Recently President George W. Bush Jr. declared his desires to have the Immigration Reform Bill passed into LAW after the Congress and Senate shelved it. This president has consistently shown total disregard toward the needs of the citizens of the United States. This specific bill is the equivalent to union busting on a national scale. For those companies who cannot take their manufacturing plants overseas, we will bring the low wage workers to you. The intent is to continue to flood the job market not just of farm workers, but construction workers, meat packers, truck drivers, nannies, cooks, housekeepers, lawn keepers, manufacturing and textile workers to drive wages down and establish new lower level of expectations. The decreased baseline in wages has increased the profits of the extremely wealthy while diminishing the quality of life for the working families of the United States. His argument that our citizens are not willing or able to perform the functions that the12 million illegal aliens are performing has no basis in reality. The present working U.S. citizen whose labor pays the taxes that supports the infrastructure of hospitals, roads, welfare and our government cannot afford and are not willing to perform jobs at substandard wages. The failure to enforce the existing immigration laws has created a new class of American citizens, referred to as the working poor. Those who cannot afford healthcare, proper dentistry and sometimes even a roof over their head while working 40 or more hours a week. The higher educated salary workers above the working class wages has and will continue to drop in unison with the bottom line and will ultimately suffer the same depletion of their quality of life. During a recent presidential debate, it was stated that the 846 illegal immigrants that were arrested at the Swift meat packing plant did not close the plant but that the next day there were over 1,000 American citizens applying for those jobs. As an example, since the early 70’s when the meat packing industry was allowed to start hiring Mexican Nationals to perform these jobs in the attempt to break the Amalgamated Meat Packers Union, that industry has shown a 46% decrease in true wages while American citizens have gone unemployed. Of coarse, once an American citizen has been unemployed for over 6 months, they are no longer eligible for unemployment benefits and no longer counted in the national statistics. These workers are no longer earning $19/hr. but are reduced to competing against other illegal aliens just to work for minimum wages without benefits to survive. How many families have been dissolved for economic reasons? How many children of U.S. citizens live in poverty for this very reason?Until the present laws are enforced, the borders are secured and jail time with substantial fines for those who hire and continually employ illegal immigrants, this issue will not be resolved. As an example, when a construction subcontractor or a meat packing plant pays a number of illegal immigrants as either 1099 (independent contractors) or as W2 wages, the subcontractor or plant managers utilizes those wages as a cost, decreasing his profit and then pay taxes on the remaining profits. He also has to show the tax number or social security number of the individuals when reporting it to the IRS & Social Security Departments. Whenever the tax number of either the 1099 or W2 employee proves to be false, he cannot prove his expenses. Either he is falsifying his expenses, underpaying his taxes or he is aiding and abetting a criminal or both. The same goes for those willing to loan or issue credit cards or even rent homes to known illegal aliens are just as guilty. Once the illegal alien can no longer obtain jobs, loans, credit cards, drivers’ license or plates for their vehicles they will be easily identifiable and no longer have a need to stay within our borders. My vote would be to enforce our present laws and prosecute those who break them. I would suggest 2 years and $10,000 per act for both, the alien and the hiring, lending or renting agent and then deport the alien without the possibility of future U.S. citizenship.On another note, those who have become Legal Immigrants are not aliens. They have accepted the responsibilities and assimilated into our society, earning them all of the rights and privileges of being a U.S. citizen. We should embrace and endear them as one of our own. Unfortunately for the American people, the Democratic politicians view the illegal immigrants as a new voting base and are willing to give them our Social Security Entitlements, free medical and free higher levels of education (Federal Grants) at our expense. Many of the Republican politicians view them as a negative influence on the costs of doing business and although it violates his oath of office, (Enforcing the Laws) our President G.W. Bush Jr. has stated he will only enforce those laws in which he agrees with. None of these views are in the best interest of the working class citizens of the United States so get used to being irrelevant, a member of the serf class only existing to serve the desires of the extremely wealthy ruling class.
Recently President George W. Bush Jr. declared his desires to have the Immigration Reform Bill passed into LAW after the Congress and Senate shelved it. This president has consistently shown total disregard toward the needs of the citizens of the United States.
This specific bill is the equivalent to union busting on a national scale. For those companies who cannot take their manufacturing plants overseas, we will bring the low wage workers to you. The intent is to continue to flood the job market not just of farm workers, but construction workers, meat packers, truck drivers, nannies, cooks, housekeepers, lawn keepers, manufacturing and textile workers to drive wages down and establish new lower level of expectations. The decreased baseline in wages has increased the profits of the extremely wealthy while diminishing the quality of life for the working families of the United States. His argument that our citizens are not willing or able to perform the functions that the12 million illegal aliens are performing has no basis in reality. The present working U.S. citizen whose labor pays the taxes that supports the infrastructure of hospitals, roads, welfare and our government cannot afford and are not willing to perform jobs at substandard wages. The failure to enforce the existing immigration laws has created a new class of American citizens, referred to as the working poor. Those who cannot afford healthcare, proper dentistry and sometimes even a roof over their head while working 40 or more hours a week. The higher educated salary workers above the working class wages has and will continue to drop in unison with the bottom line and will ultimately suffer the same depletion of their quality of life.
During a recent presidential debate, it was stated that the 846 illegal immigrants that were arrested at the Swift meat packing plant did not close the plant but that the next day there were over 1,000 American citizens applying for those jobs. As an example, since the early 70’s when the meat packing industry was allowed to start hiring Mexican Nationals to perform these jobs in the attempt to break the Amalgamated Meat Packers Union, that industry has shown a 46% decrease in true wages while American citizens have gone unemployed. Of coarse, once an American citizen has been unemployed for over 6 months, they are no longer eligible for unemployment benefits and no longer counted in the national statistics. These workers are no longer earning $19/hr. but are reduced to competing against other illegal aliens just to work for minimum wages without benefits to survive. How many families have been dissolved for economic reasons? How many children of U.S. citizens live in poverty for this very reason?
Until the present laws are enforced, the borders are secured and jail time with substantial fines for those who hire and continually employ illegal immigrants, this issue will not be resolved. As an example, when a construction subcontractor or a meat packing plant pays a number of illegal immigrants as either 1099 (independent contractors) or as W2 wages, the subcontractor or plant managers utilizes those wages as a cost, decreasing his profit and then pay taxes on the remaining profits. He also has to show the tax number or social security number of the individuals when reporting it to the IRS & Social Security Departments. Whenever the tax number of either the 1099 or W2 employee proves to be false, he cannot prove his expenses. Either he is falsifying his expenses, underpaying his taxes or he is aiding and abetting a criminal or both. The same goes for those willing to loan or issue credit cards or even rent homes to known illegal aliens are just as guilty. Once the illegal alien can no longer obtain jobs, loans, credit cards, drivers’ license or plates for their vehicles they will be easily identifiable and no longer have a need to stay within our borders. My vote would be to enforce our present laws and prosecute those who break them. I would suggest 2 years and $10,000 per act for both, the alien and the hiring, lending or renting agent and then deport the alien without the possibility of future U.S. citizenship.
On another note, those who have become Legal Immigrants are not aliens. They have accepted the responsibilities and assimilated into our society, earning them all of the rights and privileges of being a U.S. citizen. We should embrace and endear them as one of our own.
Unfortunately for the American people, the Democratic politicians view the illegal immigrants as a new voting base and are willing to give them our Social Security Entitlements, free medical and free higher levels of education (Federal Grants) at our expense. Many of the Republican politicians view them as a negative influence on the costs of doing business and although it violates his oath of office, (Enforcing the Laws) our President G.W. Bush Jr. has stated he will only enforce those laws in which he agrees with. None of these views are in the best interest of the working class citizens of the United States so get used to being irrelevant, a member of the serf class only existing to serve the desires of the extremely wealthy ruling class.