Posted on 07/29/2015 7:30:29 AM PDT by Pelham
A variety of licensed jobs – including architect, barber, boxer and accountant – soon will be open to undocumented immigrants in California.
The shift figures to change lives for tens of thousands of workers, either in the form of new opportunity or, critics say, in the form of a new wave of unfair competition.
Under SB1159, a law signed in September by Gov. Jerry Brown, all 40 licensing boards working under the California Department of Consumer Affairs must consider applicants regardless of their immigration status. Previously, only legal residents with Social Security numbers could be granted licenses.
The new rule is kicking in at various agencies now and will roll out to all licensed jobs by the start of next year. The boards for eight job categories – accountants, architects, barbers and beauticians, boxers and martial arts fighters, financial advisers, geologists, land surveyors, osteopaths and podiatrists – are already accepting undocumented applicants.
It’s unclear how many people have applied for licenses under the new rules, or how many will, but the impact could be huge. The Public Policy Institute of California estimates the state is home to about 1.85 million undocumented workers.
Critics say the new rules benefit people who, in their view, shouldn’t be hired for any job because of their undocumented status.
“It’s yet another tedious way for California politicians to whittle away the rule of law,” said Bob Dane, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington, D.C.-based group that advocates better border security and stopping illegal immigration.
California’s new law, he added, means American workers “are going to face even more stiff competition.”
The new rules figure to change some businesses more than others. Undocumented workers are disproportionally represented in a few industries in California, including farming, restaurant work and transportation. Most aren’t
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And with every incrementalism of legitimacy comes increasing prices for their services and labor. Cheap labor, hard work, valuable services - all from people hiding in the shadows and just taking cash? Good for the liberals, business and CoC RINOs?
All they’re doing with this is increasing the number of entitlement leeches who have new “right” to anything they want.
Sanctuary cities? pshaw... Sanctuary state.
Theres an illegal alien practicing...LAW in california.
thungs couldnt get much stranger or MORE ILLEGAL than that !
Seems nothing is too good for illegals. I’m waiting for the day when Americans are ordered to hand over their houses and bank accounts to illegals. Nothing would surprise me anymore.
We already have been forced to hand over our neighborhoods, our charities and our welfare money to illegals, as you know all too well.
Remember when all LA radio stations used to broadcast in English?
So if I need an architect to develop plans for a new mall, I contact a coyote?
In other words: Americans need not apply!!
The “reconquista” is just around the corner. Can you feel the filth?
What is the benefit of being a US citizen these days, especially one who lives in such a state as Californicata?
Preferential treatment for ever illegal,, including murderers and gangbangers..
a political system that is seriesly in need of a major reroute...
political twits who care more about fundraising and power than doing the right thing.
benefits? FReedom comes with benefits.. and fleas.. big ones..that suck the lifeblood out of all of us slowly.. and in the open.
Kate Steinle was unavailable for comment
When I think of what we used to have here in LA, and how I almost took it for granted...well, it’s just really sad, that’s all.
Many years ago when illegals began to take jobs from family and friends on ranches and farms I said people would only care when the illegals take their job.
“What is the benefit of being a US citizen these days, especially one who lives in such a state as Californicata?”
The advantage is that you get to be a servant for your new Illegal Alien Overlords.
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