No Match? No Mas!

The Department of Homeland Security is trying to force employers to either fire workers whose names and Social Security numbers don't match. Widespread job loss often results when the government dons its immigration-enforcement blinders

By Mischa Gaus

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 [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    <blockquote> ... 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

    United States Posted by scorp on Aug 16, 2007 at 12:48 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.

    Australia Posted by Jane Doe on Aug 16, 2007 at 9:40 PM
    United States Posted by whattheheck on Aug 18, 2007 at 12:49 PM
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