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Tony Pugh
WASHINGTON — Carl Calhoun makes mattresses for a living, but lately he’s been enduring more than his share of sleepless nights.
As the president and CEO of the Body Rest Mattress Co. in St. Petersburg, Fla., Calhoun and his wife, Emma, are struggling to keep their 28-year-old company from becoming another casualty of the Great Recession.
They’ve laid off half their employees. They’ve cut the hours and benefits of those who remained. They’ve even tapped their home equity to pump more money into the business.
Yet without a six-digit bank loan to see them through, the Calhouns and their 31 employees face a very uncertain future.
“We know what we’re doing,” Calhoun said. “We just ran out of capital. It’s only through the grace of God that we’re here right now. And I’m not the only one.” Continue reading Despite billions to banks, small businesses struggle for loans
GOOD NEWS
Nicholas Riccardi
The Los Angeles Times
Phoenix — Every time a customer buys some of the large fabric tote bags from the Dollar Store at 43rd Avenue and Thomas Road, Najmuddin Katchi sees another piece of his business vanish.
The purchase of the briefcase-sized shoulder bags means that another one of Katchi’s customers, mostly Latino immigrants, is packing to leave the state before what is touted as the nation’s toughest law against illegal immigrants takes effect July 29.
Katchi’s store isn’t the only business suffering. The vast shopping center that holds his small shop is almost empty. The Food City supermarket closed this spring. Then the furniture shop. Then the pizzeria.
The giant apartment complex across the street, once brimming with tenants, is two-thirds vacant. Katchi is behind on his rent.
‘The business is broken,’ said Katchi, who has operated his shop at this intersection for 14 years. ‘After the 29th of July, what happens? Maybe I have to close the store.’ Continue reading Fleeing Phoenix out of fear of immigration law
Two things jump out as being wrong here. First illegal alien working on a base and then most of them not being held for deportation after being caught.
Dave Gibson
The Examiner
On Wednesday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained 25 illegal aliens who attempted to enter Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, SC. All of the [...]
Washington Watcher
VDARE
Embattled Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is in trouble again in Nevada, this time for clumsily trying to brush off the Pew Hispanic Center’s estimate of the numbers of illegal aliens in the state. (Critics slam Harry Reid’s immigration remark, by Scott Wong, Politico.com, July 14 2010).
Reid has a history of verbal slips. Last year, he suffered the usual two minutes of Politically Correct hate for noting that Barack Obama did not always use a “negro dialect.” Reid was actually praising Obama, but the use of the word “negro” was the kiss of death for the PC Left and for the usual opportunistically unprincipled Republicans.
However, in the early to mid 1990s, Harry Reid did more than make a verbal slip— he advocated what is now an even more timely, but profoundly Politically Incorrect, policy.
In 1993, Reid introduced the Immigration Stabilization Act [S.1351] which cracked down on illegal immigration, greatly reduced legal immigration, and ended birthright citizenship. He reintroduced a slightly watered-down version (e.g. did not deal with Birthright Citizenship and allowed an additional 35,000 legal immigrants) in 1994. [S.1923]
Reid was virtually alone in this fight. He got only three and four cosponsors for the respective bills. Continue reading Will Sharron Angle Use Immigration Patriot Harry Reid (1993) Against Treason Lobby Reid (2010)?
Shern-Min Chow
The KHOU News
Houston — A new website that went live this month, boasts that it is ‘the first public anonymous publishing service for reporting on illegal alien activity in the United States.’
IllegalAlienReport.com is the brainchild of 26-year-old George O’Brien, who has been following the illegal immigration debate with interest.
‘I realized I wouldn’t recognize an illegal [...]
Hopefully Reid will be history!
Scott Wong
The Politico
Immigration reform critics are seizing on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s comments this week that seemed to downplay the number of illegal immigrants working construction jobs in Nevada, even though a recent study found that his home state had the largest percentage of undocumented workers in the country.
When a reporter from KLAS-TV in Las Vegas told Reid a 2009 Pew Hispanic Center report found 17 percent of the nation’s construction workers were undocumented, the Nevada Democrat replied: ‘That may be some place, but it’s not here in Nevada.’
Political opponents have tried to twist Reid’s words, saying he believes there are no illegal workers in Nevada. But Reid spokesman Jim Manley on Wednesday clarified his boss’ comments, saying the majority leader was simply disputing the reporter’s statistic and did not say the state has zero illegal workers. Continue reading Critics slam Reid immigration remark
What a crock of unadulterated horse crap. These families are leaving because they are illegal and Ralph the racist knows it.
Naomi Pescovitz
The KVOA News
Tucson — The director of the New Mexico chapter of The League of United Latin American Citizens, LULAC, claims the new illegal immigration law is causing families to leave Arizona. The national civil [...]
AP
Dallas Morning News
DALLAS — Maria Elvia Ross was a Dallas County jail guard assigned to the sheriff department’s respected quality assurance team, considered an elite unit within the jails. She also, allegedly, is an illegal immigrant.
Now Ross, who resigned Tuesday, faces deportation and Dallas County officials say they [...]
This is what happens when pro illegal immigration politicians write laws. The provide no enforcement or penalties. Thus the law has no teeth. It is as if the law doesn’t exist.
Thomas Burr
The Salt Lake Tribune
Washington, DC — Thousands of Utah companies may be breaking state law by hiring employees without using a federal work status verification [...]
Don Lee and Alejandro Lazo
Los Angeles Times
FOR THE RECORD:
This article incorrectly says the government will report on the May job market Friday. It will report on the June job market.
Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles —
A fresh batch of weak economic news Thursday heightened concerns about the staying power of the fledgling recovery, with more uninspiring news expected Friday when the government reports on the May job market.
The number of pending home sales plunged 30% in May from April, to the lowest level since at least 2001, an industry group reported Thursday, reflecting a larger-than-expected fallout from the expiration of the federal tax credit for home buyers.
Also released Thursday, a closely watched index of factory activity suggested that manufacturing, which has been leading the economic recovery, may be losing momentum. In other reports that were more downbeat than expected, U.S. car sales dropped in June from May’s level, and first-time jobless claims increased last week from the week before. Continue reading Economic rebound may be losing ground, data show
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