The Republicans Long Con Job

[jbrownson0831]

Republicans don’t want to fix the problem. They’ve had multiple opportunities at bipartisan fixes.

But for them a broken border it is a significant political issue to rally the base around. They already lost abortion when Roe was overturned.

Hahahahahahahahahaha Dimmer lecturing us on Bipartisan fixes.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[jbrownson0831]

It started in 1986, when Ronald Reagan decided to stop enforcing the laws against wealthy white employers hiring undocumented people.

It wasn’t that Reagan had suddenly discovered he liked nonwhite people. He’d opposed both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1966, running for California governor, he supported a ballot initiative to end “Fair Housing” laws in the state, saying:


Similarly, when running for president in 1980, Reagan’s biographer Lou Cannon notes on page 520 of his book that Reagan called the 1965 Voting Rights Act “a humiliation of the South.”

But by 1986 President Reagan was deep into a campaign to de-fund the Democratic Party, and the Democrats’ main donor was organized labor. What better way to crush unions than to replace their members with non-union workers who were legally invisible?

For example, prior to the Reagan administration two of the most heavily unionized industries in America were construction and meatpacking. These were tough jobs, but in both cases provided people who just had a high school education with a solid entry card into the American Dream.

They were well-paid jobs that allowed construction and meatpacking workers to buy a home, take vacations, raise their kids and live a good, middle-class life with a pension for retirement. The meat packers in Wisconsin were doing so well that they sponsored what became the only non-billionaire-owned NFL football team — the Green Bay Packers — from day one.

Reagan and his Republican allies — with unionized companies across the country making healthy “donations” legalized by the 1978 Bellotti Supreme Court decision — wrote the 1986 Immigration Reform Act in a way that made it harder to prosecute employers who invited undocumented workers into their workplaces.

They abandoned systems like I had to engage so I could work in Germany and Australia in 1986/87 and the early 2000s, or like Canada and other developed countries have had in place for decades.

Instead, under Reagan’s new law, employers could easily avoid sanctions by simply having undocumented immigrants give them paperwork (often supplied by the employers themselves) that met the new requirement that it “reasonably appears on its face to be genuine.”

Further reducing the “burden” on employers, an amendment to the law under the guise of preventing discrimination “penalized employers for conducting overly aggressive scrutiny of workers’ legal status on the basis of their nationality or national origin.”

The law also held companies harmless if they simply fired all their unionized American workers and replaced them with undocumented immigrants who were employed by a subcontractor.

This led to an explosion of fly-by-night and immigration-law-skirting subcontractors providing cheap undocumented labor for everything from construction to fieldwork to cleaning factories (like the most recent charge of child labor violations in Nebraska).

The GOP's grand con job

Kevin McCarthy just came back from a press trip to our southern border, full of talk about how bad the Biden administration is doing with asylum and immigration. Later, another group of House Republicans “held a hearing” at the Mexican border. If you watch Fox “News” you know all about...

www.rawstory.com

Poor skewey. You closet Trump lovers are so transparent......

 

[Coyote]

Hahahahahahahahahaha Dimmer lecturing us on Bipartisan fixes.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Why do they keep kicking the can the road?

 

[jbrownson0831]

Why do they keep kicking the can the road?

Right now you Dims are turning us into a third world country, so ensuring that doesnt happen is the main goal of conservatives.

 

[Coyote]

Right now you Dims are turning us into a third world country, so ensuring that doesnt happen is the main goal of conservatives.

Nice dodge.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Nice dodge.

Hmmmm I know you hate the truth.
Dims do nothing that resembles bipartisan so lecture your own ilk.

 

[Coyote]

Hmmmm I know you hate the truth.
Dims do nothing that resembles bipartisan so lecture your own ilk.

Still dodging.

 

[jbrownson0831]

Still dodging.

(Final Jeopardy music playing)

 

[miketx]

It started in 1986, when Ronald Reagan decided to stop enforcing the laws against wealthy white employers hiring undocumented people.

It wasn’t that Reagan had suddenly discovered he liked nonwhite people. He’d opposed both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1966, running for California governor, he supported a ballot initiative to end “Fair Housing” laws in the state, saying:


Similarly, when running for president in 1980, Reagan’s biographer Lou Cannon notes on page 520 of his book that Reagan called the 1965 Voting Rights Act “a humiliation of the South.”

But by 1986 President Reagan was deep into a campaign to de-fund the Democratic Party, and the Democrats’ main donor was organized labor. What better way to crush unions than to replace their members with non-union workers who were legally invisible?

For example, prior to the Reagan administration two of the most heavily unionized industries in America were construction and meatpacking. These were tough jobs, but in both cases provided people who just had a high school education with a solid entry card into the American Dream.

They were well-paid jobs that allowed construction and meatpacking workers to buy a home, take vacations, raise their kids and live a good, middle-class life with a pension for retirement. The meat packers in Wisconsin were doing so well that they sponsored what became the only non-billionaire-owned NFL football team — the Green Bay Packers — from day one.

Reagan and his Republican allies — with unionized companies across the country making healthy “donations” legalized by the 1978 Bellotti Supreme Court decision — wrote the 1986 Immigration Reform Act in a way that made it harder to prosecute employers who invited undocumented workers into their workplaces.

They abandoned systems like I had to engage so I could work in Germany and Australia in 1986/87 and the early 2000s, or like Canada and other developed countries have had in place for decades.

Instead, under Reagan’s new law, employers could easily avoid sanctions by simply having undocumented immigrants give them paperwork (often supplied by the employers themselves) that met the new requirement that it “reasonably appears on its face to be genuine.”

Further reducing the “burden” on employers, an amendment to the law under the guise of preventing discrimination “penalized employers for conducting overly aggressive scrutiny of workers’ legal status on the basis of their nationality or national origin.”

The law also held companies harmless if they simply fired all their unionized American workers and replaced them with undocumented immigrants who were employed by a subcontractor.

This led to an explosion of fly-by-night and immigration-law-skirting subcontractors providing cheap undocumented labor for everything from construction to fieldwork to cleaning factories (like the most recent charge of child labor violations in Nebraska).

The GOP's grand con job

Kevin McCarthy just came back from a press trip to our southern border, full of talk about how bad the Biden administration is doing with asylum and immigration. Later, another group of House Republicans “held a hearing” at the Mexican border. If you watch Fox “News” you know all about...

www.rawstory.com

This is what amuses me the most when the just and righteous, freedom loving patriots on this board bleat like sheep about undocumented immigrants, caravans at the border, and a "migrant" invasion.
Well...YOU helped create the mess. And one of your worshiped messiahs was instrumental in creating the conditions that allow corporations to draw large numbers of undocumenteds here to work for them.
All with no repercussions (financial or otherwise) for these corporations who can still give money to Republican and conservatives who can shout out of the other side of their mouths about "WE ARE BEING INVADED!!"

And the underlying problem STILL doesn't get solved. (Caveat...Democrats bear responsibility for the mess too...but at least I see them wanting to talk about it).

Uh....you are aware of Reagan's union busting efforts in the 80's..right?
And.....HE made it possible for this to happen. Didn't matter what "regular" people thought.

Because it didn't require legislation to do so....sigh.....

Republicans don’t want to fix the problem. They’ve had multiple opportunities at bipartisan fixes.

But for them a broken border it is a significant political issue to rally the base around. They already lost abortion when Roe was overturned.

Why do they keep kicking the can the road?

Nice dodge.

 

[westwall]

Nice dodge.

Democrats have controlled Congress far more than repubs have. Why haven't THEY tried to fix things?

 

[Coyote]

Democrats have controlled Congress far more than repubs have. Why haven't THEY tried to fix things?

They have.

Can immigration reform happen? A look back | Brookings

Elaine Kamarck and Christine Stenglein write that the polarization of the immigration debate in the U.S. has lost an essential counterweight: vested interest from the business community. They cite Margaret E. Peters' book Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization (2017).

www.brookings.edu

 

[jbrownson0831]

They have.

Can immigration reform happen? A look back | Brookings

Elaine Kamarck and Christine Stenglein write that the polarization of the immigration debate in the U.S. has lost an essential counterweight: vested interest from the business community. They cite Margaret E. Peters' book Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization (2017).

www.brookings.edu

Hahahahahahahahahaha thats not even a dodge.
Dims are interested in control and their own pocketbooks.
Geez.

 

[westwall]

They have.

Can immigration reform happen? A look back | Brookings

Elaine Kamarck and Christine Stenglein write that the polarization of the immigration debate in the U.S. has lost an essential counterweight: vested interest from the business community. They cite Margaret E. Peters' book Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization (2017).

www.brookings.edu

What legislation have they brought forward?

 

[Coyote]

What legislation have they brought forward?

It is in the article.

 

[Coyote]

Hahahahahahahahahaha thats not even a dodge.
Dims are interested in control and their own pocketbooks.
Geez.

And yet you continue to dodge and deflect.

 

[westwall]

It is in the article.

So none. Just ideas.

 

[Coyote]

So none. Just ideas.

Nope. You didn't read it did you?

 

[westwall]

Nope. You didn't read it did you?

Did read it. 1986 is the last time legislation was passed. Since then it is ideas and obummers illegal EO.

 

[Coyote]

Did read it. 1986 is the last time legislation was passed. Since then it is ideas and obummers illegal EO.

Passed by a Democrat controlled Congress. Aside from that, several specific bills were brought up.

 

[Smokin' OP]

If Teabaggers were serious about illegals, they would punish the people hiring them.
So far..........NADA.
In 42 years have done..........NOTHING.