No water or power for illegal immigrants

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: Decatur Daily

Decatur Utilities now prohibits illegal immigrants from obtaining electric, gas, water or sewer service, an official said Friday.

Stephen Pirkle, DU business manager and chief financial officer, said DU previously required residents seeking utilities to provide identification, but their immigration status was not relevant.

“We did not document or confirm whether or not they were citizens or aliens here legally,” Pirkle said. “Because of the new law, we are now going through the process to confirm that they are either a citizen or an alien here legally.

“If not, we will deny them service.”



Read more: http://decaturdaily.com/stories/DU-No-water-or-power-for-illegal-immigrants,87348

[alp227]

1. how about shutting down utilities to those who EMPLOYED illegals?

instead of letting people die like Republicans loooooove to do.

[valerief]

17. Bingo! nt

[Cronus Protagonist]

24. I know quite a few homeowners who should go to jail for that then

In fact, every day at the hardware store, I bet the cops could find fifty or more homeowners who hire illegal residents to carry, paint, move, build, tear down, do their gardening, pool service, haul away their old furniture and all kinds of things. These criminal homeowners should have their utilities cut and tried for their crimes?

Sorry, I can't support that, but go ahead and criminalize people for helping the working poor get some cash to put food on their kids, if that floats your boat, and then ask yourself this, "Am I still a progressive?".

[alp227]

25. No, those people took jobs away from AMERICAN CITIZENS

and probably violated labor laws by paying them less than min wage too. I support immigration but support MY COUNTRY'S CITIZENS FIRST.

[Cronus Protagonist]

27. "these people"? Really?

And I don't see legions of American workers hanging outside the hardware store looking for work, any work.

[juajen]

32. Not true. I have two friends that go regularly to get work and

stand there, admittedly, with a majority of latinos, either legal or illegal.

[Cronus Protagonist]

33. Yeh, it is true

You knowledge of two people when I see fifty outside every hardware store in the region doesn't negate my experience.

See my sig line... it's for you.

[slackmaster]

37. They should get FREE water and power. And three free meals per day.

In prison.

[BiggJawn]

2. Alabama, should've known...

Never going there.

[Beartracks]

3. "What did you do at work today, Mommy?"

"I denied electricity to an illegal alien, Timmy!"

"You mean, like from Mars?

"No, from Mexico! Our town is now safe from Pedro running his dishwasher."



So... Utility billing departments are now on the front line of the immigration wars? Next, is Wal-Mart supposed to check immigration status in the checkout line?

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[neverforget]

7. Don't give them any ideas, because with these clowns, they'll do it.

[Blacksheep214]

4. Here comes the plague

I don't think cutting health and sanitation or safety will be in our best interests.

People will still take a dump somewhere.

Just like the Dark Ages all over. People really never learn.

[DBoon]

13. punishing "Illegal" immigrants is more important than public health

the "nanny state" takes care of the general welfare

the "manly state" ensures disobedience is severely punished

[Beartracks]

15. Yep. Here's a pic of the right-wing "manly state" jobs plan.

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[valerief]

18. I know. Teh Stoopid is amazing sometimes, isn't it? They don't even need to be compassionate.

They just need to be intelligent. They can't be either and should be both.

[Blue_Tires]

40. Who cares about public health when you can score cheap political points

with your tea party base??:sarcasm:

[EFerrari]

5. This is a human rights violation and probably at best

a violation of the Civil Rights Act.

[AsahinaKimi]

9. Agree

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: わたしはごまのきらう！

[alp227]

14. I ran this through google translate...Sesame? Huh?

(psst...be glad that police can't pull anyone over on DU because SB 1070 doesn't apply here)

[AsahinaKimi]

19. it means...

"I hate arrogance". (Watashi wa goman o kirau)

[alp227]

20. cool, google translate can be so goofy sometimes nt

[AsahinaKimi]

22. oh yeah..

I know.. I have tried to use it at times with talking to friends, on words I didn't know.. most of it made actual no sense at all..

[DRoseDARs]

6. Amendment VIII ought to put a damper on this, but it won't. n/t

[dipsydoodle]

8. Disgusting

:(

[bloomington-lib]

10. I thought conservatives were all about the free market system.

If someone can pay for utilities, how is it a conservative government can force a business from selling their services to that person.

[Hawkowl]

11. Public safety of everyone now at risk

So, no electricity, no sewage, no water? Then there will be campfires, generators, and defecation in the streets. This will increase the risk of fires, and the spread of disease. They are called public utilities for a reason. Stupid motherfuckers. Every year that goes by, I get more disgusted by the handful of my ignorant, bigoted, countrymen that run this America. :puke:

[Posteritatis]

12. And it will, of course, be followed by "see? Illegal immigrants are a health risk!" (nt)

[amyrose2712]

16. Sick.

[atreides1]

21. Look at the plus side

At least the racist conservatives haven't started building "labor" camps...YET!!!

[kiranon]

23. Soon we will all need solar power and an independent source for water.

These companies should lose their "public" utilities licenses. Time for us to get off the grid and dig a well.

[orbitalman]

26. Totally stoopid is as totally stoopid does. n/t

[pampango]

28. Only in a republican-run state. n/t

[Little Tich]

29. This has to be unconstitutional.

[alp227]

30. even though those immigrants would pay for those services anyway?

Wrong wingers looooove dehumanizing the despised.

[CreekDog]

31. If you accept the denial of water and power to fellow human beings, regardless of their paperwork

you are a heartless douchebag.

(among those harmed by what you would support are children and economic refugees who faced the choice of migrating or starving --or allowing their families to starve).

:rant:

[EFerrari]

34. It's shades of the Warsaw ghetto and a disgrace to this country. nt

[trof]

35. The law makes it illegal to enter into contracts with 'illegals'.

Says such 'contracts' will be considered null and void in Alabama courts.

It's not so much vindictiveness as it is corporations and utilities CYA.

Still sux.

[ehrnst]

36. Next up: Denying them medical care. (nt)

[KamaAina]

38. Can we please get them to stop calling themselves DU?

:shrug:

[KamaAina]

39. I would imagine that this utility gets all or most of its power from the TVA

which should threaten to triple their rates or something if they continue this un-American behavior.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

41. Bring us your tired, your poor . . . . my ass.

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