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| Immigration: Is the Bush Admin Serious?; About Employer Sanctions | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 19 2006, 05:27 PM (90 Views) | |
| QuirtEvans | Jun 19 2006, 05:27 PM Post #1 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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From the Washington Post: The Bush administration, which is vowing to crack down on U.S. companies that hire illegal workers, virtually abandoned such employer sanctions before it began pushing to overhaul U.S. immigration laws last year, government statistics show. Between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled back 95 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which subsequently was merged into the Homeland Security Department. The number of employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003, and fines collected declined from $3.6 million to $212,000, according to federal statistics. In 1999, the United States initiated fines against 417 companies. In 2004, it issued fine notices to three. The rest of the article is here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6061800613.html |
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| JBryan | Jun 19 2006, 06:11 PM Post #2 |
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I am the grey one
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I find the Bush administration to be completely unserious about enforcement of any kind in spite of their rhetoric to the contrary. |
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| George K | Jun 19 2006, 06:23 PM Post #3 |
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Finally
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What he said: Though the Bush Administration is deadly serious about some things, true reform of immigration and it's laws, as well as fiscal restraint are not two of them. |
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| Rick Zimmer | Jun 19 2006, 06:33 PM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Of course Bush is not serious about employer sanctions any more than he is serious about border security. The way the National Guard is being used -- after all of his hullabaloo over it -- points that out. He prmosied Vicente Fox that he would get the undocumented workers legalized. He also, I think, realizes how much it would havel help the GOP politically with the growing Hispanic voters of they had been the ones to champion this. This latter advantage, however, has likely been lost to the GOP because of the in-fighting in the party. However, I have to agree with George about the lack of seriousness in overall immigration reform. As strongly as I feel about how to handle the undocumented issue, one of the major problems with the legislation being debated is that it is limited to that issue. This may be as good as we can expect now and it may be the most practical things to do, but it seems to me we really do need to review our entire immigration policy and laws and perhaps revamp them all. Then the issue of undocumented workers becomes just a portion of the overall reform. |
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