[Diogenesis]

The Senate PIMPS have already taken money by contractors
etc. to ram this bill through. They must perform
for their johns.

Having already SOLD America (illegal, but ignored),
the Senate PIMPS MUST continue, or the contractors
will either want their money back, or will get
even other ways.

[TLI]

or the contractors will either want their money back, or will get even other ways.

Hope so. It would be interesting to see who the puppet masters really are.

[angkor]

Not just the contractor trade groups, but also K Street lobbyists and other heavyweight trade groups representing meatpacking, fast food, restaurants, florists, home building, and every other employer of low-skill and semi-skill labor in the U.S. They want to keep their supply of unedcated, unskilled, non-English speaking peasant labor.

But they are very much allied with other K Street "advocates" and unions (aka, even more lobbyists) who need new members and victims .... errrr ... "clients" (e.g., American Immigration Lawyers Assoc.).

These leeches all expect Congress to deliver what they demand in exchange for election votes and PAC money and God knows what else.

As reported last week:

Interest groups pushing for the bill said Democrats were supposed to deliver 35 votes and Republicans were supposed to deliver 25. "From our point of view we did our job, and from our point of view the Republicans didn't," said Frank Sharry, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, which wants a bill that offers a path to citizenship to illegal aliens.

Bush seeks immigration action
The Washington Times
June 9, 2007
Stephen Dinan

[ovrtaxt]

The Senate PIMPS have already taken money by contractors etc. to ram this bill through. They must perform for their johns.

No doubt, this bill is a DOG.

[varon]

The Senate PIMPS have already taken money by contractors etc. to ram this bill through. They must perform for their johns.

Legalizing the 600,000 illegal felons and the ones who have been ordered by courts to be deported, the Senate will be preserving the distribution network for the drug cartels!!!

[Robert A Cook PE]

But the classic “big business wants cheap (illegal) labor” argument fails completely:

IF illegal labor is cheaper than legal labor (and it is!) then it is ONLY cheaper because the workers are illegal and face deportation/prison if they are discovered.

IF amnesty passes, THEY ARE LEGAL, and have NO incentive to work for cheap wages -> they immediately WILL DEMAND at elast full minimum wage, if not skilled wages for bricklayer, concrete finishing, carpenter, truck driver/fork lift operator, etc. So the ONLY low wages jobs left are those that require no skills and no training - and those wages go up (at least!) to minimum wage, or to union-wages as soon as the unions begin organizing the hotel cleaners, laundry, restaurant/cooks, etc. And those positions for the most part are small business owned anyway - NOT a big political contributor, though the combined mass of small businesses add up to a large employer base.

Worse, AS SOON AS the (present) illegals are legal (on visa’s) there is actually NO incentive to keep working: welfare is available and gives a higher “Wage” than employment. Sure, welfare won’t be forever, but they only need two-three years on welfare, with their families up here anyway, to get a nest egg.

Worse, for businesses, is the “threat” and extortion of irritated workers who will turn in their current “slave-owners” for violations of social security wages, taxes, unemployment taxes, and sub-minimum wages.