"Who is really to blame for illegal immigration?"
From this:
...Illegal immigration could be stopped at any time. Rep. Silvestre Reyes of Texas, a twenty-six year veteran of the border patrol, commented on the issue of curbing illegal immigration during a debate on PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
"We can show statistically that the employer sanctions was an effective tool," remarked Reyes. "The problem was that Congress never followed through in giving INS the resources to enforce employer sanctions in the interior of the United States."
...The illegal immigration problem as we know it could end today if employers were properly deterred from hiring illegal workers. But this seems to be the only measure of prevention we have not taken seriously. Even the high-profile cases have been a sick joke. A jury recently acquitted Tyson Foods and other multi-million dollar corporations with mere six figure fines. If we were serious about stopping the importation of cheap labor, someone would be doing some jail time, and his collar would be white, not blue.
If we found an effective tool, what on earth would prevent us from utilizing it? Who is benefiting from illegal immigration? Employers, that's who. Every great civilization was built on the backs of an oppressed minority, and ours is no different. The days of slavery may be over, but it didn't take long for businesses to find the next best thing. These are people who hire the cheapest labor without consideration for their humanity, only their own bottom line...
See also the recent post "Left and Right, working together against everyone else" and this post with details about the miniscule number of companies that are fined for immigration violations.
Comments
Al Ruminor (not verified)
Thu, 11/17/2005 - 20:37
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The following web site is for those who have inside information on employers utilizing illegal alien labor:
http://www.wehirealiens.com/
Anyone who believes they have information on employers that are utilizing illegal alien labor should be proactive by visiting this site and filing a report.
This site is growing by leaps and bounds with the number of employers who are being reported for breaking the law on this issue. It appears that the number of reports could easily cover a majority of employers in a very short period of time, when extrapolated, who are in violation of The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. This is a grass roots effort that will far surpass the think tank solutions that, to date, have done nothing more than, perhaps, to raise awareness of the issue. It should be an easy matter for the authorities to skim the cream off of the information supplied here to make employer sanctions become a reality, or lend a high degree of unwanted transparency to the opponents of enforcement.
John S Bolton (not verified)
Sat, 09/04/2004 - 13:46
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Mass immigration into low-income circumstances allows the welfare state to enhance its share of the wealth, and this is the immediate goal of the moderate left. The moderate right crumples whenever their opposition to this process is described as racism or ethnic animosity, even though that propaganda method is used regardless of what the right does or doesn't do. The same method is used with affirmative action, expansion of poverty programs and so on. It only stops when the leadership on the right is not perturbed about being called racist etc.