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Congress Debating "No-Work" Database

Posted by kdawson on from the try-getting-off-that-list dept.

grag writes "Cnet is reporting that the US Congress, in their quest for immigration reform, seeks to force employers to utilize a database to determine a person's eligibility for employment. The Department of Homeland Security would operate the database and would be given access to IRS records for this purpose. The article mentions similarities between this proposal and the no-fly list — and the expectation of similar difficulties the proposed database could pose to valid people seeking employment."

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  1. Re:Across the border... by Opportunist · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hmm... let's see... cheap labour, meaning cheap production, meaning lower imports, meaning more money generated in the country, meaning higher exports, meaning better trade balance...

    I wouldn't hold my breath for that happening.

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  2. Re:Slowly but surely... by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think you can at least be sure the government will never have a "no-buy-home" list ... the closest thing they'd have would be "loser who still rents" list ... such is the government's fascination with promoting homedebtorship.

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  3. Use Them as a Food Substitute by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Troll

    As long as we're still paying farmers not to grow crops in our socialist programme to prop up their prices in a "free" market, we should pay immigrants salaries not to work, to keep American labor prices propped up.

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