Republicans want a return to workplace immigration raids.

[Andy823]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/...8382.story

Quote:Republicans want a return to workplace immigration raids.
They say they'll use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status.
January 27, 2011|By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau

Reporting from Washington — Deportations of illegal immigrants have reached new heights for two years running under President Obama, statistics show, but Republicans say they'll use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status.

Republican lawmakers called on the Obama administration to return to the era of workplace raids to arrest illegal employees, an approach that contrasts sharply with the president's continued push to create a path to citizenship for "responsible young people" and deport only those illegal immigrants charged with serious crimes.

Deportations under Obama have reached new heights for two years running, statistics show, but Republicans said they would use their new majority in the House to press for more aggressive enforcement without any path to legal status.

Large-scale workplace arrests of illegal workers were hallmarks of the George W. Bush administration's approach in its final years. But two years ago Obama decided to shift enforcement efforts to focus on employers who knowingly hire illegal workers.

Once again the republicans show their true colors. Instead of going after the "employer", they want to increase raids that target the workers instead. Never mind the fact that it would cost millions to deport those they arrest, when if they target the employer, and put large fines on them, it would cost nothing, and they would actually be making money!

Since back in 1985 when the Reagan immigration plan came to be, employers have pretty much had a free ride. The workers were the target whenever the right need to "stir" up the base using the illegal immigration ploy. Employers simply hired new workers when they were raided, and never had to worry about anything. Of course that's what this has always been about, keeping an illegal work force for corporations so they could keep wages down, and not pay benefits. Republicans have NEVER done any real kind of reform, they just use the problem to get their voters worked up during election time, and then when elections are over, do nothing to fix the problems.

It's obvious they are going to use it once again in the 2012 elections, and they are going to start right now by trying to paint president Obama as lacking when it comes to illegal immigration. It doesn't matter if he has done more than Bush, and it doesn't matter that going after the EMPLOYER is a much better plan than targeting the workers. Their only goal is to make use any "wedge" issue they can to work up their brain dead base!

They know they can stop any kind of "real" immigration reform for at least the nest two years. If they really wanted to fix the problem they would go for "real' reform, and targeting the employers. Let those who came here to work do so, but make employers responsible to make sure they are legal, and prevent employers from laying off current workers so they can hire a cheaper labor force!

[Treestar]

They have no power on this. They do not have the presidency, which has the power to make the policy. Morons.

[Andy823]

(01-28-2011 02:27 PM)Treestar Wrote:  They have no power on this. They do not have the presidency, which has the power to make the policy. Morons.

I agree. I think the only reason they are doing this is to rally their base and make the president look like he is supporting illegal immigration. They don't have any plans to create jobs, and once again are going to try and use the illegal immigration issue as a wedge issue come election time.

[Treestar]

And they can continue doing that if it helps lose them the hispanic vote and that of other communities! They are so stupid.

But if they weren't stupid, they wouldn't be Republicans!

[Andy823]

(01-28-2011 03:48 PM)Treestar Wrote:  And they can continue doing that if it helps lose them the hispanic vote and that of other communities! They are so stupid.

But if they weren't stupid, they wouldn't be Republicans!

I think they know they have pretty much lost the hispanic vote, and now all they are doing is catering to the "crazy" vote from the far, far, right! I honestly think they are afraid of the teabaggers taking them on in the primaries, so they use hot button issues that like illegal immigration to try and get the teabaggers to think they are doing their best to get what they want, when in reality it's just talk, and they will do nothing at all about these kinds of issue, it's all politics.

What they seem to be failing to understand is that by catering to the far, far right, they are going to lose those republicans in the middle. Now those in the middle may not vote for a democrat, but they could just stay home like so many did when McCain ran in 2008. Another thing they don't seem to be worried about is keeping the independent voters. Polls show they are coming back in support of the president, and many of them do not agree with the tea party groups on what needs to be done to "take back" this country!

It's just the beginning of an all out civil war within the republican party, and it will be interesting to watch how it comes down, and how the leaders in the republican party handle the mess that is sure to come!

[Cha]

When dealing with republiCons it's like dealing with a corrupt foreign power that wants to destroy your country..they fucking want to annihilate you with their craven lust for destructive power grabs. The enemy within.

[jaxx]

Of course the pubs want to go after the workers, god forbid they go after the employers who get cheap labor out of the illegal immigrants. What a mess. We need immigration reform so badly and it will die on the vine with the pubs owning the House.

[OptimistesMaddie]

These same Republicans would turn around and blame President Obama for crops rotting in the fields because there would be no one to pick them. They would then blame him for the increased cost of produce. Finally, they would blame the president for Americans not wanting to work in hose same fields.....and round and round we go.