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Posted on 06/07/2005 5:51:41 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
U.S. officials promote programs for Mexican immigrants
Knight Ridder Newspapers
SAN JOSE, Calif. - (KRT) - U.S. government officials convened Monday in San Francisco to promote programs, services and benefits available to Mexican immigrants in this country, including those who are undocumented, under a binational effort aimed at protecting workers' rights and improving the health of families.
The officials from the Department of Labor and Department of Agriculture spoke to dozens of representatives of Mexican consulates from throughout the Western United States in a daylong training seminar aimed at jointly promoting immigrant rights.
"We are interested in making sure that all eligible people participate in our programs because we think our programs are very worthwhile," said Allen Ng, a regional administrator with the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, which provides meals to children in school, among other programs. "This partnership with the Mexican consulate is just another avenue for outreach."
A regional administrator for the Labor Department, George Friday, told of how his agency's Wage and Hour Division recouped more than $3 million for 17,000-plus workers in the past year who were owed paychecks from employers.
The government's participation, though, drew criticism from an anti illegal-immigration advocate who noted a paradox - somehow the undocumented can work in the United States, usually through false or misleading documentation, yet their rights are protected.
"This is another indication that the federal government has absolutely no intention to curb illegal immigration," said Yeh Ling-Ling, executive director of Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America, an Oakland group that wants less immigration. "Americans should be outraged."
While the government representatives seemed careful to not publicly emphasize how illegal immigrants can benefit under federal laws, the consuls and a top official from Mexico's Foreign Ministry in interviews spoke openly about how the undocumented often don't complain about working conditions for fear their employer will have them deported.
"They have to understand that it doesn't matter if they're here undocumented; they have labor rights and cannot be subject to slavery conditions or exploitation," said Juan Bosco Mart, the Foreign Ministry's general director for North American Affairs.
"Most of them don't know about these programs, so we want to do outreach to them," he said.
There are an estimated 10 million Mexican immigrants living in the United States, about half of them illegally, Bosco Mart said, citing Mexican statistics. In addition, about 300,000 Mexicans are believed to migrate annually to work in the United States to meet labor demands, according to Bosco Mart.
A highlight of the seminar was the information provided by Labor Department representatives who explained federal law that states all workers must be paid at least minimum wage. "We are charged with making sure people get paid for their wages," Friday said.
Another emphasis was on the programs provided by the Agriculture Department, such as food stamps, health brochures on diabetes printed in Spanish, and the WIC program, which provides nutrition services to women, infants and children. Not all the department's programs, though, are offered to illegal immigrants.
Officials of both countries said the partnership benefits the United States and Mexico in ways that each nation couldn't achieve independently.
Undocumented workers will be more comfortable reporting workplace abuse to the Labor Department if encouraged by Mexican consular officials. Mexican immigrants and their families who learn to live a healthier lifestyle can reduce the cost of health-care and hospitalization, the officials said.
"It's an investment," said Alfonso de Mara y Campos, the general consul in San Francisco whose office assists Mexicans from San Mateo County to extreme Northern California.
"It's a win-win situation," he said.
And where are the "rights" of Americans to be free from foreign invasion?
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"They have to understand that it doesn't matter if they're here undocumented; they have labor rights and cannot be subject to slavery conditions or exploitation," said Juan Bosco Mart, the Foreign Ministry's general director for North American Affairs.
"Most of them don't know about these programs, so we want to do outreach to them," he said.
(Let alone eliminating it. Come to think of it, THIS IS NO LONGER YOUR GOVERNMENT - IT BELONGS TO MEXICO.)
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"This is another indication that the federal government has absolutely no intention to curb illegal immigration," said Yeh Ling-Ling, executive director of Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America, an Oakland group that wants less immigration. "Americans should be outraged."
Please tell me this is a joke or a parody or something. We are truly a nation governed by traitors and fools.
"It's a win-win situation," he said.
Could somebody please explain to me why I don't feel like this was a win situation? Somehow I have this suspicion that, along with the rest of the taxpayers, I just got shafted again.
Our "social service- welfare workers" get money and assignments on a "case load" basis. More people served results in more cases, therefore, more money and staffing needed.
Looks like the goal is to increase these by "serving" law breakers at the expense of working, tax-paying, law abiding
citizens. That just doesn't seem right.
This is as serious as a heart attack on a dying AIDS patient (the United States of America in this case) . .
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Maybe we should start sending irate letters to our representatives......
coated in Vaseline.
Why on earth do any of us bother playing by the rules anymore? Seriously, why do I bother getting up at 5:30 every morning, working all day, paying over $420 a month for health insurance, buying all my own food, paying for everything myself, no hand outs, etc?
What's the flippin' point?
Have to make sure that everyone knows about this. I mean everyone you know. We need to get the phones at the White House ringing off the hook. Enough already. When the American people get wise to this........
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'It's an investment'. It's a done deal. We were sold down the river.
Including those who are "undocumented?" Puhleeeze. ......These taxpayer freebees are designed for illegal aliens from Mexico, and one of the primary reasons those people (whose loyalty resides 100% with Mexico) risk their lives to come up here by the millions. Take away their freebees and much of their incentive for coming is gone.
But it appears our elected officials are dead-set on turning America into a nation of third-worlders completely dependent on gov't handouts/services, and on wiping out the middle class.
They are just giving away our tax dollars for feel good social programs.Visualize a healthy buffalo falling into a pond full of leeches. The buffalo thinks it is ok to stay in the water. The leeches swarm and attach, slowly draining every drop of blood from the poor buffalo before it dies.The is a metaphorically example of whar these illegals are doing to America. A few politicians care, but most ccould care less for they are insulated from the crime&economic burden of this onslaught. Troops on the border, erect a wall like Israel and turn back the tides.NSNR
Giving away your country one illegal alien at a time . .
The Supreme Court has already ruled on the issue of labor rights and illegal aliens. Here is the link to an analysis
http://www.twmlaw.com/site/resources/backpay.html
"Why on earth do any of us bother playing by the rules anymore?"
I don't know the answer to that question - one I ask myself quite often. I don't know how far they think they can push us, though, without some sort of reaction. This is madness.
Exactly right. ....but they'll be finding out the hard way before long that it was a delusion, and that their armed guards and walled properties are no safety guarantee.
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