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Immigration Theater
Wall Street Journal ^ | 24 May 2008 | Editorial Staff

Posted on 05/24/2008 3:40:59 PM PDT by shrinkermd

Federal immigration officials raided an Iowa meatpacking plant this month... Nearly 400 of the plant's 900 employees were arrested on immigration charges. Do you feel safer?

Ever since immigration reform died in Congress last year, the Bush Administration has made a show of stepping up enforcement. But do homeland security officials really have nothing better to do than raid businesses that hire willing workers – especially in states like Iowa, where the jobless rate is 3.5%? These immigrants are obviously responding to a labor shortage for certain jobs. Giving them a legal way to enter the country would free up homeland security money and manpower to focus on real threats.

Meanwhile, back in Washington, lawmakers continue to ignore this economic reality and pretend that illegal immigration is nothing more than a law enforcement issue. The good news is that their latest attempt to turn employers into immigration police appears to have stalled.

The Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act (SAVE) was introduced by Heath Shuler, a North Carolina Democrat. The bill does nothing to increase legal immigration, which is the only realistic way to decrease illegal immigration. Instead, it throws more money at a mandatory employment verification system (E-Verify) for the nation's six million employers.

The Democrats never intended to pass the measure, mind you. While collecting co-sponsors, Mr. Shuler assured Democrats there would be no action this year.

Rahm Emanuel, the Blue Dog patron in the House leadership, told reporters that a recent Congressional Budget Office report had given him pause. The CBO estimated SAVE would cost more that $30 billion in lost tax revenues and spending because it would increase the number of employers and workers who resort to the black market outside of the tax system.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; congress; freestuff; illegals; immigrantlist; immigration; mugwhores; save
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1 posted on 05/24/2008 3:41:00 PM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: shrinkermd
and so, the drum beat continues.... driven on the right by pro-business at any cost, sovereignty be damned RINOs and from the left by those who believe "no human is illegal".

It's enough to make me want to throw up when I realize we're going to have "comprehensive immigration reform" whether it's good for the country or not.

2 posted on 05/24/2008 3:53:37 PM PDT by Lloyd227 (and may God bless Oriana Fallaci)
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To: shrinkermd

WSJ = Wage Suppression Journal


3 posted on 05/24/2008 3:53:46 PM PDT by Shermy (Nightmares From My Pastor, A Story of Race and Insanity)
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To: Liz; calcowgirl; Calpernia; indylindy; AuntB; Tennessee Nana; pissant; SoConPubbie; bcsco; ...


4 posted on 05/24/2008 3:59:38 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

All Pool Boyz to dress in prison orange. It goes with my inflatable ducky... :)


5 posted on 05/24/2008 4:03:03 PM PDT by bcsco (To heck with a third party. We need a second one....)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

You big nut. ROTFLMAO! Geesh, too funny.

I needed a good laugh.


6 posted on 05/24/2008 4:03:46 PM PDT by dforest (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: shrinkermd

I am reaffirmed on a regular basis that my cancellation of my WSJ subscription was a good move..


7 posted on 05/24/2008 4:06:31 PM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: shrinkermd
If this was 1860, the WSJ would be editorializing for letting the South secede because slavery was such a wonderful base of the economy. These kinds economic whores are why the GOP is sliding into oblivion ---just like its predecessor the Whigs!
8 posted on 05/24/2008 4:08:51 PM PDT by texican01
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To: shrinkermd
Do you feel safer?

No, this is an important job and someone competent should really be doing the job of enforcement, not an incompetent fool like certioff.

9 posted on 05/24/2008 4:17:16 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Giving them a legal way to enter the country
_________________________________________

DUH

They already have “a legal way to enter the country”

It’s called IMMIGRATION..

WOW

Wadid I win ???????????


10 posted on 05/24/2008 4:22:20 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

and Obama is going to continue to build the fence and stop the amnesty train.....not
Looks like that is what you want since there are two candidates.

Since some folks didn’t want the true fighter against illegals, Hunter we have two choices.

Third party always brings in the democrat, only Obama will be the second term of Carter only worse.


11 posted on 05/24/2008 4:29:54 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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To: Tennessee Nana
DUH

They already have “a legal way to enter the country”

It’s called IMMIGRATION...

I honestly can't decide which of the two is the more hysterically falling-down funny, ultimately: the fact that they genuinely seem to believe that we actually don't KNOW that... or the pinched, patrician, put-upon air paid amnesty shills unfailingly affect, while laboriously attempting to "teach" us otherwise. ;)

12 posted on 05/24/2008 4:33:27 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: SoCalPol
Looks like that is what you want

Why waste even a moment of my time on anyone openly admitting to reading for comprehension so spectacularly poorly, then?

13 posted on 05/24/2008 4:35:38 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: shrinkermd

> These immigrants are obviously responding to a labor shortage for certain jobs.<

That’s where I stopped reading.


14 posted on 05/24/2008 4:37:41 PM PDT by Califreak (Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
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To: shrinkermd

The elites at the WSJ don’t want to lose their nannies, landscapers, and pool boys. And they certainly don’t want to see employers fined or jailed for employing illegals, which would solve the problem.


15 posted on 05/24/2008 4:43:23 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Califreak
> These immigrants are obviously responding to a labor shortage for certain jobs.

Isn't this precisely the same rationale liberals have been providing for over four decades now, re: "economically distressed urban youth" and drug pushing...? ;)

16 posted on 05/24/2008 4:43:49 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: shrinkermd

It doesn’t matter whether the workers are “willing”, what matters is that they are “illegal”. What is it about identity theft (and other crimes) that the WSJ doesn’t understand???


17 posted on 05/24/2008 4:51:45 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; 7.62 x 51mm; ..

ping


18 posted on 05/24/2008 4:59:55 PM PDT by gubamyster
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To: SoCalPol
I am just praying for a good VP choice by McQueeg, other than that we are so screwed! Even that is small consolation for what we face.
19 posted on 05/24/2008 5:13:31 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Hi TN, I have to laugh at the folks who didn’t want to support Duncan Hunter, the only candidate who has the history and currently fighting the illegals and all that goes with it.

Now they whine and try to dig up some third party hack.


20 posted on 05/24/2008 5:14:28 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Don't Blame Me - I Supported Duncan Hunter)
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