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Friday, March 31, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
A Letter to Mike Butts, Reporter Idaho Press-Tribune
Dear Mr. Butts:
On March 12, 2006, your article “Farmers say they can’t ID illegal workers” appeared in the Idaho Press-Tribune. You apparently interviewed a number of farmers as well as a spokesman for the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, and each one pleaded ignorantly of violating the law. As always there are two sides of an issue. The view you presented exonerates everyone from their responsibilities as citizens of this country and makes it seem all right to allow illegal aliens the right to work.
In 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) made it unlawful for employers too knowingly, recruit, hire, or continue to employ illegal immigrants. You quoted Kathy Alder, a Melba farmer, “Nobody hires undocumented workers . . . I think that needs to be emphasized. The idea that everybody knows who is legal and who isn’t (is false). If they give me a document, we have to assume that’s a legal document and that they’re eligible for work . . . We just don’t have the tools to determine whether or not that document is legal.”
Who should know whether a document is legal or false or why allow it to be used?
Therein is the real story.
You should realize that the amnesty allowed by the IRCA is partially responsible for the 20 million or more illegal aliens in the United States today. It didn’t take long for foreigners to realize that the United States was not going to enforce its laws, because many special interest groups were pressuring the government to relax enforcement measures. President’s and
Congressmen bent to their pressure and did everything in their power to thwart the law. What was a poor, unskilled, alien to do? There is safety in numbers so they came, and are still coming, in a silent invasion of thousands per day.
Our government, aids and abets these lawbreakers by allowing “safe havens” and “sanctuary cities” throughout the land, provides education for their children, health care, and a host of other benefits at no cost, except to the taxpayer. Our employers can’t get enough of these invaders, because they will accept low wages and are readily available. The poor employer cannot be held responsible for hiring an illegal alien as long as he looks at the documents and declares them to be genuine . . . as best he can tell. It is nice to know that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has created such a giant loophole for the employer and makes it appear they are really interested in enforcing the laws put forth in 1986.
That is the fiasco that the Idaho Press-Tribune should be reporting, not the plight of the poor farmer who cannot use the telephone to verify a social security number.
You were right, the USCIS requires an employer to accept documents from a prospective employee, and to fill out the I-9 form if he hires someone. The process is quite simple. The employer accepts one of ten documents from List A (Documents that establish both identity and employment eligibility), as an example an unexpired or expired U.S. Passport. If the employee
does not have a document from List A, he can then provide one item of twelve from List B (Documents that establish identity) and one item of seven from List C (Documents that establish employment eligibility). You correctly identified the most popular items from List B and List C, the driver’s license and a social security card.
As an employer you examine the driver’s license from a state (including Idaho) issuing licenses to illegal aliens. Since, most have name, date of birth, and residence and provides a picture it is legally proof you are who you are, but where does it say you are not a legal citizen of this country. Now that the employer knows you exist he can then examine the social security card. Mine has a number and my legal name. Every illegal person knows where and how to obtain a social security card that would fool even the USCIS by mere examination. Having examined the card the employer says, possibly through an interpreter, to the employee, “Now we must fill out the I-9 form.” The form has three sections: employee information and verification, the employer review and verification, and updating and reverification. The USCIS does not require a copy of this form, but requires the employer to keep it for at least 3 years if the employee remains, or for one year if the employee leaves the employer. Filling out the form is not difficult, but lying may be tough for some.
The employer knows he will not be held responsible even if the documents he examines prove false. The employee is 99.99 percent sure he will never be discovered unless he does something stupid and gets caught by the police for a felony offense. Any lesser offense, including DUI puts him back on the street before he is discovered to be an illegal alien. And, most important,
because he knows the employer is not required to send the documents he produces for examination to anyone for checking, so his little “white lie” is harmless. Brilliant bit of subterfuge provided by the USCIS to insure the illegal alien is not apprehended.
If the Kathy Alder’s, Dave Dixon’s, Marcella Stewart’s, and the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation were concerned about our country they would not proffer the excuse of not knowing a document is false, but should demand the USCIS examine and check the documents for veracity. With a simple phone call the social security number could be matched to the employee.
Sincerely,
Robert B. Murray II, Ph.D.
P.S. Comments: We need to hear from you, tell us what you are thinking!
On March 12, 2006, your article “Farmers say they can’t ID illegal workers” appeared in the Idaho Press-Tribune. You apparently interviewed a number of farmers as well as a spokesman for the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, and each one pleaded ignorantly of violating the law. As always there are two sides of an issue. The view you presented exonerates everyone from their responsibilities as citizens of this country and makes it seem all right to allow illegal aliens the right to work.
In 1986, the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) made it unlawful for employers too knowingly, recruit, hire, or continue to employ illegal immigrants. You quoted Kathy Alder, a Melba farmer, “Nobody hires undocumented workers . . . I think that needs to be emphasized. The idea that everybody knows who is legal and who isn’t (is false). If they give me a document, we have to assume that’s a legal document and that they’re eligible for work . . . We just don’t have the tools to determine whether or not that document is legal.”
Who should know whether a document is legal or false or why allow it to be used?
Therein is the real story.
You should realize that the amnesty allowed by the IRCA is partially responsible for the 20 million or more illegal aliens in the United States today. It didn’t take long for foreigners to realize that the United States was not going to enforce its laws, because many special interest groups were pressuring the government to relax enforcement measures. President’s and
Congressmen bent to their pressure and did everything in their power to thwart the law. What was a poor, unskilled, alien to do? There is safety in numbers so they came, and are still coming, in a silent invasion of thousands per day.
Our government, aids and abets these lawbreakers by allowing “safe havens” and “sanctuary cities” throughout the land, provides education for their children, health care, and a host of other benefits at no cost, except to the taxpayer. Our employers can’t get enough of these invaders, because they will accept low wages and are readily available. The poor employer cannot be held responsible for hiring an illegal alien as long as he looks at the documents and declares them to be genuine . . . as best he can tell. It is nice to know that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has created such a giant loophole for the employer and makes it appear they are really interested in enforcing the laws put forth in 1986.
That is the fiasco that the Idaho Press-Tribune should be reporting, not the plight of the poor farmer who cannot use the telephone to verify a social security number.
You were right, the USCIS requires an employer to accept documents from a prospective employee, and to fill out the I-9 form if he hires someone. The process is quite simple. The employer accepts one of ten documents from List A (Documents that establish both identity and employment eligibility), as an example an unexpired or expired U.S. Passport. If the employee
does not have a document from List A, he can then provide one item of twelve from List B (Documents that establish identity) and one item of seven from List C (Documents that establish employment eligibility). You correctly identified the most popular items from List B and List C, the driver’s license and a social security card.
As an employer you examine the driver’s license from a state (including Idaho) issuing licenses to illegal aliens. Since, most have name, date of birth, and residence and provides a picture it is legally proof you are who you are, but where does it say you are not a legal citizen of this country. Now that the employer knows you exist he can then examine the social security card. Mine has a number and my legal name. Every illegal person knows where and how to obtain a social security card that would fool even the USCIS by mere examination. Having examined the card the employer says, possibly through an interpreter, to the employee, “Now we must fill out the I-9 form.” The form has three sections: employee information and verification, the employer review and verification, and updating and reverification. The USCIS does not require a copy of this form, but requires the employer to keep it for at least 3 years if the employee remains, or for one year if the employee leaves the employer. Filling out the form is not difficult, but lying may be tough for some.
The employer knows he will not be held responsible even if the documents he examines prove false. The employee is 99.99 percent sure he will never be discovered unless he does something stupid and gets caught by the police for a felony offense. Any lesser offense, including DUI puts him back on the street before he is discovered to be an illegal alien. And, most important,
because he knows the employer is not required to send the documents he produces for examination to anyone for checking, so his little “white lie” is harmless. Brilliant bit of subterfuge provided by the USCIS to insure the illegal alien is not apprehended.
If the Kathy Alder’s, Dave Dixon’s, Marcella Stewart’s, and the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation were concerned about our country they would not proffer the excuse of not knowing a document is false, but should demand the USCIS examine and check the documents for veracity. With a simple phone call the social security number could be matched to the employee.
Sincerely,
Robert B. Murray II, Ph.D.
P.S. Comments: We need to hear from you, tell us what you are thinking!
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
There Ain't No Such Thing As CHEAP Labor?
TANSTACL (There Ain't No Such Thing As Cheap Labor) by H. Millard (c) 2005
According to a recent news report, tighter controls at the Mexican border (Huh?) have caused a shortage of strawberry pickers in Oregon. This has caused some growers to whine that they need more slaves, ah, illegal aliens, er, immigrants, or the whole friggin' world is going to collapse as the strawberries rot in the fields. It's a catastrophe of Biblical proportions. Good God! We have to open the borders and let in more illegal aliens or America is going to collapse!
The story sounds phony--probably planted by an open borders Bush operative--because there doesn't appear to be any real tightening of controls at the border. But, if true, great! Tighten that friggin' border up as tight as you can make it. Don't worry about the strawberries. They'll get picked. The growers will adapt to using American labor. Count on it.
In fact, a shortage of cheap imported labor is as good for America as pruning rose bushes is good for the roses. Unpruned rose bushes get spindly and weak, pruned ones get thick and strong. We've got enough people in this nation to produce our own home grown American berry pickers, and doing so will strengthen us as a nation. We don't need no stinkin' illegal alien berry pickers or illegal alien gardeners or illegal alien maids or illegal alien fast food workers or anything else with illegal in it. They're making us spindly and weak.
Since when did all Americans become bank presidents and computer billionaires too high and mighty to do ordinary labor? Don't we have school age kids in this nation who might like to make a little money here and there by picking berries and doing other honest, good for the mind and body, fingernail dirtying work? Have we become a nation of effete, decrepit yuppies sitting around in lounge chairs while being waited on by illegal aliens? Are we a nation of sissies afraid to do work because we think it's beneath us? All work is ennobling. Have we forgotten that?
If we cut back on immigration, both legal and illegal, there will be subtle pressures for us to start having more children to take the lower end jobs. That's the way it works. When people are needed, people are birthed. Yeah, I know, having babies is work that many Americans--and I'm speaking of European-Americans now--don't want to do anymore, so they rely on illegal aliens to do even that for them.
Of course, and this may come as a shock to some aracial Bush-brained nitwits, their babies aren't really their babies at all because only babies born with their genes are their babies. Is this too hard to understand by these dimwits?
Once we boot the illegal aliens out and thus relieve the crowding pressures we feel, we'll start feeling a need for more people and we'll make them ourselves as our subconscious minds begin bubbling up rationales for us to have kids again. If our government then helps society enable child bearing via breaks for couples who have children so that they are not penalized for having kids, as is the case now, we'll be on the way back to being a vigorous, young, and growing nation--which would be a reversal of our present trends.
Today, the U.S. may look prosperous and strong (if you don't look too closely) but our nation is being eaten away inside by insidious and corrosive parasites. And, fools that we are, we think the parasites are helping us while they supply cheap labor to this or that rich business owner while destroying the fabric of this nation. Illegal aliens are hollowing out America like termites in wood.
Welcome to post-American America in the year 2005. America is like a street of phony Hollywood movie houses that look good from the front but which are only fronts. Open the doors and go inside and there are no insides. We are a nation of middlemen and illegal aliens. Few are really producing anything of lasting value.
At the same time that we've been busy deindustrializing America by sending our factories overseas, we've been bringing in factory level illegal alien workers to America. So where do they work? They work in the fields and in service industries. Their bosses like them because they're cheap and they don't have be given medical insurance or other benefits. If they complain about poor working conditions, well, there are many other illegal aliens on street corners to replace them. And, what happens if a berry picker or service industry illegal alien gets injured or sick? You and I pay for it. Figure that into the so-called low price of strawberries. And, what about the schools that are now full of illegal aliens and their anchor children? They're in the toilet.
Libertarians say TANSTAAFL--There Ain't No Such Think As A Free Lunch. Immigration reformers might consider changing that to TANSTACL--There Ain't No Such Thing As Cheap Labor.
At the same time that we've been busy deindustrializing America by sending our factories overseas, we've been bringing in factory level illegal alien workers to America. So where do they work? They work in the fields and in service industries. Their bosses like them because they're cheap and they don't have be given medical insurance or other benefits. If they complain about poor working conditions, well, there are many other illegal aliens on street corners to replace them. And, what happens if a berry picker or service industry illegal alien gets injured or sick? You and I pay for it. Figure that into the so-called low price of strawberries. And, what about the schools that are now full of illegal aliens and their anchor children? They're in the toilet.
Libertarians say TANSTAAFL--There Ain't No Such Think As A Free Lunch. Immigration reformers might consider changing that to TANSTACL--There Ain't No Such Thing As Cheap Labor.
I know something about how this works. When I was nine years old I started picking squash, slopping hogs, shoveling cow manure and doing other things on a number of small local truck farms whenever I could wrangle a job for a few days. As I got older, I washed dishes in restaurants. Other kids in the area did the same types of things. I then worked in factories. Part of my earnings went to my parents for my room and board.
Had there been mobs of illegal aliens around, I'm sure the other kids and I would have been forced out of jobs. And, parents might have stopped having kids if the kids couldn't contribute to the household.
I know that most who are reading this, already know all of the above, but it doesn't hurt to keep repeating it in as many different voices and in as many ways as possible. You never know, maybe a different turn of phrase or two will help some of the open borders crowd finally see the truth.
According to a recent news report, tighter controls at the Mexican border (Huh?) have caused a shortage of strawberry pickers in Oregon. This has caused some growers to whine that they need more slaves, ah, illegal aliens, er, immigrants, or the whole friggin' world is going to collapse as the strawberries rot in the fields. It's a catastrophe of Biblical proportions. Good God! We have to open the borders and let in more illegal aliens or America is going to collapse!
The story sounds phony--probably planted by an open borders Bush operative--because there doesn't appear to be any real tightening of controls at the border. But, if true, great! Tighten that friggin' border up as tight as you can make it. Don't worry about the strawberries. They'll get picked. The growers will adapt to using American labor. Count on it.
In fact, a shortage of cheap imported labor is as good for America as pruning rose bushes is good for the roses. Unpruned rose bushes get spindly and weak, pruned ones get thick and strong. We've got enough people in this nation to produce our own home grown American berry pickers, and doing so will strengthen us as a nation. We don't need no stinkin' illegal alien berry pickers or illegal alien gardeners or illegal alien maids or illegal alien fast food workers or anything else with illegal in it. They're making us spindly and weak.
Since when did all Americans become bank presidents and computer billionaires too high and mighty to do ordinary labor? Don't we have school age kids in this nation who might like to make a little money here and there by picking berries and doing other honest, good for the mind and body, fingernail dirtying work? Have we become a nation of effete, decrepit yuppies sitting around in lounge chairs while being waited on by illegal aliens? Are we a nation of sissies afraid to do work because we think it's beneath us? All work is ennobling. Have we forgotten that?
If we cut back on immigration, both legal and illegal, there will be subtle pressures for us to start having more children to take the lower end jobs. That's the way it works. When people are needed, people are birthed. Yeah, I know, having babies is work that many Americans--and I'm speaking of European-Americans now--don't want to do anymore, so they rely on illegal aliens to do even that for them.
Of course, and this may come as a shock to some aracial Bush-brained nitwits, their babies aren't really their babies at all because only babies born with their genes are their babies. Is this too hard to understand by these dimwits?
Once we boot the illegal aliens out and thus relieve the crowding pressures we feel, we'll start feeling a need for more people and we'll make them ourselves as our subconscious minds begin bubbling up rationales for us to have kids again. If our government then helps society enable child bearing via breaks for couples who have children so that they are not penalized for having kids, as is the case now, we'll be on the way back to being a vigorous, young, and growing nation--which would be a reversal of our present trends.
Today, the U.S. may look prosperous and strong (if you don't look too closely) but our nation is being eaten away inside by insidious and corrosive parasites. And, fools that we are, we think the parasites are helping us while they supply cheap labor to this or that rich business owner while destroying the fabric of this nation. Illegal aliens are hollowing out America like termites in wood.
Welcome to post-American America in the year 2005. America is like a street of phony Hollywood movie houses that look good from the front but which are only fronts. Open the doors and go inside and there are no insides. We are a nation of middlemen and illegal aliens. Few are really producing anything of lasting value.
At the same time that we've been busy deindustrializing America by sending our factories overseas, we've been bringing in factory level illegal alien workers to America. So where do they work? They work in the fields and in service industries. Their bosses like them because they're cheap and they don't have be given medical insurance or other benefits. If they complain about poor working conditions, well, there are many other illegal aliens on street corners to replace them. And, what happens if a berry picker or service industry illegal alien gets injured or sick? You and I pay for it. Figure that into the so-called low price of strawberries. And, what about the schools that are now full of illegal aliens and their anchor children? They're in the toilet.
Libertarians say TANSTAAFL--There Ain't No Such Think As A Free Lunch. Immigration reformers might consider changing that to TANSTACL--There Ain't No Such Thing As Cheap Labor.
At the same time that we've been busy deindustrializing America by sending our factories overseas, we've been bringing in factory level illegal alien workers to America. So where do they work? They work in the fields and in service industries. Their bosses like them because they're cheap and they don't have be given medical insurance or other benefits. If they complain about poor working conditions, well, there are many other illegal aliens on street corners to replace them. And, what happens if a berry picker or service industry illegal alien gets injured or sick? You and I pay for it. Figure that into the so-called low price of strawberries. And, what about the schools that are now full of illegal aliens and their anchor children? They're in the toilet.
Libertarians say TANSTAAFL--There Ain't No Such Think As A Free Lunch. Immigration reformers might consider changing that to TANSTACL--There Ain't No Such Thing As Cheap Labor.
I know something about how this works. When I was nine years old I started picking squash, slopping hogs, shoveling cow manure and doing other things on a number of small local truck farms whenever I could wrangle a job for a few days. As I got older, I washed dishes in restaurants. Other kids in the area did the same types of things. I then worked in factories. Part of my earnings went to my parents for my room and board.
Had there been mobs of illegal aliens around, I'm sure the other kids and I would have been forced out of jobs. And, parents might have stopped having kids if the kids couldn't contribute to the household.
I know that most who are reading this, already know all of the above, but it doesn't hurt to keep repeating it in as many different voices and in as many ways as possible. You never know, maybe a different turn of phrase or two will help some of the open borders crowd finally see the truth.
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