Queue Captain Obvious.
It’s Cue dummy.
Driving into work I was listening to info about a study about whether is was better to pull a bandage off slow or fast. Turned out fast was best. Again common sense, but we must study it anyway.
AMNESTY is set to be introduced in the House of Reps today.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/12/14/2150785.aspx
“House proponents of comprehensive immigration reform are set to unveil an ambitious bill Tuesday that calls for a pathway to legalization for illegal immigrants, family reunification policies and another push for the controversial AgJOBS program, which would grant temporary immigration status to undocumented farm workers,” Roll Call reports. “Some backers of the bill, sponsored by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), readily admit the measure is their ideal version of reform and is not likely to be what ultimately would pass into law. In contrast to their efforts in 2007, when they unsuccessfully pushed a bipartisan package, advocates are kicking off debate this time with a solidly Democratic plan… Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is taking the lead on the issue in the Senate, but his plan is expected to be far less liberal and to include some GOP support. Even though the Senate is likely to move first on the issue, after Schumer unveils his bill early next year, House lawmakers are ready to get the ball rolling now.”
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A note from Mike Cutler:
He explains why AMNESTY will not work and will create more problems than we can deal with!
“There is no way that our beleaguered adjudicators at USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) the agency that would administer this insane program would be able to reliably know anything about the millions of illegal aliens who would undoubtedly seek to acquire lawful immigrant status and ultimately, United States citizenship through Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
They have no official documentation to substantiate their true names or even their true nationalities. Therefore there would be no reliable way of determining if these illegal aliens whose simple presence in our country represents a violation of our nation’s laws and borders, are fugitives from justice in other countries. There would be no reliable way of knowing if these illegal aliens are affiliated with criminal or terrorist organizations.
There would also not be any reliable way of knowing when these illegal aliens entered the United States. They will have, no doubt, used one or more, stolen or fictitious identities, making it all but impossible to know when, where or how they actually entered the United States without conduction a field investigation. Yet with the huge numbers of illegal aliens involved and the small number of agents available to deal with the onslaught of applications, all that would be done is a “background check.”
As I have noted on so many previous occasions a background check does not entail having investigators knocking on doors and interviewing those who might know these illegal aliens. A background check would simply require that the applicant’s fingerprints and name he (she) provides on the application be run through a computerized database. If the fingerprints come up “clean,” that is to say does not match any known criminal and if the name provided by the applicant is fictitious, then the system would automatically deem the alien to be okay for a temporary identity document that would immediately enable that alien to apply for and receive a Social Security card, a driver’s license and other such documents.”
“Now here is the really insane part of the proposal for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. This is not speculation but actually occurred in the wake of the Amnesty of 1986.
When aliens who had previously been illegally present in the United States were granted lawful status, they were no longer exploitable. In many cases these previously illegal aliens approached their employers and told them that they would certainly want to continue working for them but that they now wanted to be paid prevailing wages. They wanted the appropriate deductions taken from their salaries. They wanted to be compensated appropriately for working overtime and on weekends.
In short, these previously vulnerable aliens were no longer vulnerable and demanded fair and equitable treatment by their employers. In many of these instances, guess what happened? The employers fired these now legal aliens and hired the next wave of illegal aliens!
Now stop and ask yourself the very obvious question: “What would happen if 10 million or 20 million legalized aliens demanded proper wages and working conditions?”
If you guessed they would be fired, you would be right! The unscrupulous employers would not go without cheap exploitable labor, however, they would simply seek to hire the next wave of illegal aliens who would easily run our porous borders hoping that they would ultimately take advantage of the next amnesty!
How much would unemployment and welfare cost our government to care for the newly unemployed legalized aliens?
How much would this further drive wages down as too many workers would be forced to chase far too few jobs?
Incidentally, how many of the displaced workers would be members of the various minority groups in the United States?
Comprehensive Immigration Reform is nothing more than an attempt to grab political power by politicians who do not give a damn about anything or anyone but themselves and their quest for power!”
Real geniuses to figure out that if a country loses a lot of its low paid/unenployed, unhappy people, it might be a good thing. Sure, you may need to pay a bit more to get their lawn mowed, but they’ll survive.