New Thread - Immigration

[Bright Raven]

Vince

We don't need Israelis guarding our border. We don't need a wall. Those who employ illegals should be prosecuted.

Illegal Mexican immigrants come to the United States for employment. The illegals are being employed so they keep coming. Those who employ illegals are the energy that runs the immigration problem. Agriculture is a big employer of illegals.

 

[Bright Raven]

Background: The US Government is not serious about stopping the employment of illegal migrant workers for several reasons. Politics and resources are fundamentally the problem.

The ineffectiveness of current employer sanctions for illegal hiring. This allows immigrants who are in the country illegally to easily find jobs. There are three reasons for this ineffectiveness—the absence of reliable mechanisms for verifying employment eligibility, inadequate funding of interior immigration enforcement, and the absence of political will due to labor needs to the United States economy. For example, it is unlawful to knowingly hire an illegal immigrant, but according to Judith Gans, there are no reliable mechanisms in place for employers to verify that the immigrants' papers are authentic.

 

[M-5]

Being authentic may be a issue but there are procedures in place. I highly doubt you have ever filed out a I-9 since you were employed by the government.

 

[Bright Raven]

Being authentic may be a issue but there are procedures in place. I highly doubt you have ever filed out a I-9 since you were employed by the government.

What I have or have not done has nothing to do with it.

There is something illogical about building a wall to keep people out that you want to employ. If you don't want them, then stop employing them.

 

[True Grit Farms]

Being authentic may be a issue but there are procedures in place. I highly doubt you have ever filed out a I-9 since you were employed by the government.

What I have or have not done has nothing to do with it.

There is something illogical about building a wall to keep people out that you want to employ. If you don't want them, then stop employing them.

I have no problems with folks coming here to work legally. But we need to know who's in our county, why there here and for how long.
Do you feel Israel does a good job at securing it's borders?

 

[M-5]

Being authentic may be a issue but there are procedures in place. I highly doubt you have ever filed out a I-9 since you were employed by the government.

What I have or have not done has nothing to do with it.

There is something illogical about building a wall to keep people out that you want to employ. If you don't want them, then stop employing them.

I don't employee them, But you lecturing someone on hiring practices is kinda odd

 

[Bright Raven]

Being authentic may be a issue but there are procedures in place. I highly doubt you have ever filed out a I-9 since you were employed by the government.

What I have or have not done has nothing to do with it.

There is something illogical about building a wall to keep people out that you want to employ. If you don't want them, then stop employing them.

I have no problems with folks coming here to work legally. But we need to know who's in our county, why there here and for how long.
Do you feel Israel does a good job at securing it's borders?

They do. I have been a student of Israeli national security for 50 years. Their operations are some of the best the world has ever seen.

Their security needs are not the same as ours. The primary issue here is illegals coming into the country for employment not to destabilize our nation. Our issue is the financial burden that illegals place on social programs.

 

[bball]

What I have or have not done has nothing to do with it.

There is something illogical about building a wall to keep people out that you want to employ. If you don't want them, then stop employing them.

I have no problems with folks coming here to work legally. But we need to know who's in our county, why there here and for how long.
Do you feel Israel does a good job at securing it's borders?

They do. I have been a student of Israeli national security for 50 years. Their operations are some of the best the world has ever seen.

Their security needs are not the same as ours. The primary issue here is illegals coming into the country for employment not to destabilize our nation. Our issue is the financial burden that illegals place on social programs.

While I agree with your position on not employing illegals, I disagree about the destabilization aspect. Their intention may not be to destabilize, but the burden placed on our social programs and healthcare is tremendous and one could argue that also destabilizes our nation, at least fiscally.

 

[Bright Raven]

Being authentic may be a issue but there are procedures in place. I highly doubt you have ever filed out a I-9 since you were employed by the government.

What I have or have not done has nothing to do with it.

There is something illogical about building a wall to keep people out that you want to employ. If you don't want them, then stop employing them.

I don't employee them, But you lecturing someone on hiring practices is kinda odd

I don't either Darryl. I hire a couple local hillbillies every now and then to maybe stack a couple hundred square bales in the shop or do odd jobs I am too old and frail for. I would say that puts us in about the same category. Don't you hire a couple guys now and then to pack your shingles. Lol

 

[M-5]

What I have or have not done has nothing to do with it.

There is something illogical about building a wall to keep people out that you want to employ. If you don't want them, then stop employing them.

I don't employee them, But you lecturing someone on hiring practices is kinda odd

I don't either Darryl. I hire a couple local hillbillies every now and then to maybe stack a couple hundred square bales in the shop or do odd jobs I am too old and frail for. I would say that puts us in about the same category. Don't you hire a couple guys now and then to pack your shingles. Lol

I have hired Hundreds of employees Ron , that's hundred with an S. And unlike folks that just show up and do a specific task . I have to follow all the legalities and make sure all the paperwork and documents are in order. There is not many categories that we would be the same in.

 

[Bright Raven]

I don't employee them, But you lecturing someone on hiring practices is kinda odd

I don't either Darryl. I hire a couple local hillbillies every now and then to maybe stack a couple hundred square bales in the shop or do odd jobs I am too old and frail for. I would say that puts us in about the same category. Don't you hire a couple guys now and then to pack your shingles. Lol

I have hired Hundreds of employees Ron , that's hundred with an S. And unlike folks that just show up and do a specific task . I have to follow all the legalities and make sure all the paperwork and documents are in order. There is not many categories that we would be the same in.

Maybe a bad joke but just a joke. I admire your accomplishments. Seriously. Don't be offended. Ron

 

[Caustic Burno]

We are Mexico's welfare system.
You can't blame someone trying to improve their families lives. No jobs or welfare no illegals. We are incentivizing the problem.

 

[Brute 23]

Vince

We don't need Israelis guarding our border. We don't need a wall. Those who employ illegals should be prosecuted.

Illegal Mexican immigrants come to the United States for employment. The illegals are being employed so they keep coming. Those who employ illegals are the energy that runs the immigration problem. Agriculture is a big employer of illegals.

They same argument could be made for the govt enabling the problem. They funnel just as much money to them thru welfare programs as any one.

... and don't underestimate the restaurant industry, lawn care, house cleaning, construction, etc hiring them. Its not just agriculture.

 

[sstterry]

Vince

We don't need Israelis guarding our border. We don't need a wall. Those who employ illegals should be prosecuted.

Illegal Mexican immigrants come to the United States for employment. The illegals are being employed so they keep coming. Those who employ illegals are the energy that runs the immigration problem. Agriculture is a big employer of illegals.

They same argument could be made for the govt enabling the problem. They funnel just as much money to them thru welfare programs as any one.

... and don't underestimate the restaurant industry, lawn care, house cleaning, construction, etc hiring them. Its not just agriculture.

In our area, the largest employer of the undocumented is the Koch Brothers. Kind of ironic.

 

[Bright Raven]

We are Mexico's welfare system.
You can't blame someone trying to improve their families lives. No jobs or welfare no illegals. We are incentivizing the problem.

Exactly. It is ironic that we throw out the bait and then complain because the mice show up!!!

Crap. Why waste money on a wall. Stop the illegal employment and social services. I hate to see anything living suffer but if we provide the social services, they will come!

 

[bird dog]

Raven wrote "the absence of reliable mechanisms for verifying employment eligibility"

Have you never heard of E-Verify? Does it not worked. My employer has used it for years.

https://www.e-verify.gov

 

[Bright Raven]

Raven wrote "the absence of reliable mechanisms for verifying employment eligibility"

Have you never heard of E-Verify? Does it not worked. My employer has used it for years.

https://www.e-verify.gov

No. I have not heard of it but it is apparent that our government either cannot or doesn't want to stop illegal immigration.

In Kentucky, most of the illegals are employed as temporary workers on a seasonal basis. I doubt any of them are screened by any type of program like e-verify.

 

[greybeard]

If one believes that a job is bait, it has to be remembered it works both ways.

They wouldn't have been illegally hired, if they weren't illegally here to begin with.

 

[Bright Raven]

If one believes that a job is bait, it has to be remembered it works both ways.

They wouldn't have been illegally hired, if they weren't illegally here to begin with.

Just telling them not to come isn't going to work, but you can not throw out the bait.

 

[M-5]

If one believes that a job is bait, it has to be remembered it works both ways.

They wouldn't have been illegally hired, if they weren't illegally here to begin with.

Would you think a physical barrier would help with this?? Maybe an electric fence, or a moat with alligators .