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.
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
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.
ONE AMERICAN
COUNTY….under Mex occupation
LOS ANGELES
COUNTY HANDS MEXICO’S ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS MORE THAN A BILLION PER YEAR.
IN THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, MEXICANS COMMIT 93% OF THE
MURDERS!
'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
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
. . .
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 2017
https://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 2017
https://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!