Comments on: 20 Loopholes in the Senate Amnesty Bill

By: Jobs For Felons

Jobs For Felons — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:51:56 +0000

Couldnt agree more Rikyrar. My website Jobs For Felons gets inundated with felons every day who cannot find a job anywhere. This system needs some serious work but as most of us know that aint gonna happen. Great article !

By: THE ARCHITECT

THE ARCHITECT — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:01:00 +0000

The question is a red herring. One could give dozens of answers–from their underwriting of social security to the tune of $7 bil to the fact that the 1990s era economic boom would have been impossible without them. But all of those only highlight a bigger problem–that undocumented workers are exploited. Not a fan of the recent Immigration Bill proposal either–because it is rooted still in exploitation. The only people who benefit are the corps and multinationals who help put together treaties like NAFTA that ruin the livelihood of farmers in Central America, and then exploit those same desperate peoples as cheap labor so they don’t have to pay fair wages. The answer to this shouldn’t be, “bash the victim immigrants.” Neither should it be the bigotry of low expectations that says, blacks should settle for the same low wage jobs now being offered to the desperate. Is this what we’ve come to? That if Leroy and Taquesha can’t do the job, then Jose and Maria will? We accept that preimise? And then we bicker over who can get exploited the most–whilst those same exploiting corps help bilk us of $billions through illegal wars, oil price gouging, etc.? Newsflash–in the era of globalization, the powerful DO NOT believe in national borders. That’s why the NAFTA loving Vicente Fox can go from being head of the American company Coca Cola to being the president of Mexico. That’s why some of the richest Americans don’t even spend much time in the U.S. Multinationals think in a borderless world where they freely move goods and monies–and traffick in exploited peoples. We need to start thinking of a globalization from below. We don’t have enemies in “illegal immigrants”–but millions of potential allies. Imagine if undocumented workers who have been toiling and contributing to the American economy are allowed equal wages, and corps no longer have a pool to exploit? Imagine if we say, Leroy and Taquesha should have a better social/education system where they aren’t being forced to compete with new arrivals for dead-end jobs? When slavery ended in the US, the Irish made the mistake of beating and lynching freed blacks who they feared would lower their wages. Instead of uniting with blacks and taking on the powerful who exploited them, Irish workers indulged in racism and attacked those on the bottom rung of the ladder–at the same time seizing their whiteness. WEB DuBois chastised them for what was an obvious “race to the bottom,” a “zero-sum game” in which the disenfranchised bickered amongst themselves for crumbs, whilst the rich dined in fine style. We, of all people, should know better.

By: NMP

NMP — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:01:00 +0000

What I don’t understand is how any politician or pro-immigration advocate can argue that the country is in desparate need of unskilled labor at the same time there is upwards of a 14% Black unemployment rate. Why won’t so-called civil rights groups and the CBC at the very least ask for a moratorium and pump money into a REAL nationwide job outreach and training program in urban and southern communities?

By: Nanette

Nanette — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:35:00 +0000

I don’t think the benefits for Black folks come so much from illegal immigration itself as it would from making the immigration not illegal.

By: Homeland Colors

Homeland Colors — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:19:00 +0000

i’m not really bothered by illegal immigrants. There is no reason for an African American to compete with an illegal immigrant for a job. Most do unskilled labor, many don’t have high school degrees or speak English well. Our problem is not that illegal immigrants are taking our jobs, our problem is that two few of us qualify for jobs that improve one’s quality of life. To many of us have criminal records and can’t get well paying jobs because of felonies. Illegal immigration is a non-issue as long as you keep terrorist and drug dealers out, and most don’t fit into those categories.

By: dougk

dougk — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:40:00 +0000

thsi bill is not good for anyone except illegal immigrants!

By: Josephine

Josephine — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:13:00 +0000

There are no benefits to illegal immigration (in my opinion) to the Black community.

This is indentured servitude for the immigrants.

This Amnesty Proposal is definitely not the answer.

Josephine

By: Swerl

Swerl — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:32:00 +0000

As the recipient of a “Thinking Blogger” award, I am able to bestow it on five other bloggers. I have chosen “Jack and Jill Politics” as one.

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swerl