Posted on 05/20/2007 6:40:52 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON, May 20 — Employers, who helped shape a major immigration bill over the last three months, said today that they were unhappy with the result because it would not cure the severe labor shortages they foresee in the coming decade.
In addition, employers expressed alarm as they learned that the Senate bill would require them to check a government database to verify that all current and former employees — aliens and citizens alike — are eligible to work in the United States.
The Senate begins debating the bill on Monday. Supporters, including the White House, had hoped that senators would finish work on it this week, before the Memorial Day recess. But leading members of Congress said today that the bill would take more time and could face significant hurdles.
The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the immigration bill “can’t possibly be completed before Memorial Day.” On the ABC News program “This Week,” Mr. McConnell said the Senate would need at least two weeks to digest and amend the bill, which he described as “a big, complicated piece of legislation.”
At the same time, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, expressed concern about a central element of the bill, under which the government would establish a point system to evaluate would-be immigrants, giving more weight to job skills and education and...
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Companies with lower-skilled workers have a similar problem. The Labor Department estimates that 37 percent of all new jobs in the next decade will be filled by people with a high school education or less. Of the 10 occupations expected to see the largest job growth, only two require a college degree. On-the-job training is usually enough for the other occupations, like retail sales clerks, home health aides and food service workers, the department said.
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Advanced calculus or Sandscrit??
Uh, how are they able to read a bill that’s not even written yet?
My proposal:
Wonder who these employers are? Oh my! They’d have to check a data base to see if their employees were legal! That is alarming. That is not what they wanted. Who cares if the underclass is legal. Unskilled labor don’t need no stinking papers. This is the new Ameridah.
“La Raza” is an employer?
Joe Arpaio would know what to do with the b*st*rds.
Title: A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes.
Yeah : )
I guess we will have to allow another few hundred million more third worlders in to take care of all these new thriving business ventures, built on the backs of cheap labor and subsidized by the American taxpayer.
Well, if it merely involved employers checking a database, it might be swallowable. However, the provisions include YOU, the EMPLOYEE, providing the SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER of EVERY EMPLOYER you’ve had over the previous five years to your PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER. In addition to providing your SS number, of course.
Even worse, this law could apply for something as simple as hiring the neighbor’s kid to do your lawn. If I break my leg and have to hire someone to mow the lawn, I’ll just do it old-school, underground economy style by paying a neighbor’s kid cash.
I don’t think that this measure is going anywhere.
See what Fred Thompson said here.
This has the hollow ring of Br'er Rabbit being begged not to be thrown in the briar patch. I once "accidently" mixed up a socila security number when I was applying to be in a state job service database. It took them all of two minutes to find there was a mismatch. This was years ago with 1970's technology.
CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them.
I had a more “humane” idea.
After they collect the names of all those here illegally, each one is given a form to fill out. On that form, they have to get the name of one person who is waiting to come into the country. That person has to sign away their right to come into the country to the illegal who is here right now.
If they can’t get the ones waiting in line to give them their spot, they leave the country.
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