Posted on 02/16/2021 4:54:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Republican senators Mitt Romney and Tom Cotton will introduce legislation aimed at raising the minimum wage while addressing concerns about illegal immigrants taking American jobs.
In tweets posted Tuesday by both Romney (R-Ut.) and Cotton (R-Ark.), the senators revealed their plans to put forward a bill “that would increase the minimum wage while ensuring businesses cannot hire illegal immigrants. We must protect American workers.”
“Congress hasn’t raised the minimum wage in more than a decade, leaving many Americans behind,” Romney tweeted. “Our proposal gradually raises the minimum wage without costing jobs, setting it to increase automatically with inflation, and requires employers to verify the legal status of workers.”
“Today, Americans have to compete against millions of illegal immigrants who take illegally low wages under the table,” Cotton argued in a tweet on his account, “We can fix this by requiring employers to verify the legal status of every worker so they can’t undercut Americans on the black market.”
The increase, according to Cotton, will not go into effect until after the pandemic had ended. It will also include protections for small businesses, something sure to curry favor with Senate Republicans who demanded liability protections be included in any COVID-19 relief package.
“We have an obligation to protect our workers and fellow citizens. This common-sense proposal will give millions of Americans the raise they deserve,” the Arkansas senator closed the thread by noting.
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Oh get real!
These people are becoming legalized you morons!
Once they sign up, they are legal residents, and can hold
any job out there.
Romney is just an evil person.
As for Cotton, good grief. I thought this guy would know
better than to try and pull something like this.
First, Cotton at away from filth. Second, do they think for one moment that democrats care what bills they bring. Lol.
Then amnesty, rendering “illegal” a moot point.
So, illegals can’t work, but they’ll get the full menu of welfare benefits, voter registration, and driver’s licenses. As Yakov Smirnoff used to say, “What a country!”.
Cotton seems to have moved away from MAGA, and is falling into an orbit of Ditch.
Of course he doesn’t even have a Ditch level of FU money so he needs to walk/talk lightly.
That's what the EXISTING e-Verify is supposed to do.
Prevent foreign nationals in our country illegally (a.k.a. illegal aliens) from being employed.
It's not about more laws....it's about ENFORCING the existing laws.
Why E-Verify is failing...
In reality, three groups of people—workers, companies and even the politicians who trumpet it—have come together to ensure that E-Verify remains completely powerless.
Never trust either of these fecal scumbags.
Oh just pass a bill mandating it go up a nickel per year.
So they have a bill to kill jobs, but at least they can pretend they care about American workers by preventing wetbacks from taking the jobs that survive. This is true conservatism.
Problem solved when Biden declares they are no longer illegal.
Yep.i thought it was already illegal to hire illegal aliens.
Are they also proposing to increase it to $15 or another figure? The article doesn’t say, or I’m overlooking it.
“... millions of illegal immigrants who take illegally low wages under the table,” Cotton argued in a tweet on his account, “We can fix this by requiring employers to verify the legal status of every worker so they can’t undercut Americans on the black market.”
Cotton obviously doesn’t understand the meaning of “under the table” nor “black market”.
Wasn’t Romney recently blathering on about the Constitution?
Where in the Constitution does it permit the federal government to stipulate a minimum wage?
I get a kick out of the timing. There is no such thing as an illegal alien.
BiXiden and his puppeteers are working to make GOPeers illegals.
Where in the Constitution does it permit the federal government to stipulate a minimum wage?
Or impeach a former President?
Cotton is owned by China-mart.
Cotton’s mask is off now.
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