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This OP is meant to be considered in conjunction with the OP from my first thread on this topic. I created this "Part II" to the earlier OP because I realize that "Part I" leaves unaddressed the matter of the labor shortage US employers face.
The second part of my suggestions for legislation to mitigate that dilemma is:
"The above provisions allow employers to legally employ the folks whom they've been hiring, and they give individual US citizen/permanent residents hiring/employment primacy over non-citizens/non-permanent residents. Moreover, that primacy is actionable on the part of any individual citizen who wants a given job. Thus no citizen/permanent resident need be concerned that an immigrant has a job the citizen/permanent resident is willing and able to perform.
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This thread is intended for members who are interested in solutioneering discussions. That means, if you're going to identify a material flaw in the proposal (Part I or II), you will also have thought about it enough to offer an implementable solution(s) for whatever it is you think is amiss.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
The second part of my suggestions for legislation to mitigate that dilemma is:
- Increase legal immigration quotas -- approved green card applications and various work visa approvals -- so that migrants seeking work can and do come to the US, do the work our citizens/permanent residents (CPRs) won't do, get paid, and return home when their term of lawful employment ends. This law should:
- Require employers to dismiss immigrants if a qualified CPR who will accept the job makes him-/herself known to the employer seeking the job an immigrant currently holds. If the CPR fails to perform adequately in the first two weeks of employment, the employer can fire the citizen and rehire the immigrant. The immigrant can, during those two weeks, seek alternative employment, but not finding it, s/he must leave the US.
- Stipulate that immigrants be given two-part "right to work" authorization and both parts must be presented upon applying for/reporting to a job. The employer keeps one part and the worker keeps the other. When the immigrant's period of employment ends, the employer returns the employer part to the immigrant. The returned part will indicate the start and end date of immigrant's employment. The worker's part will also indicate those dates, the start date being noted and signed, upon the start of the worker's employment, by the employer.
- Require migrant workers to log onto a federal government website and register themselves by TIN number, indicating the name and address of their employer, the start and expected end date of their current calendar year's employment there, a contact phone number, a place of residence.
- Provide for would-be migrant workers to obtain a TIN number at a US embassy or consulate in their home country. Upon their being accepted for employment, the TIN number and the above noted "right to work" documents would be mailed/emailed/faxed to their employer. In CPB/ICE records migrants' TIN and passport number should be linked.
- Provide for the government managing (or outsourcing while maintaining government oversight) a "brokerage" service or jobs website of sorts that helps employers find immigrants and would-be migrants find employers seeking workers. The site would be accessible to foreigners and to citizens. The site should be tailored to the needs and hiring characteristics typical of the types of employers noted at the New American Economy webpage I referenced above. (It need not be exclusive to those types of jobs, but they should be the primary focus of it, the content it contains and the content it solicits from employers and job seekers.)
- As of the date of the noted provisions' effectivity, no adverse action (on account of their immigration status) would be taken against undocumented migrants physically present in the US, employed and in possession of the above noted "right to work" authorization. Similarly, no adverse action would be taken against employers. Additionally, undocumented workers, should they apply for green cards, will, on account of their work history, be neither given nor denied preferences or priorities in obtaining permanent residency and/or citizenship.
- After the effectivity date of the above noted provisions, undocumented workers found in the US, and their employers, hirers, etc. (as noted above), would be subject to existing deportation/incarceration, civil and other penalties as noted in current law and the provisions above.
"The above provisions allow employers to legally employ the folks whom they've been hiring, and they give individual US citizen/permanent residents hiring/employment primacy over non-citizens/non-permanent residents. Moreover, that primacy is actionable on the part of any individual citizen who wants a given job. Thus no citizen/permanent resident need be concerned that an immigrant has a job the citizen/permanent resident is willing and able to perform.
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Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.”
-- Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
-- Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
This thread is intended for members who are interested in solutioneering discussions. That means, if you're going to identify a material flaw in the proposal (Part I or II), you will also have thought about it enough to offer an implementable solution(s) for whatever it is you think is amiss.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
-- Abraham Lincoln