Michelle Malkin: "The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor"
June 25, 2010 10:10 am ET by Mike Burns
In her column today, Michelle Malkin censured Labor Secretary Hilda Solis' campaign to inform undocumented workers about the wage standards to which they are entitled under federal law. But as Media Matters has reported, "the Labor Department's policy of enforcing labor laws without regard to immigration status long predates the Obama administration; moreover, the enforcement of labor laws is widely seen -- even by those who advocate for greater restrictions on immigration -- as a key to discouraging employers from hiring unauthorized workers."
From Malkin's June 25 nationally syndicated column:
President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open-borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not."
That's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws -- or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.
While in Congress, she opposed strengthening the border fence, supported expansion of illegal alien benefits (including driver's licenses and in-state tuition discounts), embraced sanctuary cities that refused to cooperate with federal homeland security officials to enforce immigration laws, and aggressively championed a mass amnesty. Solis was steeped in the pro-illegal alien worker organizing movement in Southern California and was buoyed by amnesty-supporting Big Labor groups led by the Service Employees International Union. She has now caused a Capitol Hill firestorm over her new taxpayer-funded advertising and outreach campaign to illegal aliens regarding fair wages:
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To be sure, no one should be scammed out of "fair wages." Employers that hire and exploit illegal immigrant workers deserve full sanctions and punishment. But it's the timing, tone-deafness and underlying blanket amnesty agenda of Solis' illegal alien outreach that has so many American workers and their representatives on Capitol Hill rightly upset.
If you were born in the United Kingdom before 1 January 1983
If you were born in the United Kingdom before 1 January 1983, you are almost certainly a British citizen. The only exception is if you were born to certain diplomatic staff of foreign missions who had diplomatic immunity.
If you were born in the United Kingdom on or after 1 January 1983
If you were born in the United Kingdom on or after 1 January 1983, you are a British citizen if at the time of your birth one of your parents was:
a British citizen; or
legally settled in the United Kingdom.
If you were born in a qualifying territory on or after 21 May 2002
If you were born in a qualifying territory, you are a British citizen if either your father or mother is a British citizen.
If neither parent is a British citizen, you will still be a British citizen if either your mother or your father was legally settled in either the United Kingdom or that particular territory at the time of your birth.
And can you imagine what people like sniffinghighliters would say if this were true of, say, Barack Obama's parents?
Malkin's parents obviously had their visa status changed because of her birth. Therefore, she IS an anchor baby.
Can you back that up at all.
Fixxor'd for accuracy. Love how the supposed populist party implies that only dirty commies believe in "fair wages" (in scare-quotes for her pleasure).
Malkin said Nothing wrong here.
Translated:
"We will use any act by this administration to paint them as un-American, even if we have to deny reality to do it."
Considering that Malkin is the child of immigrants, why does this sound so much like "I've got mine, now let's shut the doors on everyone else!"
I don't get the NOR Americans part of your post. Is that just a term I have never heard or a mis-spelling?
Even thoug I consider my post a little off topic (e.g. Labor law and illegal aliens) I was trying to make the point that:
A) Certain people are going to attack the current administration no matter what.
B) Some people are "for" something only until they "have it", then they want to start screening out all the "undesirables".
you are an idiot.
Why thank you!
Oh, right, because they're not nearly as infuriating as brown people who talk funny.
Nope, didn't comment on that. Please read closer next time.
Therefore, you have to paint those who want to enforce the law as somehow being racist or anti American.
Nope, didn't comment on that either. Just pointing out that no matter what this administration does people like Malkin will continue to beat their partisan drum and, as a child of immigrants, that it seems a little specious of her to seem to want to lock out people who only want the same chances as she has received.
If you don't want people crossing the border because of the job opportunites here then remove the job opportunities.
Why dont you focus your anger on the criminals for once.
I thought we weren't supposed to blame Bush and Chenney for anything anymore??
Seriously!?
You know what's a better idea? Enforcing immigration law and bringing both the employee and employer to justice. Whatever happened to that?
The only "justice" brought to someone who is here legally is that they are deported. They are not thrown in jail or fined.
And, in reality, it's the employers who are the biggest problem here - they CHOOSE to employ undocumented workers and they fail to verify their citizenship status. They take advantage of those people to pay them lower wages and fewer benefits.
We need a guest worker program to protect those workers and to protect our borders. If undocumented workers can't get jobs, they won't come across the border to get a job - it's pretty simple!
Fantastic.
Just a minor point or two.
I believe it was the previous administration that was going out of its way to arrest medicinal pot smoker in CA, the newest administration, not so much.
Most illegal immigrants that have a job are not evading taxes.
(Assuming they aren't paid in cash)
Taxes are taken out of their checks just like everyone else, not to mention all those other taxes, sales, gas, etc.
If taxes aren't being taken out of their checks then you need to talk to their employer about that, oh, and the fact that they hired an illegal.
Any illegals that are working cash only jobs may not be paying income taxes on their income but; I don't think that is at a higher instance than legal immigrants (or citizens) that are being paid in cash.
Something that the Labor Dept. is apparently not very concerned about.... Condoning illegal workers in order to garner more tax money. Unbelievable.
Uh, no. Taxing legal residents or non-citizens that are here legally is part of the price for working in America.
If you meant illegals paying taxes, that is different.
Something that the Labor Dept. is apparently not very concerned about.... Condoning illegal workers in order to garner more tax money. Unbelievable.
Uh, no. The Labor Department is in charge of enforcing labor laws, not immigration laws.
Uh, huh? Could you be any more uninformed?