[GCFL-discuss] Bush in the Desert

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

My husband is an employer less than 90 miles from the US-Mexican border.  He 
is required by law to have potential employees provide a minimum of US 
government documents before they can be hired.  The men produce the 
documents.  He hires them and they work.  Seems like all is well, doesn't 
it?  Well, it's not.  When news gets around that there is a temporary border 
patrol station set up along a route that his employees must travel, some 
employees might choose to stay home or go to a different jobsite that day. 
Isn't that a curiosity?  My husband has done the job the government requires 
him to do -- he examines and documents the documents the potential employee 
provides.  Who is supposed to police this matter of checking the documents 
to make sure they are genuine?  It is surely not my husband's job -- he is 
an employer, not a policeman.  And besides, the documents they provide 
appear genuine.
When you say "focus on employers", which employers are you talking about? 
The ones who follow the law?  Or those that hire and pay cash?  Or who?  Who 
are these massive corporations you refer to?  Name them.  I think it is a 
crime to pay someone less than they are entitled to.  Everyone deserves fair 
compensation, no matter their citizenship.  People are people.
Jeanene
A child born with Hydranencephaly is one of Life's Little Miracles.
They live, laugh, and love -- all without a brain.
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----- Original Message ----- 
> Now here is where I find Bush awfully weak: immigration enforcement has
> to focus on employers. Immigration has, for the last 100 years at least,
> been fostered primarily by large corporate employers seeking cheap labor,
> who happily facilitate entry and provide jobs to people they know are
> vulnerable and won't complain, or even demand minimum wage. If the
> employers are not socked with massive fines that would cripple their
> profitability, and maybe jail sentences for executives too, then this is
> never going to stop. A good way to do this is to provide amnesty to
> undocumented immigrants who provide credible evidence that leads to
> successful prosecution of their employers.
>
> Siarlys