Business Groups Attack Immigration Bill
Critics say the new Senate measure amounts to amnesty and will lead to higher taxes.
From: Inc.com By: Angus Loten
Employer and employee groups alike are attacking a Senate immigration reform bill that balances tougher border and workplace security with a path to legal status for the nation’s estimated 12 million undocumented workers.Under the bill, which the Senate is expected to take up early next week, undocumented workers would pay a $5,000 fine and return to their home countries before applying for a renewable work visa. As visa-holders, they could then seek permanent U.S. residency, a process that could take up to 13 years to complete. It would also create a guest-worker program for new immigrants.
The initiative is the result of a bipartisan agreement and is supported by the president.
“Politics is the art of the possible and the agreement we just reached is the best possible chance we will have in years to secure our borders and bring million of people out of the shadows and into the sunshine of America,” Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), the main Democrat sponsor of the bill, said on Thursday.
Yet, even Kennedy admitted the bill “isn’t perfect.”
Some Senate Republicans have likened the visa provision for undocumented workers to amnesty for illegal aliens.
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Corra thinks it’s amazing that any legislation of significance can be muddled down by bombast and other measure of insignificance. At the rate a major bill is passed these days, just imagine how long it would have take our forefathers to have ratified the Declaration of Independence. Forget about the Constitution. One of the great legal and legislative documents of all time would have been bogged down by partisan trivia and the eternal sound bite.
Corra can see both sides to the Immigration. And certainly there is a logical and rational approach to this situation. If we could devise legislation for the Civil Rights issues, then certainly we can figure out something with respect to immigration. But I guess that’s not really the point here.
What is the point is that while Congress struggles with this issue, there is no doubt a widening crackdown on employers hiring undocumented workers as well as undocumented workers themselves. Let’s face it, when you hire undocumented workers you are breaking the law. If you are unwitting, you are being foolish. If you knowingly hire undocumented workers, then you face criminal charges.
The government will crackdown even harder on businesses who employ undocumented workers. There will be increased fines and legislation to attach businesses an its their properties. You don’t want to be the poster child, the big business example, especially with an approaching election season.
So check out all your employment candidates. Demonstrate you performed due diligence. Run a Social Security Trace, a criminal check, and if they are driving for you, a Motor Vehicle Report as well. The background searches are cost effective, so don’t be foolish.
Check them out before you hire.
