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FOXNews.com - Labor Dept. Offers Assistance to Illegal Immigrants Facing Wage DisparitiesRepublican lawmakers are expressing shock over a Labor Department ad campaign that offers government assistance to illegal immigrants who think they're getting shortchanged for their work -- and at least one of them is planning to write to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis for an explanation.
Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz says he wants to know why taxpayers are being asked to spend money to ensure that illegals get assistance for fair wages while millions of unemployed Americans struggle to find jobs
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Without wishing to or actually taking sides.
I believe that what was proposed was that all those employed should be paid at the rate of minimum wage.
Except THEY ARE ILLEGALS AND SHOULDN'T HAVE ****ING JOBS. I got no problem siding with the law, and with my Fellow Americans, sorry you find that so terrible a thought.
Where did you get the idea that he finds that "so terrible a thought?"
Was it the part where he pretty clearly expressed that he didn't have such thoughts? I mean, if you're going to be inventing conversations in your head, you should post some fake quotes or something so the rest of us can be clued in on the conversation.
Without wishing to or actually taking sides.
I believe that what was proposed was that all those employed should be paid at the rate of minimum wage.
The only thing the government should be assisting illegals with is a trip across the border,preferably a trip to the jail cell first and then a free trip home back across the border a deferred jail sentence if they reveal who was hiring them.FOXNews.com - Labor Dept. Offers Assistance to Illegal Immigrants Facing Wage Disparities
Well duh, American Workers don't matter.
FOXNews.com - Labor Dept. Offers Assistance to Illegal Immigrants Facing Wage Disparities
Well duh, American Workers don't matter.
Actually if you got over your partisan bickering then you would realize that the reason illegals are so popular among employers is that they can force them to work for less than minimum wage because of the threat of being deported. By offering this assistance then the idea is to push up even illegal immigrants wages to minimum wage and hence the chance hiring American's gets much larger. So in reality they are doing this FOR the American workers because the illegals are forcing them out of the market because they are "willing" to be hired for much less in wages.
And before you use your normal "they should not be there".. then no **** sherlock but as long as businesses hire the illegals then they will come to the US and as long as they do, then why not force the businesses in question into the limelight by demanding that illegals are paid the same as American's? And yes the best way would be to hunt down the businesses in question but it aint like that is gonna happen is it now.. your republican friends would stop that in a heartbeat as they have done for generations.
Why do you call yourself a centrist? I mean come on!Actually if you got over your partisan bickering then you would realize that the reason illegals are so popular among employers is that they can force them to work for less than minimum wage because of the threat of being deported. By offering this assistance then the idea is to push up even illegal immigrants wages to minimum wage and hence the chance hiring American's gets much larger. So in reality they are doing this FOR the American workers because the illegals are forcing them out of the market because they are "willing" to be hired for much less in wages.
And before you use your normal "they should not be there".. then no **** sherlock but as long as businesses hire the illegals then they will come to the US and as long as they do, then why not force the businesses in question into the limelight by demanding that illegals are paid the same as American's? And yes the best way would be to hunt down the businesses in question but it aint like that is gonna happen is it now.. your republican friends would stop that in a heartbeat as they have done for generations.
I disagree. They want to hire them because they tend to be better workers in my experience.
Why do you call yourself a centrist? I mean come on!
Without wishing to or actually taking sides.
I believe that what was proposed was that all those employed should be paid at the rate of minimum wage.
Yes and? Why not attack the problem at all levels with all means? Why only go the party line about "kick them Hispanic´s out" theme? Why NOT target the companies that hire them? And if you dont have the balls to dissolve all companies that hire illegals, or fine the crap out of them, then force them to pay the same wage as Americans, hence remove one of the biggest incentives there is in hiring illegals. Like it or not your politicians cant get their act together (both sides) because they have their hands down the pockets of the very companies that hire illegals, so I am amazed that this even happened.
If the companies are breaking the law, prosecute them.
But run the illegals out of here.
You don't seem much like a centrist since you always take the liberal side of everything.
I disagree. They want to hire them because they tend to be better workers in my experience.
Implication that illegals working is no big deal.
Implication that saying otherwise would be a bad thing.
This gives him a chance to clarify. Have anything on the OP or you just here to try and derail the thread because it makes the Left look so bad?
Rep. Ted Poe said:"After all, it is illegal to hire workers that are in our country illegally."
/facepalm. The reason business hire illegals over citizens is because they dont have to pay them minimum wage.
Doesn't imply that at all. This is what I meant by the conversations in your head part.
The wage may be in part, but there's also the various taxes and benefits that don't have to be paid, and you get to ignore things like safe working conditions because illegals aren't going to go file an OSHA complaint. A $10/hr illegal might actually be cheaper than a minimum wage legal worker.
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