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jlf1961 -> RE: Employers May Have To Start Paying Fair Wages Again (2/11/2017 1:05:04 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tamaka
I think alot of them have papers, fake ss #'s etc so there is no way to tell.
Actually, some years ago, back during the Clinton administration, three agencies discussed ways to deal with just this issue. At the time, the best idea was going from the paper ss card to a plastic one with a 3d bar code on the back.
It was then proposed to a joint subcommittee and actually got the approval of both Libs and cons, it just needed a bill to make it through congress to get it implemented.
By the time the bill got to the point where it would have been voted on, a 500 million dollar plan had so many riders attached to the bill that it had reached 34 Billion dollars in unrelated spending.
It died in congress never actually being voted on.
Then there was the universal ID card proposed right after 9/11 under the Bush administration.
The original idea was an ID card that was tied to your SS#, passport etc. but state issued. They even wanted to put a smart chip on it like some of the newer debit and credit cards.
Both sides went batshit crazy over that, everyone from the gun lobby to the libs (based on invasion of privacy) to conspiracy theorists on both sides, and oped's by religious leaders about the mark of the beast etc.
So, all that came out was a set of standards which set down exactly what was needed for getting a state driver's license or ID.
And the points about enforcement voiced by bounty are entirely accurate.
The wall will cost billions, to hire enough immigration investigators, staff more detention centers, etc would cost tens or billions.
And neither the left or the right will go for it.
Republican and Democrat elected office holders have been discovered to have hired at one time or another, illegal aliens. There have been a number of appointees for cabinet and agency heads from both sides to have been discovered to have hired illegals, not paid all the employer taxes on wages etc.
Which brings us to the key point.
It is good politics to run on immigration reform, building a wall or a fence, either amnesty or massive deportations. Bill did it, George did it, Obama did it, and now Trump.
I will bet you dollars to donuts that it ends up not happening, although personally, I am sick and tired of pressing 1 for English, going to the super market or a store and not being able to understand what the person at the register is saying because of a heavy accent, and paying school taxes to educate kids who are not here legally.
Personally I say fuck the wall, instead take all those land mines we have sitting in military warehouses and sew mine fields so thick along the border that a mouse cant walk across without stepping on one.
It works for north Korea to keep people in, so it holds true that the same system will keep people out.
And according to some, I am a member of the alt left.
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