On the heels of Congress’ failure to pass an immigration reform bill, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is releasing a get-tough regulation that would force employers to either fire workers whose names and Social Security numbers don’t match or risk a fine of up to $10,000. Corporation and labor advocates both fear it could lead to mass layoffs of… return to article
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Reader Comments (3)Page 1 of 1 pages... the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is releasing a get-tough regulation that would force employers to either fire workers whose names and Social Security numbers don’t match or risk a fine of up to $10,000. Corporation and labor advocates both fear it could lead to mass layoffs of immigrants.
Can we agree that “workers whose names and Social Security numbers don’t match” are suspicious? There are several millions of illegal aliens in this country who invent, buy, or steal fake identification and SSNs. Inventing, buying, or stealing fake identification and SSNs is (1) against the law and (2) easily verifiable. I somehow doubt that native or naturalized citizens have this problem in significant numbers.
Now your basic Progressive does not want to follow the law, at least regarding illegal aliens. But the rule of law, with all its mistakes and inefficiencies, is what distinguishes Western democracies from, for example, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, which is neither democratic, nor does it belong to the people, nor is it a republic.
The Progressives that attempt to subvert the law are quite willing to follow the laws that benefit them, which has created an interesting political situation.
The Civil Rights struggle goes back to Republican President Abraham Lincoln, and to the Abolitionists before. The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s was led by Northern Republicans, including Everett Dirksen who was principally responsible for drafting the Civil Rights Bill. Kennedy and Johnson, over the ferocious opposition of Southern Democrats, joined with the Republicans to pass the Civil Rights legislation.
With exceptional political expediency, the Democrats claimed to own the Civil Rights issue, and backed up that claim with $6 trillion of welfare money, that served primarily to destroy the Black family and social structure in the USA. Now the Black Democratic order is fraying as more Blacks understand that the Democrats have used them, and more Blacks are returning to their Conservative roots in their families and their communities.
Meanwhile, the illegal alien Chicano movement is on the rise. Both the Democrat and the Republican politicians want those Chicano votes to replace Black votes, and the recent “Congress’ failure to pass an immigration reform bill” involved three players: the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the people of the United States.
The Democrats and the Republicans in Congress put together a finely-crafted “Immigration Reform Bill” that pandered to the illegal aliens, pandered to the industries that profit from the illegal aliens, preserved the political status quo for both the Democrats and the Republicans, but ignored the rule of law and the citizens’ sensibilities about illegal aliens and the Constitution of the United States, the basis for the rule of law.
In the Constitutional contest known as the recent “Immigration Reform Bill”, the citizens won and both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party lost. It was particularly gratifying to see Trent Lott and Lindsay Graham (Grahamnesty) first express shock that they could not hoodwink the American public, and then furiously back-peddle in an attempt to placate their constituencies that were implacably hostile to massive and willful violations of American law, by the Congress, no less.
It is not that we lack laws covering this area so that we need a new “Immigration Reform Bill”; illegal aliens have always been illegal, and the Congress passed a law to block the border years ago, and the money is unspent, and the border is unblocked.
What we now see is the Congress reacting to the will of the citizens, which is as it should be. The border is being closed. Fake identification is being terminated. Illegal aliens are being sent home.
So, does Gaus have a real point, or is he just engaging in a bit of Progressive recreational bitching?
Posted by scorp on Aug 16, 2007 at 1:48 PM Oh dear scorp. I can tell you exactly what is happening. Your business leaders just love a labour force that has absolutely no civil rights at all. The fact that this one speaks Spanish matters not one whit. Your pathetic attempt to ‘wedge’ the black working class against spanish speaking immigants is obvious and laughable, even from this distance.
Have you pondered why your southern border, the one with your very own ‘back yard’ is the one that needs guarding against work hungry peasants, and not the one to your north, which sees mainly US citizens fleeing their military obligaioins? Ever wonderd why republicans that have a had a ‘lock’ until recently, on your federal political processes haven’t wanted to ‘patrol’ the border to the South? Ever wondered why politicians from both sidea of what you call a two party system, don’t want to deny business an endless supply of cheap labour?
This situation is one entirely of the US’ own making, and conservatives like you can ‘whistle Dixie’ both literally and metaphorically, if you think any serious politicla player in the US will do anything other than squat to prevent a constant influx of cheap, expendable, and politically powerless labour into every industry that can use them.
You and people like you will probably be able to mount some campaigns against these people, and you probably will be able to ensure that some of them are beaten up and even killed, unfortunately, but if you want to stop what is happening, you will have to do better than blame what you call ‘liberals’. Your siren calls for a campaign of xenophobia and persecution of landless labourers looking for work and money in the US, the place that holds itself out to be the source of both, will do nothing except legitimise violence against poor people. Politicians who need campaing funds from business (and that means 90% of US politicians) will do little to prevent a constant supply of ‘cheap’ labour, whatever the polticians pretend to say.
Who cares?
Anti illegal immigrant laws will never work, because the laws of supply and demand are both so strong in relation to this ‘commodity’ that they will withstand any and every attempt to ‘stop’ the unstoppable. I suspect you know this as well as I do, but you are keen to find another group against whom a jihad can be waged to distract everybody from the rot that is the current US political system.
Posted by Jane Doe on Aug 16, 2007 at 10:40 PM “She says employers commonly use immigration status as a weapon to attack organizing workers in the hospitality sector.”
Como se dice en Español “scab”?
Once the illegals become strong enough they will form their own union and complain about anyone willing to work for less than they have negotiated as fair pay. Isn’t that why she wants to organize in the first place?
This whole story will probably come to nothing anyway. How many times have we been promised action to secure the borders already?
Promises without funding—Foreign controlled ports— Additional Border Patrol staffing—All just smoke and mirrors.
These people should come in legally, organize and charge what the job is worth. When they nail the first employer to the wall — write that story!
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