Posted on 07/01/2010 4:18:50 PM PDT by Qbert
Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis recently released a taxpayer funded bilingual public service announcement (click here to watch) advertising a hotline established for workers, documented and “undocumented,” to call in to if they believe they are not being “fairly” compensated.
At a time when the nation is facing double digit unemployment in many places, including in my home state of California, the Obama administration has once again demonstrated how misplaced its priorities truly are. Using taxpayer dollars to reassure illegal alien workers that they too have a right to be paid “fairly” for the illegal work they have performed is an affront to hard working American citizens and legal immigrants who are struggling to make ends meet in these harsh economic times.
Rooting out worker exploitation is a laudable goal and the Department of Labor should pursue worker complaints. However, the first obligation and duty of a responsible government is to its citizens. If the administration truly wants to improve the plight of American workers as a whole, it must first strictly enforce our immigration laws by ensuring all workers are legal workers.
The administration cannot continue to shirk it responsibilities by turning a blind eye to lawbreakers in order to pacify a political demographic that the party in power believes it needs at the ballot box.
This type of selective enforcement not only continues to force American workers to compete against the influx of cheap illegal labor bidding down wages but it further undermines the administration’s credibility on true immigration reform.
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We can not consider making foreign workers legal when there are so many American citizens out of work.
This problem became more difficult when we accepted Baraq’s claims of citizenship.
“About time somebody said it. I’ve been saying for days that the republicans need to come out hard and fast with:
We can not consider making foreign workers legal when there are so many American citizens out of work.”
Yep. And we can’t add 25 million more people to an already overly costly Obamacare program and not expect even more health care rationing.
My husband and I run our own business, and I cannot count the times we have foregone our paychecks in order to pay our employees. I don’t think that’s fair.
My taxes are too high; my utilities are too high; the prices of our materials are too high. I think that our employees, utility company, vendors; and taxing authorities should all accept a skipped payment on a rotating basis, just like we do! s/off
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