Additionally, why doesn't anyone acknowledge that the taxes these workers pay come nowhere near covering their gov't services, even temporary ones. (At $8,000 to $12,000 a kid for education alone, one worker with three kids adds up to $36,000 in education costs alone.) We the taxpayers are subsidizing these businesses anyway. We might as well do it on the up and up by paying higher prices where applicable.
Maybe I am missing something but this sounds like a rip-off the American taxpayer scheme to me.
More dark thoughts. This is in no way slavery: regular, super-sized, or lite.
Indeed.
Actually I agree with you here. In the current situation there is an underclass of virtually indentured wrokers.
The problem is how to change it.
Aside from all the details, if I knew that President Bush would prosecute employers who hire illegals and would drop those same illegals off nearthe Guatemalan border when found, I would be inclined to support him here.
But and its a big butt, President Reagan has already been down this road and we got the walk softly but they forgot about the big stick.
Another point that the pollyannas are missing here is that although any NEW hires of undocumented illegals will require that the employer prove that Americans don't want the job, the estimated 8 to 12 million existing illegals who are currently illegally employed will be grandfathered in -- no proof will be required that the jobs can't be filled by Americans, per the Bush plan. Rather convenient for employers.
The same document is also rather blunt in stating that this three-year work visa will be renewed, indicating that the three-year term, as well as the "Americans don't want the jobs" stipulation, are window dressing. These will esentially be work visas in perpetuity -- all carrot and no stick.
It's spelled out by adminstration officials in the conference call posting on the White House site, linked in an earlier post.