'American Morning' Says Immigration Status Verification Would Drive Businesses Under

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Many industries rely on migrant labor, but that is no excuse for news networks to advocate a path to legalization for illegal aliens, or - worse - to excuse employers who simply look the other way.

Yet, CNN's Jason Carroll did both in a segment for "American Morning" Nov. 5.

"You hear it, not just in the farming industry, but in the restaurant industry as well and so many of these industries - the garment industry - you know, this is what these people are looking for," Carroll said after delivering his pro-immigrant report. "They're looking for immigration reform. They feel like their businesses will go under if someone does not find a way to make some of these people who are here working, who are undocumented, and get them into some sort of legal status."

Carroll had interviewed Rob Valicoff, an apple farmer in Yakima, Wash., who owes thousands in fines because his workers' papers weren't in order. Valicoff said he checks their paperwork, but it's not a "guarantee."

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Valicoff claimed that U.S. citizens won't do the work he needs: "Uh, we've had some out here and they just don't last."

Carroll was sympathetic to Valicoff and interviewed an immigration attorney who warned that if businesses had to check immigration status the way ICE wants them to, they would "go broke."

"Though not required, ICE says employers like Valicoff should use their system called E-Verify to validate a worker's social security number," Carroll said. "However, immigration attorney Tom Roach says ICE doesn't require E-Verify because they know the reality of the workforce."

Roach also told Carroll that if that system was required the "farmers in America would go broke."

Ultimately, Carroll excused farmers like Valicoff saying, ""[Y]ou hear from the farmers there, if they don't get the reform that they think that they need it's just gonna be turn the other way and do what they have to do."

The network media has also promoted illegal immigration. An MRC Special Report in 2006 (as the House of Representatives passed a bill to curb illegal immigration) found that amnesty and guest-worker program advocates were almost twice as likely to speak in news stories as advocates of stricter border control.

—Julia A. Seymour is an assistant editor for the Business & Media Institute.


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How can illegals be doing the work Americans won't do...

as we've been lectured by the MSM for years now, when we're rapidly approaching 10% unemployment?  I'd be a whole lot of Americans would like those jobs right about now.

Unemployment approaching 10%

Unemployment approaching 10% and in July the Obama administration rescinded an order that would have put 9 million people on the chopping block for having bad SS#'s. Instead they will just E-verify Federal contractors instead.  9 million jobs opening up might put a dent in that number, not everyone in this country is happy sitting on their couch watching cable talking on their cell collecting welfare or unemployment.

So the taxpayers are

So the taxpayers are essentially paying to keep these businesses afloat that cannot cope without illegal labor.  Sounds like subsidization to me.  The taxpayer pays welfare, foodstamps, medical, public services, etc. all so these businesses can use illegals.

illegals work

The government has made it easier to live off government programs than to do work like picking apples. The very term " Illegals do work that Americans want do " is designed to tell Americans that they should not be doing menial labor. I.E. Illegals work.

It is very easy to find elitism in this phrase.

It's like slavery, only with

It's like slavery, only with criminals.  Nice.  I guess we could just call them work camps and teach them some nice folk music.  Workin in the field...

Did the stimulus create these jobs?

I have a novel idea...how about not extending unemployment benifits. It would take care of two problems.

Whose going to pay for the AMNESTY?

Has anybody thought deeply about the consequences of another
illegal immigrant amnesty? Let's forget for the moment that suddenly 20 to 30
million people are going to be legalized?  That Sanctuary states like California, New
Mexico have been financially ridden hard into the
ground, because illegal workers and their families are feeding at a gold mine at
the taxpayer expense. Let’s not mention that since the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli
bill, those made legal, was able to bring into the United States their extended family
members. That although they signed an affidavit to support those, many ended up
at the taxpayer’s expense. So let's ignore the expenditures to educate, free
health care treatment and all the rest of hidden costs of subsidizing a large
portion of the US
population. The fact that the businesses that draw them here, from every corner
of the world--PAYS NOTHING TOWARDS THEIR UPKEEP. IT'S FREE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
FOR PARIAH BUSINESS, BETTER KNOWN AS CORPORATE WELFARE?  Every one of the Democratic leadership have
used their influence to weaken E-Verify, county police fed program 287 (g) and
ICE raids on businesses.

So president Obama bypasses the masses the hard pressed American, who
have
entreated him--NO BLANKET AMNESTY! No path to citizenship!  So the
millions
already here get a free ride to your pensions, social security, public
option
health care welfare. Who in the world is going to pay for all these
legalized individual, followed by the onslaught of millions more
looking for free health care? NOW HERE COMES THE FIRESTORM! Have we
taken leave of
our senses, to think for one moment that another amnesty which is in
the works?
That a single layer fence is going to hold back millions upon millions
more
people will--COME?  This will not be small meandering lines of
illegal aliens, crossing the border during the hours of
darkness? This is going to be an unimaginably rush at a defenseless
9.000 border
patrol agents, that is--Expected?--to hold at bay those who reach our
border? Not even the National Guard and regular GI's could stop the
wave upon
wave? They will sweep in from El-Salvador, Columbia,
Guatemala, Peru, Chile
and of course Mexico.
They will arrive from Canada,
Ireland, Poland and Romania by plane clutching a
tourist visa.

Every corner of the world will hear the resounding trumpet call of Osama’s
AMNESTY. Chinese immigrants with tourist visas will fly into Mexico City and perhaps terrorists smuggled in
by M 13 gang members?  Not just the poor, but the sick, mentally
handicapped along with criminals, absconding from the arm of the law across
this planet. NOW THE MOST URGENT QUESTION IS? WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THIS?
We are already swallowing the massive funding for Iraq
and Afghanistan.
We cannot even find jobs for hapless 15 million American workers, who (if true)
are joining day-laborers at Home Depot, Walmart, and Lowe's parking lots? So
who is going to house, feed and pay-out--more strained US taxpayer
money? Perhaps we should send families of illegal aliens to squat in Sen. Harry
Reid's gated home in Nevada. Send another crowd to live in House Speakers Nancy Pelosi's grape
plantations in Central California. How about
Chuck Schumer, HS Chief  Janet
Napolitano, Joe Biden, Diane Feinstein, Gil Cedillo leaving their house key
under the mat, for some large family from Indonesia, India to find?

Let's give them free bus fare to each and every politician with a lousy
immigration grading, such as Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) or the whole
Sacramento Liberal Marxist  assembly, who
have sold bona-fide legal Angelino’s into state insolvency? Why not have them
live-in at every ACLU office and their communist lawyers so they could feed
them. Every pro-illegal immigrant Chamber of Commerce member could open a spare
room and settle some family members, until more brothers and sisters could be
sponsored and join them.  The Catholic Church
and other religious groups could welcome them at the church doors and
distribute money from the plate? The minority of Evangelicals churches could
open up the rectory, accommodating hundreds of cots from the tired and poverty
stricken.  All the anti-sovereignty
lawmakers should have plenty of room in their Virginia mansions, their custom ranches for large
numbers of impoverished families. Even the President has that large White
structure--could exhibit some kindness to homeless families and FEMA could
establish a tent city in the grounds? Any of the House and Senate who
compromised illegal immigration enforcement, should announce their address for
resettlement of people who just run the gauntlet at the under
funded border fence.


Let's face it these people who call us names such as xenophobes bigots and worse,
adding ugly cuss words to their vocabulary should also open their doors to
anybody who enters America   Perhaps American workers should obtain a hard
copy list of every unpatriotic American and give illegal matriarch a page of
addresses for their extended illegal families? We have San Francisco’s mayor Galvin Newsom and Los
Angeles Antonio R.Villaraigosa and all the other--SANCTUARY CITIES AND STATES
who have completely ignore federal laws, can also give refuge in their abodes
to incorrigible
gang members who have killed without conscience, illiterate drunk laborers who
have slaughtered families on our streets, because they could comprehend English
warning signs. 

illegally. Microsoft multi-billionaire Bill Gates and the thousands of
businesses that don't incur a darn cent should bring these family members
together in their giant homes. Corporate owners who have colluded with State
governors, Mayors, Judges and other lower echelon officials, should participate
with a welcome mat.


Then just picture the traffic chaos in every corner of America, unless you live in an isolated ranch in
the Mohave Desert, in California.
We think we have road rage now, but give it a few weeks after unfettered
AMNESTY. I even have a better idea. Open America’s doors completely? No
Ellis Island, Galveston
Island. No documents, no
inspections. NO NOTHING. Give everybody a bus ticket of their choosing, to
where they wish to go? See how long the open border zealots put up with that
progressive rush to overpopulation. IF you have changes of heart give a tongue-lashing
to your legislators at 202-224-3121 in Washington. Learn
the financial services in billions of dollars to foreign nationals at
NUMBERSUSA,. Hidden corruption that has finally been uncovered, at JUDICIAL
WATCH? What the US Census has to say about the POPULATION GROWTH in the future
of our children at CAPSWEB? Our population will escalate from 255 million to
383 million by the year to 2050?  The
next 100 million will suffocate our ability to maintain water, energy, food,
communication, infrastructure and a balanced environment.

When I was a manager in a

When I was a manager in a restaurant in HI, we had to fill out the I-9's, copy a picture ID, and SScard when we hired someone, It wouldn't have been very hard to check that against a database.  

the only way amnesty could be successful is if;

1) seal the borders.

2) deport all illegals that have been convicted of a felony.

3) do not allow them to sponsor anyone else.

4) don't give amnesty!

 

I left the Republican party because the Republic party went to the LEFT of me.