Among those who will be cleared of past crimes under the Senate's proposed immigration-reform bill would be the businesses that have employed the estimated 10 million illegal aliens eligible for citizenship and that provided the very "magnet" that drew them here in the first place.
Buried in the more than 600 pages of legislation is a section titled "Employer Protections," which states: "Employers of aliens applying for adjustment of status under this section shall not be subject to civil and criminal tax liability relating directly to the employment of such alien."
Supporters of the legislation insist that such provisions do not amount to "amnesty."
"The legislation we are considering today is not amnesty," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said last week. "That is a pejorative term, really a smear term used to denigrate the efforts at comprehensive immigration reform. This is not amnesty because amnesty means a pardon of those who have broken the law."
Mr. Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, and others argue that the bill is not amnesty for illegal aliens because they will have to pay $2,000 in fines before they gain citizenship.
The law does not, however, provide for such fines against employers who have broken the law by hiring the illegals...
Immigration · Mon, 05/22/2006 - 09:26 · · Importance: 1
Independent, in-depth coverage of immigration, politics, and media bias since 2002. Also: multiculturalism, Los Angeles, California, privacy, and occasionally celebrities and wacky humor...
If you can't find what you're looking for, see the About page or use the navigation features to the right.
Atom feed · RSS 2.0 feed · RSS 0.91 feed · WML
Immigration 2008a · Immigration 2007b · Immigration 2007a · Immigration · Immigration (6/05 to 12/05) · Immigration (1/05 to 6/05) · Immigration (8/04 to 12/04) · Immigration (before 8/04) · Immigration & Terrorism · Immigration & Driver's Licenses · Immigration & Consuls · Immigration & Media Bias · Immigration & Europe · North American Union
Blogging Across America
MultiCulti Madness ·
General Politics ·
Privacy ·
Miscellaneous ·
The "Peace" Movement
Los Angeles ·
California ·
Outdoors and sports ·
Celebrities ·
Wackiness ·
Inside Blogging
Iraq ·
Beltway Sniper ·
Terrorism & Extremism ·
The Saudis ·
Warblogging ·
War On Drugs
Comments
Buried in more than 600 pages of legistion! That is incredible to me!
Check this out:
ANYONE CAUGHT AND CONVICTED OF HIRING AN ILLEGAL ALIEN WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SHALL HAVE AN ICE-PICK STUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS FOREHEAD.
See what I mean?...It doesn't take 600 pages to write a law!
Posted by: boofugg at May 22, 2006 2:23 PM
as a guy who has lost 4 jobs in 15 years becuase of aliens, and becuase most of the world wants work done for nothing but gas money, this would make total sense given that most of our government are owned by others!
if you just say no i am sure that all of this will go away, like the bill of rights and our borders and someday your life!
what the enemy ( read senate ) really wants is for you to disappear and the rest of you to keep believing that you have rights and duties, becuase soon the former USA And the drug dealers in mexico city will become one big hell for all who are not at the top. see your enemy for what he is.
Posted by: Fred Dawes at May 22, 2006 1:04 PM