Labor, business leaders making progress on guest-worker program for illegal immigrants
The two sides said they have agreed to three principles. The first is that American workers should have the first crack at all jobs, and the second would provide a new visa that “does not keep all workers in a permanent temporary status, provides labor mobility . . . and that automatically adjusts as the American economy expands and contracts.”
The third principle is a call for a new, quasi-independent federal bureau that would monitor employment statistics and trends to inform Congress about where to set visa caps for foreign workers each year.
A spokesman for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is helping lead talks in the Senate, praised the union-business negotiations while also criticizing Obama for not endorsing a guest-worker program.
“It’s good the unions have recognized there must be a workable visa program for lesser-skilled workers as we reform our legal immigration system,” Rubio spokesman Alex Conant said.
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This always has been an unholy alliance between leftists who want illegal amigo voters and corporatists who seek to undermine the fair market price for labor.
And to members of unions: Guess what, the union bosses care more about electing leftists than YOUR interests. The AFL-CIO represents the democrat party, not their members.
wildcat72 on February 22, 2013 at 1:03 PM
Geez, get a room with Christie, will ya?
Who is going to hold the magic wand for this impending debacle?
If only American workers could be held to this standard. The way it works now, when the economy tanks they just want more and more money, nobody gets laid off and they blame their dire straits on the rich.
fogw on February 22, 2013 at 1:12 PM
I clearly have a different definition of progress than the one Wapo is using. To them, progress is another word for amnesty.
So realistically that means never. The unemployment rate is way higher than the administration would like us to believe and tens of millions of people are desperately seeking employment. And we need millions of uneducated foreign workers because….?
HotAirian on February 22, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Sure, labor/business scrooming you, royally, together.
To Hades with both. They ruin you and the land.
Schadenfreude on February 22, 2013 at 1:14 PM
It’s just as fallacious to associate corporations with free enterprise as it is to associate labor unions with protecting workers.
wildcat72 on February 22, 2013 at 1:36 PM
Yeah all of you poor b sterds that make up the 15% unemployed can go pound sand
ChunkyLover on February 22, 2013 at 1:37 PM
What nonsense.
They have the same “requirement” for H1-B visas, but companies find so easy to evade that in many places you have H1-B “body shops” where 19 workers are visa holders, with one American “Beard” worker to give them cover. Meanwhile the real unemployment rate is North of 20%.
Rebar on February 22, 2013 at 1:55 PM
why do you hate corporate America’s right to make a profit? Are you a communist?
lostmotherland on February 22, 2013 at 2:36 PM
We already have enough uneducated immigrants from 3rd world countries who come here legally every year. Some of them moved to Alabama and took jobs to replace the illegal aliens that fled. Alabama’s law created opportunity for LEGAL immigrants at the expense of illegal aliens. That’s a win win!
Wigglesworth on February 22, 2013 at 2:38 PM
Fool, why do you support making profits illegally?
Schadenfreude on February 22, 2013 at 2:57 PM
Also, fool, your president supports all this and is very deep with the corporate and financial swine, like no other ever was. Lif is good, for him.
Schadenfreude on February 22, 2013 at 2:59 PM
Companies find it easy to scam the system, because lawyers give seminars telling them how to do it.
I remember seeing a video a few years ago, in which a lawyer from a large immigration law firm was giving a presentation for in-house corporate lawyers on how to meet the legal requirements for proving that the company was unable to hire an American for their available jobs. He carefully explained how to word the advertisement so fewer Americans would be likely to apply, in which kinds of papers to place the ad so fewer Americans would be likely to see the ad, where and how to conduct the interviews so fewer Americans would be likely to show up, etc.
It will be the same with the new amnesty law. There will be all sorts of seemingly strict (on paper) requirements for illegal aliens to learn English, pay back taxes, etc. But, just like with current immigration laws, and with every past amnesty, it will all be a complete sham in actual practice. Within 24 hours of passage of a new amnesty law, there will be hundreds of La Raza-trained lawyers down here in the border areas teaching the illegals how to evade, scam, apply for waivers, etc.
AZCoyote on February 22, 2013 at 3:47 PM
Two Party Evil Money Cult
Co-enablers
Unions
GNN (Goebbles News Networks)
Incest by McCain/Rubio
On Unions:
“Code Welders Union” Tulsa Oklahoma.
They help fake Union work records for fake ID Mexican illegal immigrants so that they can work them at $25.00 an hour, $25.00 less than the $50.00 for real citizens. Down from higer 4 years ago.
At some job sites on High Pressure Natural Gas Pipe Lines (say pump stations) where their is a fenced secured work site.
The Union guys allow the local “Mexican Coyote” to run the area gate. He collects the “border jumping fee” weekly, he collects the keep quite fees weekley, he also loads a hurt illegal Mexican gunt hurt in the ditching work into a pickup and the hurt guy is hauled by to Mexico and the resident coyote calls the safe house for a new wage slave.
All this comes with the required normal “kick back” to the Union Bosses of the Union in Tulas.
The low bid Contractor , withholds the SS and IRS money then later when the accounting dept. get the “no match” letter and the money back, the contractor and the union thugs split that.
High Crimes,
but the Chamber of Commerce and the commie Democrats and the RINO’s in need of Re-Election money…. well it is just the cost of doing bussiness.
Just say no.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 22, 2013 at 3:57 PM
Too,
Along the “keystone pipe line” watch the crime records of the towns.
Many many welding trucks will go missing, many of then will end up in Mexico, many end up in “illegal immigrant paint shops” get new tags off a wrecked truck new paint job and the illegal welder who helped steal it uses it on the job where the American Citizen no longer works because he can not afford a new truck.
Part of that is the ever higher cost to insure the welding trucks because of all the crime now.
The 100′ copper welding leads the welders need have to be under lock and key and often that does not work.
10 years ago welders were able to leave their trucks unguarded in motels and such, no longer true.
The Two Party Evil Money Cult in Washington D.C. are enabeing crimes on U.S. citizens just for the f’n money and power.
evil to the core
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 22, 2013 at 4:06 PM