Question:
A less-kind, less-gentler Immigration Reform Bill?
Answer:
Hayworth has just introduced a bill that is much like the strict
Kyl-Cornyn bill, but includes no guest workers.
The value of things like this: When the people in Congress know they
are going to have to deal with some big difficult issue and produce
real legislation, people from the various sides begin offering bills.
The more support any of these bills get, the more influence its
approach has on the final legislation. They are like negotiation
offers, haggling. What you usually get in the end (if you get
anything) is a compromise, something in the middle of everything
that's been offered. The more hardcore bills like this that are
offered and which receive constituent support, the closer you get to
the type of reform you want.
This is the first major bill that offers no Guest Worker program at
all. That is important, as the terrible idea has been normed, even
among some people on the Illegals Reform side, that somehow Guest
Workers must be part of it.
The only purpose of Guest Workers is to push down wages for Americans,
there is no shortage of workers for jobs which don't already have
special visa provisions. And any work gang situation that honestly
can't be filled with sufficient Americans, ought not be done in the US
anyway, so that we don't get stuck paying the socialized costs of
their families.
It's interesting too, how the media, as if on some signal from the White
House, goes through the motions of some kind of public "debate" on this
issue of open borders and too massive an illegal alien population, which
continues to mushroom out of control. The agenda of the Republicans has
always been to flood the nation with tens of millions of immigrants and more
tens of millions of illegals and then, after it is way too late, take some
fake actions to look like they believe in the rule of law and preserving
America as a First World, Western nation. An article posted in api just
this week said that new immigrants (illegals) prefer to go to states that
don't have a large immigrant population -- because they don't want to live
among other Third World criminals. They have to move further into the
interior to escape the Third World enclaves that are destroying our nation
from within.
It's the 9-11 Intelligence Bill all over again, with new clothing and
makeup. And like the previous bill, El Presidente Bush will refuse to spend
the money for more Border Patrol agents, just as he refused to spend money
to fix the levees on the Mississippi River.
But that's the whole issue, that the types of companies that hire
illegal workers do so because they CAN'T outsource it to another
country. You cannot outsource to another country restaurant and hotel
services, construction, and agriculture.
You might think that agriculture CAN and does get outsourced; sure,
from the point of view of retailers. But OWNERS of farm land cannot
send their land to another country.
There's another way of not paying of the socializing costs: taxing the
worker, the employer, the US government, and the Mexican government.
Social costs exist only because guest worker trade is UNREGULATED.
Once you pay for the social costs, you would still have downward
pressure on American wages; but then it would be a general FREE TRADE
issue, because all free trade leaves some workers out in the cold.
That's old news, I've been puzzling that phenomena for several years.
In CA we've been dealing with multitudes of Illegals since around
1980. Some before that, but not multitudes. It took off when the peso
took one of its big plumets, right after Reagan came in.
And here we are in CA with countless Illegals, yet we still have the
ability to pass plebecites against them at will, things like that.
Because most of the new ones don't come here anymore.
They are parasitical upon white communities, that's where they want to
go, where the best paying and most available jobs are. The coyote
business is highly organized and tuned to get them where the anglo
economy is - in the towns and communities in rest of the 50 states.
The first time this REALLY sunk in was on a trip up through Oregon and
Washington, stopping in places that are far distant from Atzlan by
every measure. The first thing I heard at half of the stops I made was
the staccato of Mexican Spanish wafting through the air. This is up in
the Great North Woods I'm talking about. Paul Bunyan Country.
Recently I was left with my jaw open while watching on of those King
Crab Fishing shows on Discovery, way the hell up in Alaska, out in the
Barents Sea. Who is on at least one of the boats? Si, you guessed it.
Yes, there are VERY few work production situations that actually need
cheap foriegn work gangs. I was thinking more like poultry production,
that type of large-scale production or service. Very few things like
that, but there are a few. It isn't that the jobs are too lowly for
Americans, there is no such thing as that. But those production
centers that are located in undesirable areas of the country as well
(yes, I would call living in the sticks of Arkansas undesirable). No
one is going to relocate to a place they very-much don't want to live,
in order to pluck chickens for close to minimum wage, They will
(gladly) work a job like that in a better region of the US, or around
their hometowns. If it MUST be like that, if those are the people who
are going to be doing this kind of production, they might as well move
it to Mexico altogether and keep the contention that they would bring
at home. Sure they'd prefer to remain living down there anyway.
Incidently (I think I went over this before) those service jobs you
are referring to, those that can't be outsourced as can manufacturing
are the very jobs that were _promised_ to US workers when the loss of
manufacturing and such became a national phenom. The Service Economy,
and the new Information Industries. That was the precise promise and
justification made by the commerce people and the politicians who run
interference for them. They were doing it every single day on the TV
talkshows and news when NAFTA came for ratification.
One thing has become crystal clear: Business interests will say and
promise ANYTHING in the public square nowadays, whilst having no
intention whatsoever of keeping their part of the compact. They do not
negotiate in good faith, ever, they are just spewers of self-serving
garbage. Witness previous Amnesties. And these are the same people
supporting Illegals and Guest Worker today, making similar promises
and hanging out lures. That's why I am hardcore about it, that's why
these arguments for compromise with them and Guest Workers get nowhere
with me and most Americans. If they negotiated actual deals that they
in good faith intend to keep, things would be a little different. But
now our only option is to roll them. It's us or them, so far as the
future of the US is concerned. It isn't like the people of the US need
or want any of this, we're not going to play ball anymore.
