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Post by redwolf on Dec 14, 2007 23:55:45 GMT -6
Arizona Is Split Over Hard Line on ImmigrantsBy RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD PHOENIX — A new Arizona law against employing illegal immigrants has shaken businesses, scared workers, delighted advocates of stricter immigration controls and added to tensions in a state split over who belongs here and who does not.www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/us/14arizona.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Dec 15, 2007 5:36:31 GMT -6
It's an excellent law. It goes right to the heart of the problem--the illegal hiring of illegal immigrants by employers. It is unbelievably easy to verify a Social Security number. Banks can do it in less than 60 seconds. The E-verify should be mandatory in all states. Kudos to Arizona for being the 1st state to mandate its usage.
As usual, the economic propaganda is being spewed by well funded interests, including economist Dawn McClaren of Arizona State University.
"“If you take 12 percent of the work force away, that is going to be a problem,” said Dawn McLaren, an economist at Arizona State University, adding that people not currently working could never make up the difference."
Absolutely wrong.
There are 233 million working age Americans, and only 146.7 million are employed. That leaves an additional 86 million working age Americans who are NOT working. Could some of that 86 million make up the difference. Absolutely. All it takes is forcing employers to pay the market rate for American labor, instead of the illegal sub-market rate paid to illegal immigrants.
There are NO jobs Americans won't do. There are only employers who won't pay enough to hire American workers. And there are employers that are willing to break the law and hire illegal immigrants, instead of paying American workers the free-market wage for labor.
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Post by jeffolie on Dec 15, 2007 13:38:39 GMT -6
This is great news. I hope it holds up in the courts.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Dec 23, 2007 5:24:01 GMT -6
This is great news. I hope it holds up in the courts. It won't be long until we find out. It supposedly goes into effect on January 1, 2008.
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