[lbo-talk] A Caste of "Illegal" Workers

[Jerry Monaco]

The ideal situation for the ruling class is to make a caste of workers
"illegal" and not to enforce the laws against employers.  This is the
actual policy of the U.S.G.

Illegal Hiring Is Rarely Penalized
Politics, 9/11 Cited in Lax Enforcement

By Spencer S. Hsu and Kari Lydersen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, June 19, 2006; Page A01

The Bush administration, which is vowing to crack down on U.S.
companies that hire illegal workers, virtually abandoned such employer
sanctions before it began pushing to overhaul U.S. immigration laws
last year, government statistics show.

Between 1999 and 2003, work-site enforcement operations were scaled
back 95 percent by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which
subsequently was merged into the Homeland Security Department. The
number of employers prosecuted for unlawfully employing immigrants
dropped from 182 in 1999 to four in 2003, and fines collected declined
from $3.6 million to $212,000, according to federal statistics.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800613.html