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Tech Companies To Lobby For Immigrant 'Dreamers' To Remain In US (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Nearly two dozen major companies in technology and other industries are planning to launch a coalition to demand legislation that would allow young, illegal immigrants a path to permanent residency, according to documents seen by Reuters. The Coalition for the American Dream intends to ask Congress to pass bipartisan legislation this year that would allow these immigrants, often referred to as "Dreamers," to continue working in the United States, the documents said. Alphabet Inc's Google, Microsoft Corp, Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc, Intel Corp, Uber Technologies Inc, IBM Corp, Marriott International Inc and other top U.S. companies are listed as members, one of the documents shows. The push for this legislation comes after President Donald Trump's September decision to allow the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to expire in March. That program, established by former President Barack Obama in 2012, allows approximately 900,000 illegal immigrants to obtain work permits. Some 800 companies signed a letter to Congressional leaders after Trump's decision, calling for legislation protecting Dreamers. That effort was spearheaded by a pro-immigration reform group Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg co-founded in 2013 called FWD.us.
"To work in companies, the illegals use other people's Social Security numbers, they will then files taxes to get their refunds, Child Tax credit, Earned Income Credit, Additional Child Tax Credit, and education credits, and what have you."
Not true; Dreamers are (well, were) eligible for social security numbers.
"To work in companies, the illegals use other people's Social Security numbers, they will then files taxes to get their refunds,"
Or, they just get Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) that let them file tax returns.
My great grandfather came to this country from Canada via Germany LEGALLY! I have his original naturalization papers to PROVE IT! My family did it legally - THEY need to as well!
In my mind - KICK THEIR BUTTS OUT!
If you go to Mexico Illegally - you get thrown in a Mexican JAIL! They don't give you a free ride, they don't have anyone there saying "oh we should give them a path to citizenship". Mexico has been doing the EXACT same things we are on THEIR southern border to stop illegals from South America coming into their country.
Why don't the Liberal/Progressives in this country go shake their fists and yell and scream in Mexico over the same stuff? I'll tell you why - they would end up in a Mexican jail, or with their heads chipped off by a machete, or shot in the head. They are nothing but loud mouth wusses!!
It is a FEDERAL offense to be in this country illegally - I don't care WHAT country you are from! It's a CRIME! If I rob a bank, that's a FEDERAL crime, I will go to JAIL! They should be sent packing back to whatever country they are here illegally from - PERIOD - End of story!
The Truth is a Virus!!!
It's not even about ethnicity. That's just the card they pull so they can scream "racist" at anyone who challenges them.
It's about labor class. These companies want cheap workers. Someone in the country illegally will try to stay under the radar. That means working for less, not reporting unsafe or unfair working conditions, and falling victim to predatory employers who will abuse them. These companies will continue to squeeze people and push hard (ie. lobby/bribe/threaten) for any arbitrage advantage they can get, and to hell with the people.
For all the demands I hear regarding past slavery conditions, these same people are ignoring the actions of the multi-national companies TODAY.
Yeah, so we can become like Malmo, Sweden and adopt the crazy policies in Germany? I'll pass.
Borders and sane immigration policy help keep the peace between cultures with conflicting value systems. When there's mass immigration because one of those systems is markedly inferior, the migrating culture ends up bringing those same problems to the new host country.
This is fascinating, however, there is no mention of 'genocide' anywhere.
The Clovis people were defined by culture. People did come across the Bering Strait into the Americas, they just weren't Clovis (yet) when they did. The Clovis culture developed after people had already settled and then spread. That's what the headline means by "Clovis People Not First Americans".
The people who settled the Americas still all have a common genetic heritage and came in a single migration. Here is an excerpt from the Center for the Study of the First Americans at Texas A&M, who published the study referenced in that article:
Current data from molecular genetics do not support this model of Native American replacement of Paleoamericans. All major Native American mtDNA and Y-chromosome haplogroups emerged in the same region of central Asia, and all share similar coalescent dates, indicating that a single ancient gene pool is ancestral to all Native American populations. Similarly, all sampled native New World populations (from Alaska to Brazil) share a unique allele at a specific microsatellite locus that is not found in any Old World populations (except Koryak and Chukchi of western Beringia), which implies that all modern Native Americans descended from a single founding population that was the result of a single migration. This is further supported by ancient DNA studies showing that Paleoamericans carried the same haplogroups (and even sub-haplogroups) as modern Native groups. Thus, although the Paleoamerican sample is still small, the craniometric differences between the early and late populations are likely the result of genetic drift and natural selection, not separate migrations from different sources in Asia.
I'd like to add that when they say "different sources", they clarify elsewhere on the page that sources can be separated spatially or temporally. Meaning that the last sentence also precludes 2 separate migrations that came from the same geographic source.
Only crack the nuts that crack. You don't put the ones that don't crack in the sack.
As an employer who tried not to hire illegal aliens, but got a lot of illegals as job applicants, it's nothing like you characterize. It is already a crime to hire an illegal alien. The penalty ranges from a few thousand dollars for the first offense, up to tens of thousands of dollars and jail time for multiple offenses.
The problem is the government requires some sort of government ID and a social security number before you can hire someone. But it doesn't give employers any way to authenticate that the documents they receive are legit. I spoke to multiple employment attorneys about this, and the best you can do is make copies of the ID presented to you and keep them on file. This is your due diligence - proof that you attempted to comply with the law to the best of your ability should the employee's legal status come into question.
In other words, the government doesn't make any effort to block illegal immigrants from working. If it wanted to, it's be trivial to implement an electronic system which could verify an applicant's ID as legit. Social security cards are trivial to fake, and they don't even need a real SSN if they don't plan to work past the end of the year (at year's end, employment taxes are submitted and SSNs which don't match the person's name and address on file get flagged by the IRS). Just a simple system which allows you to submit a name and SSN, and it spits back valid/invalid would block about 75% of the illegal applicants we got (based on flagging by the IRS). Likewise, government ID could be confirmed the same way, possibly adding a unique code onto each ID to make forging impossible without access to the original source documents.
But the government doesn't do it. They're not serious about stopping illegal immigrants from working. My hunch is conservative politicians want to keep cheap illegal labor readily available. And liberal politicians want to encourage people to enter the country illegally to skew Congressional reapportionment (House representatives are allocated based on total population - legal and illegal - so every 743,000 illegal immigrants is approximately an extra House seat), and on the outside chance they'll be legalized and become voters (they're disproportionately low income with liberal politics).
Affirmative action is, by definition, a deliberate act.
But it gave us W and it gave us Trump: so if you are worried about who will tank the country and who takes more in tax money than they produce, pick a red state and leave the Dreamers alone.
Also, you really misunderstand the Constitution if you think it was designed to keep the states "mostly sovereign." Under the Constitution, states cannot coin money, or regulate trade across their boundaries, or tax the Federal Government, or declare war, must give full faith and credit to sister state's judicial processes, etc. They tried "mostly sovereign" with the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, it did not work well, and (despite the word Perpetual) was quickly replaced with the Constitution; the Electoral College and the Senate were thrown in to make the small states (and states with smallish White populations) comfortable with giving away so much of their sovereignty.
Akhil Amar has an interesting idea for reforming the Electoral College, and he provides a good deal of history along with it http://scholarlycommons.law.no... .