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Who could possibly argue with that.
A rare moment of sanity from Ms Tucker.
Now if we could just get our Republican leaders to admit this.
These must be the end times...I've agreed with Cynthia Tucker twice in one week.
And how do you suggest that we do that? The only sure way is to have all American citizens finger printed and check the prints of all potential hires against a data base.
Anything else is going to have holes big enough to drive a truck through just like it does now.
You make the requirements too onerous and you are going to dry up the summer help jobs for teens even worse then you have already.
I'm afraid that while she actually does make sense here, her proposals are still colored by fatal naivete. If all you need to work here are legal papers, all that will do is get a lot of counterfeit papers made.
She's 100% right on this one. This problem would be self correcting if the government would simply put teeth into the laws. No employer wants to lose his business no matter how cheap illegal labor is. Without willing employers, illegals would have no incentive to come to the US, unless they really wanted to accept the values and ideals of this country.
My best recollection; feel free to add/correct if you have access to the transcript:
On Rush, a week or so ago, a guy called in and said he was a neighbor of Rush (i.e. Palm Beach, multi-million dollar mansion, sort of "Hey Rush, I'm rich too!", etc.). Then he proceeds to tell how the loss of cheap migrant labor would hurt his business. A short time later another Rush caller refers to the "rich" caller and suggests that maybe, if the rich guy paid a little more for his labor, he might not have the Palm Beach mansion, but the rich guy not having a mansion wasn't sufficient rationale for our migrant policies.
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Oily? Al Sharpton. Platoon? Louis Farrakhan. And I'm sure Jesse's up in there, somewhere. But they're oddly silent. I suspect they're rather pleased at the "revolutionary" aspect of having tens of millions of people who'll eventually be able to vote, and vote Democrat.
And everybody's going to fall for this recycled opportunistic agit-prop.
I used to be sympathetic to this position, but no more. Not after last week. If the US "Government" doesn't care enough about illegals to enforce existing laws, why should the private sector have to do it? Dereliction of duty by the "government" does not impose an obligation on private citizens.
"The private sector doing the jobs that the 'government' won't do..." Sound familiar? These guys have only one key on their piano. And its a flat note.
send in your pictures of illegals loitering in your home town.
Whaddya bet Cynthia's got a Nanny problem?
No thank you. This would be too easy to abuse.
The government has done this, sorta. It called the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) Program. Have a look. It's been a pilot program for some time.
BINGO!!
Mark my words, the illegals will be suing for reparations in the future. Our government took all the money they paid in, and some leftist judge is going to give it all back to them in spades.
All they would have to do is require U.S. employers to check the legal status of all employees and impose stiff sanctions — including multimillion-dollar fines and prison time — on employers who flout the law.Sounds nice, but it's a red herring and Cynthia knows it.After a few executives had done the perp walk, others would get the message. Illegal hiring would drop precipitously. Since the vast majority of illegal immigrants come to this country to work, many of them would leave if they couldn't get hired.
~~snip~~ The Social Security Administration is able to identify companies that routinely employ large numbers of workers using fake numbers. But by law, Social Security is forbidden from forwarding the names of those companies to Homeland Security. That law could be changed in a heartbeat, but Congress hasn't done it.
Congress could also appropriate money for a nationwide computer system that would allow all employers to get instant verification of a worker's Social Security number and then require all employers to use it.
Do to people LIKE her and her ilk (the Dems), the DOJ, OUR DOJ, has a Special Division FOR 'Immigrant' Employment Rights. This division PROSECUTES employers who refuse to hire and/or fire 'immigrants' with dubious looking, aka phony, documents. They even WARN employers that just because an I-9 form or the SSA says there's no such person. That is NOT cause to deny any immigrant a job OR to fire them. This Division works in conjunction with the EEOC and the Dept of Labor.
Last year when HR4437 was being written, and if you will recall was also being discussed in the Senate for the first time, one proposal was to offer IMMUNITY from Federal Prosecution from this 'special division' and the wrath of the EEOC and the Dept of Labor to employers who accidently fired or did not hire an 'immigrant' who is here legally, but had dubious ID. The Dems had a collective fit, would have NO part of that and it went nowhere and as such was not part of the House Bill.
So therin lies the problem.
One hand we want and scream to punish the employer YET the Gubmint warns him he better NOT deny any immigrant a job - or 'else'. And the Senate sure isn't talking about any employer immunity in any of their current amnesty proposals, oops... guest worker Bills. So as long as this special 'immigrant' division exists, the whole thing is a joke.
An aside, last year on this DOJ website the head of this divsion was a Mexican, picture and all. Now the DOJ no longer has that person's name listed. Gee, I wonder why?
Cynthia Tucker tells the unorthodox truth, and then covers herself with her Liberal Democratic friends by repeatedly smearing Congressman Tom Tancredo. These are the compromises you must make to remain an MSM wh-re with an urge to tell the truth
Cynthia's right about big business, but Tom Tancredo's anything but a minor league congressman.