enforce labor but not immigration laws

Leftwing groups complain about immigration enforcement interfering with workers' rights while supporting the situtation - 10/27/2009

... ameliorate the situation; see the enforce labor but not immigration laws page for the details. Did the far-left plan it this way, creating a situtation that serves their interest in several ways including giving them the ability to whine about the situation they helped create? It's either that, or they aren't smart enough to figure out that they're part of the problem. [1] The grou...

American Apparel to lay off quarter of workforce, presumed illegal aliens - 9/04/2009

... sweatshop down the street. See the enforce labor but not immigration laws posts; Janet Napolitano wants those workers to remain the U.S. in order to give them amnesty rather than doing her job and deporting them. It's also worth noting that AA's lawyer is/was the Mexican government-linked Peter Schey, and that actions like this by the DHS - even if they could be stronger - run counter t...

Is the ACLU's official policy to just enforce labor laws (with little or no immigration enforcement)? - 4/03/2009

... they're pushing. Namely, to enforce labor but not immigration laws; see the link for the problems with that idea. The problem is that he doesn't come right out and say that the ACLU doesn't want immigration enforcement, only that they want labor enforcement. What they want can be understood through the ACLU's long string of actions attempting to thwart most forms of immigratio...

Hilda Solis to prefer labor enforcement to immigration enforcement? (Tyche Hendricks) - 2/04/2009

Tyche Hendricks of the San Francisco Chronicle offers "Obama's labor secretary pick backs enforcement" (link); the title isn't as misleading as one might first think since Hendricks is referring to Hilda Solis's position on labor enforcement and not on immigration enforcement; Solis is especially weak on the latter. However, the goal of the article seems to be to try to se...

Villaraigosa, Dellums, Nickels don't want ICE immigration raids of "responsible employers" - 6/20/2008

If you want examples of political corruption, illegal immigration is where you should look. The latest example is a resolution proposed by three west coast mayors at this year's Conference of Mayors meeting: they don't want ICE to conduct immigration raids of "responsible employers". Instead, they want them to only raid those companies that are abusing employees and the like. T...

Drum Major Institute immigration study discredits all who support it - 1/19/2006

A "progressive" think tank called the Drum Major Institute ("DMI") recently released a study on immigration. In the study, they advocate for open borders, although it appears they don't realize exactly what the effects of their study would be. Under their plan, we wouldn't deport illegal aliens. Rather, we'd just make sure that they worked under the same conditio...

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