.”
One of the attendees, Tom Ritter, owner of Ritter Grounds Maintenance in Norfolk, VA, took the class so that he might be able to speak to his workers for the first time in ten years without the help of a translator.
Ritter said: “I just want to be able to communicate with them on a day-to-day basis.”
Course instructor, Yolima Carr, passed out a book she has written to the class which contains English-to-Spanish phrases which might be helpful to landscapers, such as: “Take out the weeds in the flower bed, edge the bed, then blow the leaves and the clippings.”
She reminded the business owners that the ‘immigrants’ working for them are from their homes and families, and that because of their Catholic beliefs, may need certain days off.
Carr, who is the gardens curator at the Hermitage Museum in Norfolk, suggested that the workers be allowed to play Mexican music, and should be complimented on their work (“Hiciste un buen trabajo”).
Attendees paid 0 each for the five hour class.
This is yet one more example of those who fail to see the need to hire U.S. citizens, when an illegal alien will do it for less. That philosophy may go a long way in lining the pockets of unscrupulous employers, but in a time when so many Americans have been laid off, it is just shy of treason.
By the way, the group offering the class, the Virginia Horticultural Foundation, operates as a non-profit and as such enjoys tax-exempt status. The class was given at the Founder’s Inn, Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson’s hotel and resort.
http://www.examiner.com/x-35821-Immigration-Reform-Examiner~y2010m1d30-VA-group-enabling-those-who-hire-illegal-aliens
What do U think about this VA group that is enabling those who hire illegal aliens Attendees paid 0 each for the five hour class? What do U think ?
5 Responses
Jane
09 Apr 2010
Ed
09 Apr 2010
VA my friend is the abbreviation of the Veterans Administration.
I think you meant Va. Like in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
U.S.Veteran
09 Apr 2010
This sort of stuff has been going on for decades, just that it’s swept under the rug during Republican presidencies.
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PD
09 Apr 2010
I say Virginia should look at California and how the illegals Bankrupted us here. In second thought VA should promote illegals to move their their state so maybe we Californians can dig ourselves out of this debt brought on by illegal immigration.
bobby
09 Apr 2010
very stupid move , they will be caught and exposed to the public, there business licenses will be suspended and most likely they will lose there customer base. if for some reason one of these idiots allows an illegal to drive and the turd gets into an accident the employer along with the turd will be arrested and jailed.
they should be taking this into mexico and teaching them there how to work the land. that way they will be doing their own country better. the native americans, blacks and whites here in the united states should be allowed for one day to clean house. we’d do a better job then our pansy govt.