Posted on 12/14/2005 5:57:12 PM PST by AZRepublican
Ditto's to the National Policy Institute.
The quislings will be furious.
Ditto.
Just curious - What is the stance of the Unions on this? Big Dem supporters - but to their mode of thinking, immigrants would seem to keep wages low. I'm not informed on the economics of it - but could it put them in a political bind?
We need a President who will enforce existing immigration laws, not a lackey to Mexico and the OBL.
I used to think so too, but Unions are looking down the road about this. Yes, it hurt their dues paying workers to have illegals around, but they stopped giving a crap about worker wages long ago. Now it's all about union DUES.
The Unions will organize the illegals, dreaming of the days of Julio Chavez. They have visions of MILLIONS of new dues-payers added to their coffers.
Just a thought, but is their real concern the "workers", or just how many dues paying members they have, and therefore influence they can peddle?
It depends on if you are talking to the Union leadership or the Union rank and file. The Union Leadership sees the illegals as a source of new dues paying members to fund their corruption and fatten the wallets. The rank and file sees the illegals as job competition. The Union Leadership has been shafting the rank and file for a long time and they must kind of enjoy it because they never do anything about it.
GMTA
Ooops, make that Cesar Chavez...
Somehow I'm disinclined to think illegals have much influence on the labor union front, one way or another.
But there is a very valid point made, that legal immigrants, who often wait years, and jump through all sorts of hoops to get here, only to get here and find their hopes for a job dashed by illegals.
Action Alerts
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Action: Call Congress on Torture, Patriot Act, Immigration
CAIR ACTION ALERT #481
"In reassessing the cost, the following analysis
compares and contrasts what an amnesty would cost taxpayers in
terms of social services, lost wages, health care subsidies, and
educational expenditures. The author concludes that comparative
estimates demonstrate “no matter how high the costs of
deporting illegal aliens may seem, the costs of not deporting them
are larger still.”"
I used to work in the HQ of the US Customs & Border Patrol. Everyone knew that the US could seal the borders in a heart beat if there were any political will to do so from the top.
There was none. And there is not much now.
The basic story on this stuff is that the leadership of both the republican and democratic parties would sell the US into Mexican slavery in a heart beat if they could just get away with it. The top republicans are looking for cheap labor and the top democrats are looking for cheap votes.
The rank and file of both parties just despise the whole mess.
So we'll get some crappy bs that just kicks the can down the road and will make for increadible problems for the USA in a couple decades. We'll get the political equivalent of the 3/5ths compromise.
Heaven help the USA.
Yeah, that's sort of my point in a way. The union members are likely to be more "anti-immigrant" than the union leadership. At some point they'll realize the leadership has a conflict of interest. I grew up in a blue-collar area, and those guys know a raw deal when they see one. Expressions like "sold down the river" come to mind (steel towns always had a river or two).
"We believe that neither the pro- nor the anti-immigration groups are
asking the right questions. Neither side has assessed the costs of maintaining the
status quo, i.e., the annual costs of an immigration policy that refuses to either
stem the influx of illegal aliens or deport illegals already here."
*gulp*
<< CAIR isn't going to be crazy about it either. >>
Gee, you would think they'd want to leave here since they think we're a bunch or torturers.
The real definition of torture is listening to CAIR rhetoric.
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