Posted on 11/20/2014 3:52:12 PM PST by mdittmar
Today is an important step toward rational and humane enforcement of immigration law. On behalf of America’s workers, we applaud the Administration’s willingness to act. We have been calling upon the White House to halt unnecessary deportations since Spring 2013 because our broken immigration system is an invitation for employer manipulation and abuse, and U.S.-born workers as well as immigrant workers are paying the price.
By extending relief and work authorization to an estimated 4 million people, the Obama Administration will help prevent unscrupulous employers from using unprotected workers to drive down wages and conditions for all workers in our country. Although this fix will be temporary, it will allow millions of people to live and work without fear, and afford them the status to assert their rights on the job.
The Administration is operating within its authority to advance the moral and economic interests of our country, and while we stand ready to defend this program, we must also be clear that it is only a first step. Unfortunately, more than half of those who currently lack legal protections will remain vulnerable to wage theft, retaliation, and other forms of exploitation.
In addition, we are concerned by the President’s concession to corporate demands for even greater access to temporary visas that will allow the continued suppression of wages in the tech sector. We will actively engage in the rulemaking process to ensure that new workers will be hired based on real labor market need and afforded full rights and protections.
But this announcement does move us forward – progress that is attributable to the courage and determination of immigrants who rallied, petitioned, fasted and blocked streets to make it happen. Implementation of the executive action should begin immediately, before further delays open the door for legislative obstruction. Starting tomorrow, the administration should focus enforcement attention on high level targets, stop the community raids and leave workers, grandmothers, and schoolchildren in peace.
Going forward, we renew our call for comprehensive reform that provides a path to citizenship and real protections for workers. We will continue to stand with all workers, regardless of status, to ensure that their voices are heard and their rights are protected. Working together, we know that we will ultimately achieve a more just immigration system that promotes shared prosperity and respects the dignity of all workers.
Be nice to put this corrupt communist MF criminal behind bars where he belongs.
The marxists won’t control DOJ forever, and he should be number one on the target list.
Lets see, dumb uneducated people, easy to fool into doing things like handing over a bunch of money to union bosses. Funding retirement of old unions hands A huge influx of new young and dumb unionista’s.
What’s not to like for an old union guy? The next generation of workers be damned, they can find their own people to fund their outrageous retirement packages.
No, it’s not a revelation to me. However, you’d think the rank-and-file would toss the bums out.
Mr. Trumka,
I think your family came here legally?
I worked in a Union grocery store. So,e of the dumbest and laziest people Imever met. Was offere a manager/supervisor job. I refused. I saw no point in trying to mange people who you Could not dicipline in any way.
One instance inremember involvd a CW getting suspend for violating a policy they signed. They got back pay after they they claimed they forgot they signed it.
Bingo. He thinks he will get more union dues. not sure how much.
“...because our broken immigration system ...”
There is nothing broken about the immigration system. The Progressives don’t like it so they claim it is “broken” and needs to be fixed to fulfill their desires. Note how the health care system was claimed to be “broken” so they could fix it with CommieCare. Note that they claim that any system that doesn’t meet their personal desires is “broken”.
1. Unlimited use of such power? Does President Obama, and any future president, have unlimited use of executive orders?
2. For instance, can President Obama legally sign another executive order in, say, six months, where he again legalizes another 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 illegals, and nobody can do anything about it?
3. Doe it also mean that President Obama, in anther year November 2015, sign again another executive order legalizing other illegals, or bring in 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 people from, say, war-torn Iraq and Syria?
4. My point is this: Does all this executive order mess concerning immigration have an "enough is enough" stopping point, or will Obama and future presidents have the legal right to use executive orders to bring non-citizens into the United States as long and as often as they want?
5.God help us if Obama can legally sign immigration executive orders as often as he wants these last two years of his term, because he claims and makes the excuse that Congress is not doing its job when it come to immigration reform.
I just looked at a a home built by the Union Boss of the carpenter’s Union in 1984. It is a falling down, moldy, poorly built, leaky mess. Dude is Dead but the one thing they kept to sell This Disaster was a book written by Trumpka.
I thought it very telling… beautiful piece of property built by intensely inadequate people.
It, and they disgust me.
I forgot to add.
A man stopped a cop and said “I think there is a dead man over there” pointing.
The cop looked and said “ he’s not dead he just works for the AFL-CIO”.
This wasn’t always the case. There was a time when union membership did in fact save lives and provided safer working conditions for it’s members. But always a price for the Union.
Times have changed and the I want mine and to you know what to you.
The pendulum swings and still no balance.
We are having economic fallout and we will reep the whirlwind.
Lack of teaching the actual history without bias, for your own (not directed at you, it’s a generalization) greed, has destroyed many things throughout history,and generational ignorance and greed keep us at a point we should have gotten beyond before I was born.
Wonder when he was last in Greene County--they'd lynch that benedict Arnold.
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