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

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Mon Jun 19 09:14:55 PDT 2006


Yes, just like prostitution. The sex workers are arrested or fined; the johns go free.

Joanna

Jerry Monaco wrote:


> 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
>
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