WIKILEAKS EXPOSES OBAMA’S AGENDA OF OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX
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Obama criticized in reversal on child farm-labor regulations
By Sam Hananel,
The Obama administration’s move to scrap a plan that would prevent some children from working in dangerous farm jobs drew sharp rebukes Friday from child-welfare advocates who claim the president caved in to election-year pressure from farmers and Republicans.The Labor Department spent more than a year working on the proposal to ban children younger than 16 from using power-driven farm equipment — including tractors — and prevent those under 18 from working in grain silos, feed lots and stockyards.
Labor officials tried to avoid controversy by specifically excluding children who worked on their parents’ farms. But the proposal became a popular political target for Republicans who called it an impractical, heavy-handed regulation that ignored the reality of small farms.
Reid Maki, coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition, said the Labor Department’s sudden decision late Thursday to withdraw the proposed rules means more children will die in farm accidents that could have been prevented. “There was tremendous heat, and I don’t think it helped that it was an election year,” Maki said. “A lot of conservatives made a lot of political hay out of this issue.”
The goal was to protect children, who are four times more likely to be killed while performing farm work than those in all other industries combined.
But the proposal was routinely mocked in rural states such as Kansas and Montana, where farmers often have their kids do chores that can include operating heavy equipment.
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said the rules would threaten a way of life, even preventing kids from operating a battery-powered screwdriver or a pressurized garden hose. “Those regulations were very specific, things that seemed very lacking in common sense and in many ways just crazy,” Moran told reporters Friday at a news conference in Topeka, Kan.
While the Labor Department repeatedly denied that it would go that far, officials promised three months ago to modify the plan. The agency made clear it would exempt children who worked on farms owned or operated by their parents, even if the ownership was part of a complex partnership or corporate agreement.
That didn’t appease groups including the American Farm Bureau Federation that complained the new prohibitions would upset traditions in which many children work on farms owned by uncles, grandparents and other relatives to reduce costs and learn how a farm operates.
Farm-state Democrats also expressed concerns. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) called the withdrawal “a good outcome.” Sen. John Tester (D-Mont.) pledged to “fight any measure that threatens that heritage and our rural way of life.”
The Labor Department said it withdrew the proposal in response to thousands of comments about the effect of the changes on small, family-owned farms.
“To be clear, this regulation will not be pursued for the duration of the Obama administration,” the agency said.
Instead, the department said it would work with rural stakeholders, including the Farm Bureau, the National Farmers Union and 4-H to develop an educational program to reduce accidents involving young workers.
“They came under incredible pressure, and they caved to that pressure,” said Zama Coursen-Neff, deputy director of the children’s rights division of Human Rights Watch.
Coursen-Neff said the debate over the rules focused too much on family farms when it should have been about the real victims — poor Hispanic kids who do seasonal or migrant farm work and are sickened by toxic pesticides, suffocated in grain elevators or maimed by heavy farm machinery.
Many opponents didn’t seem to care if they misrepresented the rule to make a political point.
Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, posted a message on her Facebook page Wednesday with the title, “If I wanted America to fail, I’d ban kids from farm work.” She called the plan “more overreach of the federal government with many negative consequences.”
In fact, the rules would not have banned kids from all farm work, but child advocacy groups say that is the kind of misinformation they struggled to refute. “Some of these conservatives knew they were exaggerating the scope of the rules and creating unnecessary fear about them, but they were fine with that,” Maki said.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said the government should not shirk its duty to keep working children safe. “I am disappointed that the administration chose to walk away from regulations that were, at their core, about protecting children and which could have been revised to correct some of the initial proposals that generated the most concern,” Harkin said.
The government estimates that more than 300,000 children under 18 work on farms, but that figure is probably higher because it does not include children who work for farm-labor contractors.
Of the 16 children under the age of 16 who died from work-related injuries in 2010, 12 were in agriculture, according to Human Rights Watch.
LA RAZA SUPREMACIST HILDA SOLIS, SEC. OF DEPT OF LABOR.
Michelle Malkin
LA RAZA HILDA SOLIS - The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open--borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not."
That's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws ---- or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.
FROM JUDICIAL WATCH .org
Labor Secretary Pledges Help For Illegal Workers
Last Updated: Tue, 06/22/2010 - 11:00am
Two months after the Department of Labor launched a special program to assist and protect illegal immigrants in the U.S. the Obama cabinet official who heads the agency is personally encouraging undocumented workers to report employers that don’t pay them fairly.
In a Spanish-language public service announcement, Labor Secretary Hilda Solisassures that “every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not.” Illegal aliens who are not getting fair wages are encouraged to call a new hotline set up by the agency on a new “Podemos Ayudar” (We Can Help) web page designed to administer worker protection laws and ensure that employees are properly paid “regardless of immigration status.”
In the short video, also posted in English, Solis tells illegal immigrants that it’s a “serious problem” when workers in this country are not paid fairly and that all workers have the right to receive their salary regardless of immigration status. She encourages those who are not to call the new hotline and assures it’s free and confidential. “Podemos ayudar,” (we can help), Solis guarantees at the end of the brief segment.
The Labor Secretary’s new message is part of a campaign launched a few months ago to help illegal immigrant workers in the U.S., who she refers to as “vulnerable” and “underpaid.” At least 1,000 new field investigators have been deployed to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with large numbers of illegal alien employees and the agency will focus on enforcing labor and wage laws in industries that typically hire lots of illegal aliens without reporting anyone to federal immigration authorities.
For a government agency to protect law breakers in this fashion may seem unbelievable but not if you consider the source. A Former California congresswoman, Solis has close ties to the influential La Raza movement that advocates open borders and rights for illegal immigrants. She made the protection of undocumented workers a major priority upon being named Labor Secretary, assuring illegal aliens that “if you work in this country, you are protected by our laws.”
"While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling "mules."
U.S. Spends $10.7 Mil To Train “Low
Literacy” Latinos
By Judicial
Watch Blog
Created 16
Sep 2011 - 1:04pm
With
no end in sight to the devastating unemployment rate, the nation’s Department
of Labor (DOL) is dedicating nearly $11 million to foreign-language programs
that help workers with “low literacy or limited English proficiency.”
It
marks the latest of many wasteful DOL initiatives aimed at helping Latinos (the
feds’ code for illegal immigrants) working in the United States. Since
President Obama appointed renowned open borders advocate Hilda Solis to head
the agency, the former California congresswoman has dedicated vast resources to
the cause.
It’s
safe to bet this won’t be the last. The DOL has just given a list of “community
groups,” labor unions, colleges and “joint labor/management associations” $10.7 million [1] to provide hands-on
safety training and educational programs for “vulnerable” workers that lack
education and don’t speak English. The idea is to eliminate hazards in some of
the most dangerous industries, according to Solis.
A
quick glance of the grantee list [2] reveals a common thread;
all of them will provide training and materials in Spanish and at least one in
Portuguese. Most will recruit “hard-to-reach workers” with “limited English”
and “low literacy” in fields such as construction and manufacturing. A
Washington D.C. environmental group will use its $48,000 grant to develop an
online “hazard communications” for “weatherization professionals” in Spanish.
Last
spring Solis created a special program to assist illegal immigrants [3] in the U.S. by deploying
1,000 new field investigators to reach out to Latino laborers in areas with
large numbers of undocumented employees. The goal is to protect “vulnerable”
and “underpaid” workers, according to Solis, who has close ties to the nation’s
influential La Raza movement. Judicial Watch has sued the DOL [4] to obtain records regarding
the taxpayer-funded program that encourages illegal aliens to contact the
government for wage assistance.
A
few months ago Solis entered formal agreements [5] with two Central
American countries vowing to preserve the rights of their migrants working in
the U.S. Under the decree DOL regional offices will team up with local
Guatemalan and Nicaraguan embassies and consulates to distribute information to
their citizens about their “rights” in the U.S. since “Latino workers suffer
disproportionately from on-the-job heat injuries and illnesses.”
Since
Obama appointed her to run the DOL, Solis has also given the open borders most
powerful group, the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), more than $5 million to
expand nationwide and promote its leftist agenda via a network of community
organizations dedicated to serving Latinos. Read Judicial Watch’s exposé [6] on how the NCLR’s
federal funding has skyrocketed since one of its top officials got a job in the
Obama White House.
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BARACK OBAMA’S LA RAZA INFESTED ADMINISTRATION:
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OBAMA OPERATES LA RAZA SUPREMACIST OUT OF WHITE HOUSE
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OBAMA’S CONNECTION TO THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY MOVEMENT
HISTORY OF THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of AMERICA – LA RAZA AND THE “RECONQUISTA” OF AMERICA
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