StormWarning’s Counterterrorism

I need to make something crystal clear to anyone who reads this and suddenly comes to a mistaken conclusion that I am biased.  Frankly, there in nothing further from from the truth.  I do, however, draw a very bold line of distinction between Mexican-American or Hispanic American citizens, and anyone who is in this country illegally.  And by the way, good day to you from Hayward California - 64.157.224.# (AvantGo)…what are you gaining by looking at this page so often?  It isn’t going to go away.

An opinion piece in the LA Times compares the exaggerated fantasy of the 2004 satire, "A Day without a Mexican" with the reality that a new Social Security requirement to match names and SS#s to the database could cripple the Ca. economy.  But essentially, the article poses that "workplace enforcement without immigration reform will cripple the economy."  Well, most people would start with enforcing the existing laws…and that means making it illegal to knowingly hire illegal aliens.

How so?  Past letters from the Social Security Administration simply required employers to ensure that a worker’s employment papers had been properly filled out.

Now the government is demanding that unauthorized employees be fired and threatening legal action if they aren’t. This is expected to trigger widespread layoffs — self-policing by millions of small and medium-sized businesses in California and other states.

Frankly, the rest of the article tries to justify illegal immigration and speaks to "more realistic" immigration policies.  What we need is simple.  Enforce, enforce, enforce.  Illegal is still illegal…although once you allow amnesty, illegal suddenly becomes…oops!  Part of the justification is the consistent, Americans don’t want to do these jobs:

Not even the least skilled, least educated Americans want to work in agriculture these days. More than 70% of U.S. farmworkers are estimated to be illegal immigrants. And if the SSA’s no-match letters work — if employers act on them as expected — that could drive fruit and vegetable farming out of the United States, putting California’s $30-billion-a-year industry at risk.

Agriculture would be just the beginning. According to economists, every farm job sustains three or four others — at food processing plants, agricultural supply firms, companies that build trucks and other farm machinery — many of them jobs held by native-born workers. And no-match letters won’t go just to farmers. Hotels, restaurants, construction firms, landscaping contractors and healthcare services will get them too.

So the argument remains…illegal immigration is OK because no one else will do the jobs that the illegals do.  Well to start with, the company that does my landscaping doesn’t employ illegals…they’re local young men, some of them college age, who do it all.  And not only that, they’re less expensive and better than the legal Mexican who did my lawn last year.

A comment and a published quote by Robert Gaffney, Attorney and County Executive of Suffolk County, LI, NY:

The statutory foundation of United States immigration law has always
been the jurisdiction of the federal government, Congress and the
federal courts. The preeminent laws concerning the employment of
illegal aliens are found in the Immigration and Nationality Act (8
U.S.C. §~ 1101-1503), as amended by the Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1986 CIRCA).

The law states it is a crime to assist
an illegal alien who lacks employment authorization by referring him to
an employer, or by acting as his or her employer, or as an agent for an
employer. 8 U.S.C.S. § 1324a(a)(1)(A) (Lexis 1997). Furthermore, it is
unlawful to hire an individual for employment without complying with
the employment eligibility requirements for every person hired. 8
U.S.C.S. § 1324a(a)(l)(B) (Lexis 1997). Moreover, conduct tending
substantially to facilitate illegal aliens remaining in the United
States illegally, where there is knowledge or a reckless disregard of
an illegal alien s unlawful status, is a crime, with escalating
penalties, encompassed within the provisions of 1324. 8 U.S.C.S. §
1324(a)(l)(A)(iii) (Lexis 1997); United States v. Kim. 193 F-3d 567 (2d
Cir. 1999), are considered employees for purposes of immigration law.

Lastly, in 2004 there was a movie, A Day Without a Mexican that created an uproar…Wikipedia…another article, Dónde están the hired hands? ‘A Day Without a Mexican’ portrays California lacking a third of its people…By imagining a California without
the 11 million Latinos who make up a third of the population, the satirical
"mockumentary" aims to point out how much the state depends on this often-
maligned segment of the community…EXCEPT there is a big difference between people who are citizens and people who are not.

Here is a link to an article, A Day Without a Mexican that discusses the movie.

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