The Screw Revealed - What Big Business Wrote into the Immigration Bill

America is being screwed on the immigration legislation and big business comes out the winner again. Those bleeding hearts who are holding on to the idea that the immigration flap is all about “protecting the poor immigrant agricultural worker who is here to do jobs no other Americans will do,” need to read the bill.

The Kennedy/McCain/Kolbe/Gutierrez – The Secure and Orderly Immigration Act is a cover for big business efforts to further break the backs of American workers. It is, frankly, mostly not about agriculture workers, but clears the way for immigrant workers to take American’s jobs in almost every other field but farming.

Agriculture workers, in fact, are specifically excluded by the act when it sets up in section 304 “Market based numerical limitations” that allow up to 500-thousand “H-5A” workers a year into the country to take non-agricultural jobs. In addition, section 603 allows for importation of about another half million of those folks’ family members.

The real blow to American workers comes in section 603 that increases the “employment based immigrant categories.” This section doubles the number of immigrant workers who can be brought in to take jobs from most of us. These are skilled workers, professionals, “persons with extraordinary ability, “investors,” and “others performing labor or services.” (Again, there is no mention of Juan mowing the lawn or picking tomatoes here.) This section is the real reason the current administration and the Neo-Cons have stirred this recent immigration issue. They want to appease big business by importing cheap, skilled labor to replace Americans.

If the Democrats think their base is supporting implementation of all of this, they had better go back home and ask. Ted Kennedy has either been sold out, or sucked in. His Web site even proudly proclaims the business backing of the bill. Teddy, you ought to be ashamed!

We’re not through yet, because a lot of these workers can, after a certain period in the country, apply for permanent status. They also have an advantage that American workers don’t have. Employers cannot exclude them from benefits by hiring them as contract workers. It is illegal to hire them as contract workers. This, while millions of Americans have been cut out of their company benefits by being hired on as contract workers.

Further, these immigrant applicants must be added, under the proposed law, to the Federal Job Bank. The Act also extends Medicare health benefits to cover hospital treatment of undocumented aliens. In other words, they are going to get what is left of our Social Security monies.

It doesn’t stop there. Section 133 of this bill authorizes expenditure of what will be huge amounts of money for what we can assume will have a pretty good chance of being crooked deals to provide technical and law enforcement assistance and equipment and vehicles to protect the borders between Central America and Mexico. That’s right, Central America and Mexico!

While we all fight in the media over whether Juan who works in the yard should be given legal status (even though he charges a hundred dollars to mow the lawn), our government is setting us up for another rape of the American workers and taxpayer, and Kennedy is in on it. Washington just doesn't get it. Americans are going to be livid when they find out what has happened to them here, but it may be too late. The sad part of it is that the Democrats have been caught napping, and the GOP will blame it all on the Democratic party need to ignore their consituency and protect illegal immigration.


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