Companies help immigrants obtain US citizenship

[BlueGin]

That's one way to keep your cheap labor I guess. And since they don't have to pick up the tab...

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — For immigrants working toward the American Dream, some employers are now helping them reach their dream of becoming Americans.

Health clinics, hotels and a clothing factory are pairing up with immigrant advocates to offer on-site citizenship assistance as one of the perks of the job in greater Los Angeles, Miami, Washington and Silicon Valley as they aim to make naturalization more convenient for the 8.5 million legal immigrants eligible to become U.S. citizens.

The effort is billed as a win-win for both employee and employers: Workers avoid legal fees and having to shuttle to and from law offices to complete applications; companies create a deeper bond with immigrant workers and there's little cost as nonprofits pick up the tab.

Companies help immigrants obtain US citizenship

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

…as they aim to make naturalization more convenient for the 8.5 million legal immigrants eligible to become U.S. citizens.

Not seeing the problem…

The pay is the same whether LPRA or US citizen. And it allows employers to retain valued employees, reducing turnover.

 

[Gracie]

Actually, I think it's a pretty good idea.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Santa Ana is 95% Illegal Alien.

Should I thank a Veteran for that too?

 

[BlueGin]

…as they aim to make naturalization more convenient for the 8.5 million legal immigrants eligible to become U.S. citizens.

Not seeing the problem…

The pay is the same whether LPRA or US citizen. And it allows employers to retain valued employees, reducing turnover.

From the article. They do this specifically to keep low wage workers.

While unions historically played a role in helping workers naturalize, businesses didn't often get involved. But companies may be looking for ways to hang onto low-wage workers as immigration to the U.S. has waned and the economy starts improving, said Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science and Chicano/Latino studies at University of California, Irvine.

 

[waltky]

'We Are Being Overwhelmed'...

Loophole: People are being told to use "key words" to cross border
Aug 10, 2013 > Loophole reportedly allows immigrants to use 'key words' to get asylum

A loophole is allowing hundreds of immigrants across the Mexico border in to the United States. Immigrants are being taught to use "key words and phrases" to be allowed to enter and stay in the country. Just this past Monday, Border Patrol agents say about 200 people came through the Otay Crossing claiming a quote: "credible fear" of the drug cartels.

So many were doing this that they had to close down the processing center and move the overflow by vans to another station. "They are being told if they come across the border, when they come up to the border and they say certain words, they will be allowed into the country," said a person who did not want to be identified on camera. "We are being overwhelmed."

U.S. Border Patrol agent Jerry Conlin looks to the north near where the border wall ends as is separates Tijuana, Mexico, left, and San Diego, right. Illegal immigration into the United States would decrease by only 25 percent under a far-reaching Senate immigration bill, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that also finds the measure reduces federal deficits by billions.

Pete Nunez, former U.S. Attorney and immigration expert says, "This will swamp the system." "To make our system even more ridiculous than it has been in the past," he adds. "There are no detention facilities for families, so the family would have to be split up. We don't want to split families up, so we end up releasing people out into the community on bond, on bail."

Nunez says, "It's a huge loophole." "There has to be a policy change, something implemented, an emergency implementation that will stop this, or otherwise we will have thousands coming in." Immigrants are telling the Port Enforcement Team -- or P.E.T. -- that the cartels are ripping apart their state. There's no word on whether this same loophole is being used in Arizona.

Source

 

[whitehall]

That's one way to keep your cheap labor I guess. And since they don't have to pick up the tab...

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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — For immigrants working toward the American Dream, some employers are now helping them reach their dream of becoming Americans.

Health clinics, hotels and a clothing factory are pairing up with immigrant advocates to offer on-site citizenship assistance as one of the perks of the job in greater Los Angeles, Miami, Washington and Silicon Valley as they aim to make naturalization more convenient for the 8.5 million legal immigrants eligible to become U.S. citizens.

The effort is billed as a win-win for both employee and employers: Workers avoid legal fees and having to shuttle to and from law offices to complete applications; companies create a deeper bond with immigrant workers and there's little cost as nonprofits pick up the tab.

Companies help immigrants obtain US citizenship

Thanks to the ignorance of the left and the liberal media the difference between "immigrants" and criminals who crossed the border illegally is intentionally blurred. People who entered the US without going through the immigration procedure are not immigrants, they are criminals. People who respected the law and had their passports stamped as they entered the United States are immigrants. Use the right words and it simplifies the issues.