UAW-corporate corruption
scandal spreads to Ford and GM
4
November 2017
The United Auto Workers (UAW) in the United States is the subject
of an expanding scandal that has cast a light on its corrupt and incestuous
relationship with the Big Three auto companies.
In late July, a federal indictment was unsealed detailing charges against
top UAW officials and a corporate executive at Fiat Chrysler (FCA). On Tuesday,
the Detroit News reported
that the FBI is adding Ford and General Motors to its investigations into a
network of bribes funneled through training centers jointly operated by the UAW
and the auto companies.
The indictments involving FCA revealed that
leading UAW executives
received over $4.5
million in payouts from company officials.
The money was
allegedly transmitted through
the joint training center and laundered
through
several charities, children’s centers
and hospice programs. Union officials
lavishly
spent money officially earmarked for worker
training on themselves and
their relatives,
purchasing furniture, jewelry, designer
clothing,
international vacations and other
luxury items.
Those charged so far include Monica Morgan, the wife of former UAW
Vice President General Holiefield, who would be indicted but for his death in
2015; former UAW negotiator Virdell King; Chrysler lead negotiator Al
Iacobelli; and Chrysler financial analyst Jerome Durden. Durden and King have
both pleaded guilty to corruption charges as part of a deal with prosecutors.
UAW Vice President for Chrysler Norwood Jewell is also involved, though he has
not been charged, as he allegedly received gifts purchased with money stolen by
other officials.
According to a report in the Detroit News, the investigation is now expanding
to other top UAW executives, including UAW Vice President for GM Cindy Estrada,
who oversaw the UAW-GM training center, and her predecessor, Joe Ashton.
Though not named as prominently as Estrada in the Detroit News report, UAW
Vice President for Ford Jimmy Settles oversees the UAW-Ford training center and
is also likely under suspicion. All these officials oversee their own charities
with funds worth hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars.
The revelations that top officials at the UAW received direct
handouts from company executives can come as no surprise to anyone following
the operations of the UAW. For decades, the UAW and the other organizations
that call themselves “trade unions” have functioned as instruments of corporate
management. They are not “workers organizations,” but cheap-labor contractors
and an industrial police force that work to suppress any opposition from the
workers they claim to represent.
In the case of the UAW, the relationship is particularly naked.
While the UAW was forged in the bitter and insurrectionary battles led by
socialist-minded workers in the 1930s, it came to be dominated by a pro-capitalist
and nationalist bureaucracy. In the 1980s, the UAW and the AFL-CIO trade union
apparatus responded to the decline of American capitalism and the
social-counter revolution launched by the ruling class by integrating itself
more closely with corporate management, forcing through concession contract
after concession contract. The “training centers” involved in the corruption
scandal were set up then, serving as slush funds for union executives.
In recent years, the UAW—led by executives involved in the corruption
scandal—has resorted to outright fraud to force through measures demanded by
the companies.
The 2015 contract in particular was rammed through in the face of
a groundswell of opposition from auto workers, including the first defeat of a
national contract backed by the UAW since the 1970s (at Fiat Chrysler). The
contract that was pushed through at FCA and then GM and Ford built on measures
in earlier contracts, including a multi-tier wage system, poverty-level wages,
the expanded use of temporary labor, and cuts in health care and retirement
programs.
That these contracts were implemented through bribery and
kickbacks makes them legally inoperable. It also lends further support to
widespread allegation that the UAW stuffed ballots to pass the contract at
Ford in the final vote in 2015.
The World
Socialist Web Site played the central role in mobilizing and
organizing opposition to the 2015 contracts. It warned at the time that “the biggest
obstacle to unifying the working class is the United Auto Workers and the other
unions.” We noted that “top union executives receive hundreds of thousands of
dollars, padding the salaries and expense accounts derived from dues and cash
diverted from the strike fund with compensation from their positions on
corporate boards, joint labor-management operations and the UAW’s retiree
health care trust.”
In response to the opposition of workers, the UAW hired public
relations firm BerlinRosen to improve its image and stop workers from using
social media. UAW President Dennis Williams denounced “outside groups” that
“like to stir people up” for helping defeat the FCA deal.
AFL-CIO Metro Detroit lead counsel Bruce Miller called the WSWS
“vultures on the left dressed in red garb who preach their love for the workers
while they advocate on behalf of the enemies of working people.” No word from
Miller as to whether the corruption charges change his evaluation of who
advocates “on behalf of the enemies of working people”…
Given the current campaign led by the Democratic Party and US
intelligence agencies to use allegations of Russian efforts to “sow divisions”
in the US to justify a regime of Internet censorship, it should be recalled
that it was the UAW that first began employing the term “fake news” to attack
the WSWS and autoworkers for using social media to share information and
coordinate opposition to the 2015 contract.
The outcome of this operation can be seen in the conditions faced
by auto workers. Last month, a 21-year-old Ford Woodhaven Stamping temporary
worker named Jacoby Hennings died in an apparent suicide after being
disciplined for tardiness by the company. A police report acquired by the World Socialist Web Site shows
that Hennings died after seeking help from the UAW. Hennings’ desperation is an
acute expression of a near universal phenomenon among autoworkers and the
entire working class, which faces precarious and temporary work, uncertain
hours, low wages, and a complete absence of rights or real grievance procedures
on the shop floor.
The companies, the union, and the entire political establishment
fear more than anything else that workers will break from the stranglehold of
the trade unions to advance their own interests. Former Federal Prosecutor
Peter Henning told the Detroit News, “If the companies are
buying labor peace by corrupting union leadership, that has to be a significant
concern. This sends a message that union leaders are just in it for themselves.
This can rile up members and lead to an insurgency.”
An insurgency is precisely what is required. Under conditions of
growing international tensions, deepening social inequality, mass deportations
and police violence, there is no doubt that the coming period will involve the
outbreak of large-scale social struggle involving millions of workers and young
people. The UAW scandal is further proof that in the trade unions workers
confront not their representatives, but their most determined enemies.
Workers need new organizations to advance their interests against
the massive corporations that control both political parties, the media, the
courts, the police and the unions. New organizations—workplace and neighborhood
committees—will be based on the principle of the class struggle and will seek
to draw together different strata and sections of the working class to harness
their strength in a common fight against the capitalist system.
Eric London
disposable”
Detroit
autoworkers condemn UAW in death of young Ford worker
6 November 2017
“We are treated like garbage, like we are
disposable”
Detroit
autoworkers condemn UAW in death of young Ford worker
6 November 2017
Autoworkers in Detroit, Michigan area Ford and Fiat Chrysler
plants expressed sympathy for the family and friends of Jacoby Hennings, the
21-year-old temporary part-time (TPT) worker who apparently took his own life
at Ford’s Woodhaven Stamping plant on October 20. The tragedy shone light on
the cruel abuse of so-called TPTs that is sanctioned and overseen by the United
Auto Workers (UAW) union.
Woodhaven police say the young worker shot himself after he pulled
a gun in a UAW office at the plant where he had gone after a supervisor sent
him home for being late. Although they pay union dues to the UAW, TPTs make
substandard pay and few if any benefits and can be stuck in part-time status
for years on end. They can be denied any chance to become a full-time worker or
face dismissal without recourse if they are late to work, miss a day or have
another “occurrence.”
In addition to the Ford plant, Hennings held down another
part-time job at Fiat Chrysler’s (FCA) Warren Truck Assembly Plant, 37 miles
away. Co-workers at the truck plant who spoke to the World Socialist Web Site Autoworker Newsletter described
the young man as hard-working and quiet. One said he often looked exhausted,
however, and would grab naps during breaks. He also said the young worker was
anxious that he might lose his job when Fiat Chrysler moves production of the
Dodge Ram pickup truck to another factory next year.
A WSWS Autoworker
Newsletter campaign team distributed newsletters at the Warren
Truck assembly and stamping plants over the weekend, and at Ford’s Dearborn
Assembly plant in suburban Detroit.
“Coby,” as he was known among family and friends, comes from a
family of autoworkers. His mother Shemeka Hennings works at the FCA Warren
Stamping plant and his father, Bernard Jr., works at Chrysler’s Mopar parts
division. Several aunts, uncles, cousins and other relatives currently work or
have retired from the Jefferson North Plant, Sterling Heights Assembly Plant
and Warren Truck. His aunt Lucretia told the WSWS it took her and her sister 11
years to go from a part-time position to full-time at Chrysler.
Workers at the Fiat Chrysler plants expressed their sympathy
towards Coby’s mother and family and denounced the stressful conditions TPTs
and all workers confront at the factory, where the workday is 10 hours, and the
UAW has long collaborated with the FCA bosses to cut wages and increase
production. After speaking to a young TPT about his working conditions a WSWS
reporter reached out to shake his hand. The worker pulled back and apologized,
saying his hands were too swollen to shake after a few days of work.
Another worker expressed anger over the UAW corruption scandal,
agreeing that the UAW basically functions as a temp agency and cheap labor
contractor, funneling young workers into the plants and getting paid millions
in bribes. “I can’t believe the local was going to have a memorial for General
Holiefield when he died—he was a complete crook.”
Ford workers at the Dearborn plant, which builds the popular F-150
pickup, were eager to speak about Jacoby Hennings. Several, especially higher
seniority workers, who have witnessed the rapid deterioration of conditions
over the course of the last several UAW contracts, directly attributed the
young man’s death to the intense harassment and relentless stress to which TPTs
are subjected.
Speaking about the UAW, a worker with 21 years in the plant said,
“They are supposed to represent us, but they represent the company. Unless we,
the people, stick together, nothing is going to change.
“The conditions are especially rough on TPTs. Their hours get cut.
They have no benefits, no rights. I know he felt left out. You are doing the
same work, and you get nothing for it. You are helping the company make a
profit, but you get nothing but humiliation.”
Another veteran worker said, “The union is no good. You have to
represent yourself. I have 38 years in the plant. You know I know what is going
on.”
Another older worker was particularly saddened at the young man’s
death. “I have a 21-year-old son myself. I saw your article. It makes me
wonder. What happened to make him take his own life? He seemed like a positive
person with so much to live for.”
“It is sad, horrible,” said a young worker on his way into the
night shift. “I am a temp myself. I have been here close to 90 days.”
Another older worker added, “I was a TPT. LTS (Long-Term
Supplemental) it’s the same. I have seen what they do. They are stressing them
out for two years or more. That is ridiculous! The contract says they can have
48 percent temps and I am sure they are way over that now.
“We did not vote for this contract. It was going down to defeat
with a 53 percent no vote. Then all of a sudden, the next day, it was 57
percent yes.
“If you are counting the votes, why can’t we be there to watch you
count the votes? There should be numbers on each piece of paper. And there were
no numbers. How do we know they are not stuffing the ballot box?
“They are killing the younger workers. They need eight years
before they get to top pay.”
There is widespread anger and resentment against the union because
of the deteriorating conditions, which resulted from the 2015 contract
betrayal. “I heard a guy denouncing the union the other day in the bathroom,”
the older worker continued. “He was saying the union doesn’t give a damn and
they don’t stick up for the workers.
“The contract is pretty clear. There is a clause that anything
which threatens the company in any way, the company has the right to override
the contract. What about our rights?
“The company reasons that if you keep them part-time and hungry,
you can make them do anything. Now we have people who have been here for two
years and they are still part-time.
“I have been there. They give you three days to learn a job, and
then the supervisor will harass you. ‘So-and-so can do it, why can’t you?’”
“They have girls doing jobs on the engine line that they should
not be doing. That is what causes absenteeism. We try to tell management how it
would work better. But they do not want to listen to us.”
A former Ford worker in the Detroit area wrote in to the
WSWS Autoworker Newsletter.
She said she completely understood what the young man went through as a part-time,
temporary worker.
“We are treated like garbage, like we are disposable. Everything
is about them, not about you.
“I got fired for basically nothing. I was never compensated. I was
thrown out of work like trash. They pulled a trick. I had to leave early one
day because my grandmother was sick. Later she died and I attended her funeral.
They said that was two ‘occurrences’ and I was fired.
“By law, you are supposed to have three days bereavement for the
death of an immediate family member.” She added, “I have two daughters the age
of Jacoby. One is an autoworker and one is a flight attendant.
“Jacoby had so much life and vibrancy in him, but no one would
listen to him. I wish people would be a little more understanding. It is hard
to wake up as a parent and not see your child anymore.”
After losing her job, she said, “I felt like contemplating suicide
myself. I couldn’t make ends meet. I was facing the shutoff of utilities and
eviction.
“We don’t have a voice. There needs to be an awareness of what is
going on. It needs to be exposed and brought to light and those responsible
held accountable.”
OPEN BORDERS:
IT'S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED AND PASSING ALONG THE ILLEGALS' WELFARE AND CRIME COSTS TO THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS!
“That Washington-imposed policy of mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.” ---- NEIL MUNRO
95,385,000: Record Number Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Falls to 62.7%
(CNSNews.com) – The economy added 261,000 jobs in October – the most since President Trump took office -- and the nation’s unemployment rate dropped another tenth of a point to 4.1 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.
But a record number of Americans – 95,385,000 – were not in the labor force in October, and the critical labor force participation rate dropped four-tenths of a point to 62.7 percent, a disappointing show, as 76,500 Americans left the civilian labor force..
The previous "not in the labor force" record of 95,102,000 was set in December 2016, the final full month of the Barack Obama presidency.
And the labor force participation rate reached 38-year low of 62.4 percent in September 2015, near the end of Obama's second term. The participation rate has not improved much since then, although it had been trending up since May 2017.
In October, the nation’s civilian noninstitutionalized population, consisting of all people age 16 or older who were not in the military or an institution, reached 255,766,000. Of those, 160,381,000 participated in the labor force by either holding a job or actively seeking one.
The 160,381,000 who participated in the labor force equaled 62.7 percent of the 255,766,000 civilian noninstitutionalized population.
Employment in food services and drinking places increased sharply in October, mostly offsetting a decline in September that largely reflected the impact of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey. Job gains also occurred in professional and business services, manufacturing, and health care.
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult women (3.6 percent) and Whites (3.5 percent) declined in October. The jobless rates for adult men (3.8 percent), teenagers (13.7 percent), Blacks (7.5 percent), Asians (3.1 percent), and Hispanics (4.8 percent) showed little change.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says job gains have averaged 162,000 over the last 3 months.
Visa Lottery Chain Migration Imported 5 Million Foreigners Since 1994, Says Report
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The visa lottery has triggered a hidden wave of chain migration, and has delivered almost 5 million foreign nationals to the United States since 1994, says a new analysis.
New research by the Center for Immigration Studies reveals the enormous chain-migration impact of the visa lottery program, where 50,000 visas every year are given to foreign nationals from a multitude of countries. The countries include those with terrorist problems, including Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Yemen, and Uzbekistan.
Foreign nationals from eligible countries can win the visa lottery if they have a high-school degree and two years of work experience. Once they win the green cards to permanently stay in the United States, the migrants can bring in their spouses and minor children. Each arrival can get citizenship in five years, and then begin choosing members of their extended family — including parents, siblings and their children — to also become U.S. residents and citizens, regardless of their character, education, ideology or security risks. This expanding, unscreened immigration system is known as “chain migration,” and it has more than doubled U.S. immigration rates during since the 1980s.
The program is in the public eye because of the November 1 massacre of eight cyclists in New York, allegedly by Uzbek Muslim — Sayfullo Saipov — who won a green card in the 2010 visa lottery.
Data collected by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 1.1 million lottery winners have brought 3.8 million unscreened chain-migrants to the United States since 1994.
Preston Huennekens from the Center for Immigration Studies explains in his report:
Despite its supporters’ assurances that the Visa Lottery is responsible for only 50,000 immigrants in any given year, chain migration means that the program actually accounts for perhaps 165,000 new immigrants per year because of earlier lottery winners sponsoring their relatives. In addition, the multiplier for Visa Lottery immigrants could be even larger than other green card categories because the per-country caps and long waiting lists that slow down immigration from the main sending countries like Mexico and the Philippines would not apply to applicants from lottery source countries, since they are by definition getting fewer green cards overall.This is far more than the advertised 50,000 people per year, and its implications certainly warrant discussion in the broader debate of the Visa Lottery’s future.
Foreign nationals in the United States each bring approximately 3.45 extended family members into the country.
Every year, close to 200,000 chain migrants are brought in by prior-year lottery winners, adding to the huge legal and illegal immigrant population that now stands at a record 44 million.
Even if the lottery visa program is shut down in 2017, prior arrivals will continue to bring in more unscreened family chain-migrants unless the Congress also complies with President Donald Trump’s call for an end to chain migration.
The visa lottery was created in 1990 by Democratic politicians, including Sen. Chuck Schumer — with support from the business-first wing of the GOP. Polls show broad public opposition to the unscreened immigration program.
As Breitbart News reported, more than 500,000 foreign nationals have come to the U.S. by winning the visa lottery in their native countries between 2005 and 2015. The United States has even invited 25,976 Uzbek co-nationals of suspected New York City terrorist Sayfullo Saipov, despite Uzbekistan being listed by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency as a terrorist hotspot. Saipov entered the U.S. by winning the Visa Lottery in 2010 and quickly obtained a green card.
Mass immigration via chain migration to the U.S. has led to negative impacts on the American public. For instance, every year, 4 million blue-collar and white-collar Americans graduate from college but are thrown into a workforce where they must compete with nearly 1.5 million new illegal and legal immigrants who are admitted to the U.S. every year.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
END THE MEX INVASION – IMPOSE BORDER to OPEN BORDER E-VERIFY and put EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS IN PRISON!
Notice how we never hear the phony populist Trump talking about E-VERIFY!
AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!
“The percentage of foreign-born workers in the U.S. labor force has more than tripled over the last four decades and while the U.S. represents just 5 percent of the world’s population it attracts 20 percent of the world’s immigrants, according to a new report.”
Open the floodgates of our welfare state to the uneducated, impoverished, and unskilled masses of the world and in a generation or three America, as we know it, will be gone.
Those most impacted are middle class and lower middle class. It is they whose jobs are taken, whose raises are postponed, whose schools are filled with non-English speaking children that absorb precious resources for remedial English, whose public parks are trashed and whose emergency rooms serve as the local clinic for the illegal underground.
THE SECRET REPORT ON ILLEGALS TAKING MIDDLE AND HIGH END JOBS…. What? You thought they only took the sh-it jobs?
LOS ANGELES GANGS
In Mex-occupied CA, Mexican gangs now commit nearly half of all murders. In Los Angeles, Mexicans commit 93% of the murders. Really want open borders?
Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has testified before a Congressional committee that in 2004, 95% of all outstanding warrants for murder in Los Angeles were for illegal aliens; in 2000, 23% of all Los Angeles County jail inmates were illegal aliens and that in 1995, 60% of Los Angeles’s largest street gang, the 18th Street gang, were illegal aliens.
'Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act of 2017' Would Create Trainwreck in Immigration System
By John Miano
CIS Immigration Blog, October 26, 2017
. . .
Another factor in green card backlogs is per-country quotas. Since 1965, the United State has had a policy of diversity in immigration. Aliens from no country are allowed more than 7 percent of the green cards each year. With 140,000 employment-based green cards, that means each country is limited to about 10,000.
The drafters of the Immigration Act of 1990 allowed workers on H-1B visas to flow into the green card queue, but they did not impose matching per-country quotas on H-1B visas. Just like merging three-inch sewer pipes into a one-inch pipe, the dual intent combined with a lack of per-country quotas on H-1B visas created an entirely predictable result: green card backlogs.
Because the H-1B program is nearly exclusively a path for importing labor from low wage countries, Indians received about three-quarters of the H-1B visas approved in FY 2016. The problem of telling 70,000 workers from India each year to apply for 10,000 green cards should have been apparent to all.
The solution to this backlog problem is obvious (to all but members of Congress): Make H-1B and L visas truly non-immigrant, i.e., temporary. Force employers to choose up front whether they will hire a temporary guestworker or a permanent immigrant. That way, each foreign worker knows the day he arrives whether he is going to stay or go home.
. . .https://cis.org/Miano/Fairness-High-Skilled-Immigrants-Act-2017-Would-Create-Trainwreck-Immigration-System
Experts: 44 Percent of DACA Illegal Aliens Worked Without Valid Social Security Numbers
The Associated Press
Almost half of illegal aliens shielded from deportation under an Obama-created temporary amnesty program have previously worked in the United States despite not holding valid Social Security numbers authorizing them to work.
A study by the University of California, San Diego, reveals that nearly 44 percent of the almost 800,000 illegal aliens who have been protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program previously worked in the U.S. without valid Social Security numbers.
The study, according to Center for Immigration Studies Researcher Ronald Mortensen, sheds light on the potential identity theft rate of DACA recipients.
“However, these individuals were unable to legally obtain Social Security numbers for their pre-DACA employment, which means that they used fraudulently obtained Social Security numbers that all-too-often belong to American citizens, including American children,” Mortensen writes. He continues:
The use of unlawfully obtained Social Security numbers by individuals eligible for DACA status is so pervasive that the Obama administration instructed applicants not to disclose their illegally obtained numbers. That ensured that Americans who are the victims of DACA identity theft were left with destroyed credit, arrest records attached to their names, unpaid tax liabilities, and corrupted medical records while the DACA recipients walked away scot-free from multiple felonies — forgery, Social Security fraud, perjury on I-9 forms, and identity theft.
Mortensen says President Trump’s administration should implement a plan called “DACA Victims’ Restitution Fund” where DACA illegal aliens who have previously worked under stolen Social Security numbers would pay a fine to their American victims ranging from $3,000 to $5,000.
Under Mortensen’s plan, if DACA recipients cannot pay their fine, the open borders and cheap labor lobby would be allowed to help each illegal alien raise the funds needed to pay back their American identity theft victim.
The revelation of potential mass identity theft by DACA recipients comes as GOP lawmakers are crafting two separate pieces of legislation that both would give permanent amnesty to the illegal aliens, as Breitbart News reported.
Previously, Breitbart News reported how a former official with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) estimated that the fraud rate in the DACA program was roughly “40 to 50 percent.”
“Based on what I had seen and what I discussed with my colleagues, the fraud rate is 40 to 50 percent. It’s possible that it was higher,” Matt O’Brien told LifeZette at the time.
O’Brien’s assertion that USCIS often rushed to get illegal aliens on the DACA rolls matches up with previous Breitbart Texas reporting, which revealed how the Obama Administration added 122,221 DACA recipients to the amnesty program in the last three months of his presidency.
At the time, immigration expert John Miano told Breitbart Texas that the approval rate for DACA in Obama’s last three months stood at roughly 98 percent, leaving wide open the potential for fraud and abuse in the program.
Since DACA’s inception, more than 2,100 DACA recipients saw their protected status revoked for being involved in gang activity or suspected/convicted of a felony. Due to a loophole in the DACA program, more than 39,000 illegal aliens have been able to obtain Green Cards and more than 1,000 naturalized.
‘Ruled Out’: GOP Amnesty Plan Excludes E-Verify, Allowing Employers to Continue Hiring Illegal Aliens
File Photo by Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Senate Republicans crafting legislation to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens have entirely “ruled out” including the popular initiative to mandate that employers use E-Verify, a system that weeds out illegal aliens from taking American jobs.
As Breitbart News reported, the group of GOP senators is seeking to give permanent amnesty to an estimated 800,000 to 3.3 million eligible illegal aliens, the majority of which are shielded from deportation by the Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
At the same time, a major pro-American immigration priority for President Trump’s administration, mandatory E-Verify — which prevents employers from hiring illegal aliens by forcing them to check each workers’ immigration status — has been totally excluded from any amnesty plan by the Senate Republicans.
Politico noted:
… some outlines of an agreement are becoming clearer. For instance, the senators have all but ruled out including a mandatory workplace verification system known as E-Verify in a final DACA agreement, according to multiple lawmakers engaged in the talks.
Pro-American immigration reformer Roy Beck, head of NumbersUSA, said that without E-Verify “there is little pretense that deal makers see controlling illegal employment/immigration as a goal.”
The move to exclude E-Verify from a DACA amnesty deal also shows the lack of seriousness the Senate and House Republicans hold for Trump’s recently released 70-point list of immigration priorities.
Aside from mandatory E-Verify, Trump’s immigration priorities include:
- Construction of a border wall
- Deporting unaccompanied alien children who are not at-risk in their native country
- Preventing criminal illegal aliens and gang members from receiving immigration benefits
- Eliminating the diversity visa lottery
- Classifying overstaying a visa as a “misdemeanor”
- Restricting certain federal grants to sanctuary cities, which refuse to detain criminal illegal aliens
- Ending family-based chain migration
- Enacting a merit-based legal immigration where only qualified immigrants can enter the U.S.
Of Trump’s immigration priorities, mandatory E-Verify is easily the most popular pro-American initiative, with recent polling by Pulse Opinion Research showing that a majority of 68 percent of likely voters support E-Verify.
Under mandatory E-Verify and stricter immigration laws, American workers see rising wages, specifically in the blue-collar U.S. jobs that working-class Americans often have to compete with illegal aliens for.
In Texas’s construction industry, for instance, Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration has led to rising wages for American workers, as Breitbart News reported.
Every year, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million legal immigrants a year, not including the thousands of foreign workers who enter the country to take low-skilled seasonal jobs in farming and non-farming industries.
For decades, Attorney General Jeff Sessions argued that massive low-skilled immigration to the U.S. has forced the American working-class into unemployment and undercut blue-collar wages.
In a recent study, as Breitbart News reported, states that enforced E-Verify – the program that weeds out illegal immigrants for job openings – have enjoyed less unemployment as Americans no longer have to compete with the illegal immigrant population for work.
Additionally, a recent Rasmussen Reports poll found that more than half of Americans in the working-class, making less than $30,000 a year, say illegal aliens do crowd out jobs for blue-collar American workers, as Breitbart News has reported.
Forget the Border Wall, Mr. President. Look to the Hole in Worksite Enforcement Rules
By Jerry Kammer
PBS NewsHour, September 25, 2017
If President Donald Trump is serious about stopping illegal immigration, he should forget about the border wall and turn his attention to the gaping hole in the enforcement of immigration law at U.S. worksites.
Washington has been unwilling to repair this problem, despite three decades of failure since Congress passed the erroneously named Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). As a result of the law, the U.S. population of undocumented immigrants grew from about 3.5 million in 1990 to its peak of 12.2 million in 2007. The current estimate is 11.3 million people.
Presented as a compassionate but pragmatic compromise, IRCA coupled a one-time amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants with an employer sanctions regime to punish those who knowingly hired persons not authorized to work in the United States.
But the law came into the world with a fatal defect. Because of the clout of strange-bedfellows — a left-right coalition that united immigrant rights activists, Latino politicians, businesses, and libertarians — IRCA was stripped of a mandate for the executive branch to develop a secure means of verifying that workers were authorized. Instead, workers were allowed to present documents from a wide assortment of easily counterfeited identifiers, and employers were required to accept any document that “reasonably appears on its face to be genuine.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-forget-border-wall-mr-president-look-hole-worksite-enforcement-rules/
PBS NewsHour, September 25, 2017
If President Donald Trump is serious about stopping illegal immigration, he should forget about the border wall and turn his attention to the gaping hole in the enforcement of immigration law at U.S. worksites.
Washington has been unwilling to repair this problem, despite three decades of failure since Congress passed the erroneously named Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). As a result of the law, the U.S. population of undocumented immigrants grew from about 3.5 million in 1990 to its peak of 12.2 million in 2007. The current estimate is 11.3 million people.
Presented as a compassionate but pragmatic compromise, IRCA coupled a one-time amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants with an employer sanctions regime to punish those who knowingly hired persons not authorized to work in the United States.
But the law came into the world with a fatal defect. Because of the clout of strange-bedfellows — a left-right coalition that united immigrant rights activists, Latino politicians, businesses, and libertarians — IRCA was stripped of a mandate for the executive branch to develop a secure means of verifying that workers were authorized. Instead, workers were allowed to present documents from a wide assortment of easily counterfeited identifiers, and employers were required to accept any document that “reasonably appears on its face to be genuine.”
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/column-forget-border-wall-mr-president-look-hole-worksite-enforcement-rules/
It's About Time – Employer Hit by $96 Million Penalty for Hiring Illegal Aliens
By David North
CIS Immigration Blog, September 29, 2017
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The feds also secured a guilty plea from Larry Gauger, a mid-level Asplundh executive, for the same set of issues; he faces sentencing in federal court on October 16. One hopes he gets some jail time.
This was not a garden-variety illegal alien hiring violation, according to court documents.
As a result of an E-Verify check, some 100 Asplundh workers were identified as not being in the country legally and were laid off by the firm. Then some of them were knowingly rehired under new, phony names bearing new, phony documents.
The information filed against the company cited four examples of this double-dealing, with, for instance, a worker who had been Danny Palao prior to his being laid off, being rehired as Jose Feliciano.
. . .https://cis.org/North/Its-About-Time-Employer-Hit-96-Million-Penalty-Hiring-Illegal-Aliens
DoJ sues company that refused to hire Americans
More of this, please.
The Department of Justice is cracking down on companies that show a preference for hiring foreign workers over Americans. DoJ filed suit against a Colorado company that refused to hire three Americans as seasonal technicians, preferring to employ foreign workers under the H-2A visa program.
The complaint alleges that in 2016, Crop Production discriminated against at least three United States citizens by refusing to employ them as seasonal technicians in El Campo, Texas, because Crop Production preferred to hire temporary foreign workers under the H-2A visa program.
"In the spirit of President Trump's Executive Order on Buy American and Hire American, the Department of Justice will not tolerate employers who discriminate against U.S. workers because of a desire to hire temporary foreign visa holders," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement. "… Where there is a job available, U.S. workers should have a chance at it before we bring in workers from abroad."
This is the first complaint filed stemming from the "Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative," which was launched on March 1.
A Civil Rights Division official told Fox News that since the initiative's launch, the division has opened 29 investigations of "potential discrimination against U.S. workers based on a hiring preference for foreign visa workers."
DOJ officials also told Fox News the department has reached at least one settlement with a company discriminating against U.S. workers in favor of foreign visa workers, and distributed over $100,000.
There is no more abused immigration rule than worker visa programs. The H-2A program, and other visa programs that allow foreign workers into the U.S., was never meant to replace American workers or keep Americans from being employed. These programs were designed to take up the slack in seasonal employment and hire foreigners when there aren't enough Americans qualified to do the job.
The latter reason is dubious and complicated, which is why companies can get away with preferential hiring. In this case, the transgression was apparently so obvious that DoJ sued. You can expect a settlement by the company, who won't want to go through an extended legal process.
The case will also act as a deterrent to other companies who are abusing the visa program and keeping Americans from working jobs for which they are qualified.
Digital Enforcement: Effects of E-Verify on Unauthorized Immigrant Employment and Population
By Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Special Report, September 2017https://www.dallasfed.org/-/media/Documents/research/pubs/everify.pdf?la=en
By Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Special Report, September 2017https://www.dallasfed.org/-/media/Documents/research/pubs/everify.pdf?la=en
JEFF SESSION’S LONG BATTLE FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER He is the only one in the country that has consistently spoken out for the AMERICAN WORKER!
Sessions should keep dragging Trump out of his amnesty closet and build the wall against NARCOMEX!
IMPOSE E-VERIFY AND THE
MEX OCCUPATION ENDS THE NEXT DAY! PUT EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS IN PRISON AND THE
MEX OCCUPATION ENDS WITHIN MINUTES!
JOE LEGAL v LA RAZA JOSE ILLEGAL
Here’s how it breaks
down; will make you want to be an illegal!
THE DEVASTATING COST
OF MEXICO’S WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA’S OPEN BORDERS
Will Trump’s Amnesty
double these figures?
CATASTROPHIC CRIME
SURGE IN MEX-
OCCUPIED CALIFORNIA
Half the murders in
Mexifornia are now by Mex gangs!
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