I just got into a banter with a Dkos member about this issue. He kept repeating that Employee Sanctions for hirring illigal imigrants was "Trancredo and the attrition theory."
This is total BS...Great Timeline article
In 1973, leaders from the American Federation of Labor -- Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) convinced US Representative Pete Rodino (d)to sponsor a bill that would have made employing unauthorized immigrants illegal. While the bill died in Congress, it marked the beginning of a lengthy and contentious debate.
Out of this debate, the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) was born.
Ok so now that Trancredo has called for employee sanctions it is a horrible Idea.
Now you ask...since I support Trancredo's employee sanctions, I must also support the wast of money Border Fence, and how about arresting the good samaritan and charging them with a crime (misdemeanor or felony). If you believe that, why do you think I come to this site?
While Congress debated the immigration reforms that were to become IRCA, it directed the General Accounting Office (GAO) to conduct research on other countries' employer sanctions laws and how they were enforced.
In 1982, the GAO responded with a report concluding that, in the 19 countries surveyed, sanctions were largely ineffective for two reasons: employers either were able to evade responsibility for illegal employment or, once apprehended, were penalized too little to deter such acts; or the laws generally were not being effectively enforced because of strict legal constraints on investigations, non-communication between government agencies, lack of enforcement resolve, and lack of personnel.
Does this look Familiar...
Employer Sanctions Cases Resulting in Fines for FY 1988 to 2003
Source: Office of Immigration Statistics Performance Analysis System G-23.19 and author's calculations from Center for Immigration Studies Employer Sanctions Database
Looks like Clinton was in with Big Business, or was it the republican congress that...
In 1994, the INS announced its southwest border strategy, which included the well-known "Operation Gatekeeper" in San Diego as well as a number of similar operations in other Border Patrol districts. By 1996, the INS had shifted Border Patrol agents previously assigned to interior enforcement (including employer sanctions) to border enforcement.
and then
In 2000, the AFL-CIO, which had also pushed for an employer sanctions bill in the 1970s, passed a resolution calling for their repeal, but not only because of employment discrimination. Labor leaders argued that some employers had used sanctions as a justification for calling in the immigration authorities on their own workforce in retaliation for organizing drives or efforts to assert other workplace rights.
The AFL-CIO's position is that the present system is "the worst of both worlds" in that the US has almost negligible levels of enforcement against employers violating the laws, yet has allowed the potential for both discrimination and retaliation.
So the NAACO and AFL-CIO decided that it the fines weren't high enough for the businesses to take it seriously and they were actually called INS on themselves...using scare tactics to suppress their workforce.
A fence is a waste...Tunnels, containers, boats, Scuba/snorkel
A new national ID card...Gestapo style "papers"
Guest worker program or HIB...Indentured Service
The moneymen don't want unions, or labor
laws. And their answer has always been look to the Border, Where labor is cheep and disposable, be it guest workers or illegal.
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Gov. Bush found low wage labor too important for Big Business. Who cared if they eat up the education budget or health care: That was paid by the taxpayers not the Ranchers, Oilmen, Farmers, and Business owners.
Read -
Kevin Phillips "American Dynasty"
Read the Chapter 4: Taxanomics: Economics, Culture, and Morality
More Guest Workers?
Not What We Should Pick Farmers' mass access to foreign workers (illegal or legal) has caused the wages of farm workers to decrease over the past decade. A March 2000 report from the Labor Department found that the real wages of farm workers fell from $6.89 per hour in 1989 to $6.18 per hour in 1998. A new guest-worker program, or continued official acquiescence to illegal immigration, is likely to continue this downward trend.
9 years later and they are making less than they did...Wake up america Corporations are suppressing your wages to line their coat pockets.