Stimulating illegal alien jobs
I’ve reported to you over the past month on Sen. Jeff Sessions’s battle to ensure that stimulus money didn’t go to illegal aliens. He fought the good fight and lost.
Now, it dawns on USA Today that — you don’t say! — the stimulus money might find hundreds of thousands of illegal alien jobs. Way to keep the American people informed in a timely and relevant manner!
Tens of thousands of jobs created by the economic stimulus law could end up filled by illegal immigrants, particularly in big states such as California where undocumented workers are heavily represented in construction, experts on both sides of the issue say.
Studies by two conservative think tanks estimate immigrants in the United States illegally could take 300,000 construction jobs, or 15% of the 2 million jobs that new taxpayer-financed projects are predicted to create.They fault Congress for failing to require that employers certify legal immigration status of workers before hiring by using a Department of Homeland Security program called E-Verify. The program allows employers to check the validity of Social Security numbers provided by new hires. It is available to employers on a voluntary basis.
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Yup. Obama wants this. He supports illegals so this can not possibly be a surprise to him.
This is completely unexpected and totally without precedent. How could the crack reporting team at USA Today have missed this?
USA Today, world news distilled and packaged for the fifth-grade reader.
Show of hands, who didn’t see this coming?
Anyone been by a construction site lately? They are at least 75% of the work force. I’d say their estimates are low, perhaps on purpose.
I can see the 10 watt bulb above their heads -brightening as we speak.
In the west, it’s more like 90%
There is evidence that illegals are leaving the country in large numbers due to the economy.
This administration can only see this as loss of voter base and has to do something about it.
And just to get your blood boiling even more, watch this.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/03/the_cost_of_illegal_alien_heal.html
All construction jobs require a workmens comp ins certificate. How the hell do these companies get workmens comp ins for people that shouldn’t even be on the payroll.
First they bankrupt the system with their right to a home. Then they close down hospitals by overfilling the emergency rooms. Now they take the stimulas money jobs. Does anyone in Washington remember who this country belongs to?
LA will be getting $120 million of porkulus that to create 10,000 new “private sector” jobs on the city government payroll. Like all the new taxes, they are temporary.
Also, if you read the porkulus bill, much of the CA money is going to build facilities to accommodate all of these illegals including dormitories.
Of course, being against this stuff makes me a bigot. I guess that makes all of my legal Mexican-American friends bigots too because they agree with me.
Just taking money the us taxpayers don’t want.
Who knew “D’uh” would become the word best used to describe our federal government.
Craig, here in VA its about 100%, but I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt.
How about spitting out the “CRAP sandwitch” if you are looking for a job…
and see the workforce looking a little suspect…..
CALL “I C E” and start b!tch!ng….
With enough call’s they may get the “HINT”……..
Oh my quote of the day. “The bright shining light on the hill has been replaced by a dimbulb, environmentally friendly of course”
They see what we see. They just don’t care.
What is $1.3 tillion in pesos?
This congress and this President are doing an awful job. This administration is incompetent!
Oh, but they are nice people……..
We are rapidly reaching the point where American citizens will have to stand up and fight for their country at home. We have a one party political system that is completely at odds with voters and yet we cannot vote them out without a virtual clone replacing them.
I am trying to research the Armistad case to figure out what Constitutional provisions provided slaves with the right to insurrection. Does anyone know? It seems pertinent to the situation we find ourselves in.
Perhaps I’m a little slow, but why is is that almost everyone in government & the MSM are so clueless? I can’t grasp how they fail to grasp how stupid they are. In S. FL, many illegals have been going home due to the economy. No doubt this bone headed hand out will keep them here. I’m sure their home countries of Mexico, Guatamala et al, are toilets. I do feel sorry for them, but that’s not my problem. Preserving, protecting & improving MY country is my problem.
Business as usual. Dems needs to protect their voting block.
I still say the people should be able to take direct class action through the courts to hamstring Congress. This “democratic” electoral process is crap, it’s a joke. By the time you can get them out of office, if you can, they’ve robbed the house and kidnapped the baby.
These politicians are bad people and they need to be brought to heel. Direct concerted action is our only option given the disfunctional condition of the system. The permanent fix is constitutional amendments to pen the government in, but fat chance of that.
Hey Charlie Rangel! Is this any of our g**damn business?
(I never do anything without conferring with a Democrat – I mean, ever see a democrat go to prison for anything they’ve done since Dan Rostenkowski?)
Off topic, but relevant:
I went into a convenience store last week. I was the only person there except for the two girls working there. They were yapping away in Spanish, which is both rude and annoying. As I was paying, I said “thank you” in Russian. The girl wating on me snapped her head around and said “huh” ( not que), just good ole fashioned American “huh”. It was hilarious.
I suggest going on line and learning a few words other than Spanish or English for just such occasions. It may not solve anything, but it is mischeviously satisfying.
300m residents in the u.s., and 12 to 20 million illegals or 4% to nearly 7% of our population is illegal. we have 7.8% unemployment, and just over 12 million on unemployment ( i know the numbers don’t make sense, because they come from the government) which seems to me to say that if our justice department were doing it’s job we would have full employment. but hey, the american gubmint way is to let it’s employees not do their jobs, then they have to hire more employees to do the job the other employees aren’t doing. notice i don’t call them workers.
Trust me……..CALL!!!!!…. Burn up the phone lines………
Not everyone at “I C E” has their head in the sand…….
The people working in Washington DC NO LONGER CARE about the Citizens who TRUSTED them enough to vote them into office.
OUR GOVERMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL!
The Honest question we all need to ask ourselves is this : Who works for who? And How Long are we going to ALLOW it to CONTINUE? I’m DONE!
Have them build the southern side of the border fence…
Evidently, George Soros, his puppet Obama and the Democrats.
Noone can answer that. Mexico doesn’t have than many pesos.
Who woulda tunk it? Heck, this “stimlus” nonsense is stimulating construciton and blue collar jobs primarily. There isn’t anyhting in there for tech workers or other skilled jobs. So, yea, you can bet illegals will get many of the jobs. WHich will slow the exodus of illeglas we have been seeing. Once agian, the gov’t does the exact oppostie if what is best for the nation.
By the way, in my previous post, I was not calling for violent overthrow of the government. There is a legal process we can use that involves getting off of our behinds and out into the streets. Our congressmen live among us and we have to get in their faces. We need to protest and those who can, need to run for office. We need to get around this one-party system somehow.
A big part of it is to tune out all of the Republican mouthpieces like Hannity and make it a non-partisan movement. That was the “big tent” idea Reagan promoted, the idea that conservative principles were widely shared by ordinary Americans and so the GOP should open the country club to make room for those who shared our principles. This is the diametric opposite of the new GOP strategy to fill the big tent by arguing that because the party doesn’t stand for anything anymore, there is no risk that anyone will be offended.
This is too important to get ensnared in petty partisan politics rhetoric. We need to win the hearts and minds of the very people who make our society work and who now find themselves in the cross hairs of government across the board.
Cheapseat: regarding your comment #24.
Yesterday, it was reported that arrests at the border were down to 1976 levels. That is nothing to shout about. Arrests last year were around 500,000. They only nab about 25% of those who try to cross. That means that 1.5 million are still successful. The problem may be abating, but the numbers are still astoundingly bad.
Didn’t Republican members of congress try to add that to the bill?!
pasadena phil, and the sad fact is that the legal citizens of every state, especially california, are being forced to leave because our government won’t address the problem. when people start acting as luckydog suggests, or taking matters into their own hands and confronting business owners directly and picketting their workplaces, then maybe the police, city council, mayor and governor of a state will take notice. quiet acquiescence has gotten us to this point. time to change attitudes and tactics.
Back when I was working for a living, the Hispanics (all US native-born) would routinely chat in Spanish. Finally I ended up working with another ex-Germany vet, and we started chatting in German. The first thing that happened was that one of the Hispanics complained because he couldn’t understand what we were saying.
Well, at least Harry Reid will be delighted to know that
“undocumented Americans” will be bailed out by Porkulus.
That’s because we need to increase the illegals and move more people from the middle class into the poverty class. That way there will be more Democrat votes, because they “help” the poor.
In the aftermath of Katrina, many workers were imported from the Southeast to help with the clearing and rebuilding. They ended up returning home because the illegals were getting all the jobs.
But they’re just doing the work Americans won’t do.
At least not without decent pay, benefits, and worker’s comp.
Black slaves used to do the work that Americans won’t do before the Civil War (also known as “pathway to citizenship for blacks”).
We still have the 2 Americas, comprised of those who vote for the nanny state protecting dems and those who don’t but have to pick up the tab.
I hope that all the journalists who failed to do accurate reporting and become unemployed because noone reads their papers will enjoy seeing illegals working on road crews.
even with HB 1804 here in Oklahoma, the companies just skirt the law by bringing in illegals from the surrounding states..with rare exception the vast majority of the workers are hispanic and of questionable legal status.
By the way…..
Funding for e-Verify is set to expire on 11 March 2009.
Neither Obama or his Homeland Security Chief, Janet Napolitano, have asked for it to be extended.
I think they’re coming here to Mexinois–seems like more and more all the time–but who’s counting.
Wondering which state will become the 1st cess pool after it is over run with illegals and the hard working American tax paying citizens move out to another state… Kallifornia or Arizona?
We already have 10% of the population of Mexico illegally living in the USA. The drug wars and rather close to zero border enforcement will shift those numbers even higher.
Auggie you are wrong . you don’t need a workman’s comp certificate to work construction at least not in residential. Another thing, its not “unscrupulous” contractors who hire these guys to work for them, a large percentage have thier own businesses, bring in thier countrymen, pay low wages and depress the wages of people like me because i am constantly being undercut on the bids i give out.
All of you need to get all over your state legislatures to pass a law like the one we passed in 2007 here in Arizona … the state law requires all employers to use E-Verify to avoid liability should they be caught wth illegal aliens on their payroll … the state law does not make any exception in any industry nor does it exempt a federally funded project … it applies to the employer regardless of the work being done … failure to do so exposes the employer to fines and a loss of their business license …
If you can’t get your legislature to act then you need to start a petition drive to get it on the next ballot and work to pass it … that is what we did here in Arizona …
I know Oklahoma also passed some tough laws regarding all of this as well … so that law might also reveal some ideas of what you can do at the grass-roots level …
Rightisright (#44)…I am betting on Kallifornia. In my home state of Idaho, we are already seeing thousands of Californians moving in to escape the hell hole that is developing in California. Montana, Oregon, and other states are are also feeling the impact of immigration from California. Our arrogant politicians are either too stupid or corrupt or both to halt the invasion of illegal aliens. We had better figure out how to do it ourselves, and soon.
Why doesn’t Congress require businesses to verify a person’s legal status in this country? Because the Liberals all say that to do so would be violating people’s personal rights and privacy.
There is just one thing that these people in Congress have forgotten in their quest for Political Correctness. They have all taken an oath. They took an Oath of Office for their particular elected position. That OATH was to uphold the Constitution. They have also, while embarking on this misguided quest, forgotten the the Constitution of the United States of America, and with it the Bill of Rights, ONLY APPLY TO AMERICAN CITIZENS.
What that means is, if you are here ILLEGALLY, if you are NOT and AMERICAN CITIZEN, then that Constitution, and along with it those Rights outlined therein, DO NOT APPLY TO YOU!
Therefore, to claim that it would be violating rights that do not exist is merely a scapegoat and a justification they have come up with for violating their oath and, yes, breaking the laws governing ILLEGAL Immigrants that are already on the books.
We don’t need new laws. We do not require any more debate on this issue. What we need are real, honest to God men and women with spines who will not be intimidated or pushed around by Liberal P.C. thugs and other associated Liberals. We need honest to God LOYAL AMERICANS to stand up for what is right in this country, to honor their oaths, to honor the millions and millions of hard working men and women who, just based on the very nature of the fact that these “elected officials” turn their backs on countless violations of the law, follow the law, do what is right and actually do have morals, values and consciences.
Is there anyone left with a soul in Washington? Is there anyone with a backbone that is not the color of…well, lemonaide?
So far, there has not been in a very long time. The number of citizens in this country who would support the strict implementation of the laws already on the books far outnumber those that do not, especially since the vast numbers that do not are not even permitted by law to be in opposition as they are not even citizens of this country.
Excellent, we need more Hispanic cook’s and landscapers.
Sorry California, Oregon and Washington, you asked for it, you got it. Now stay there and reap what you sowed.
I think maybe Arnold needs to build a ‘Berlin Wall’ on the Nevada/Az border to keep the libs in place and not let them escape and contaminate the rest of us.