Replies to post #477620 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[tinner]

But wait! What about that wonderful bill Reagan proudly signed...........you remember that Simpson-Mazzoli bill that put enforcement in the hands of employers. Another couple of Rep. failures? LOL

[tinner]

The core idea of IRCA was that it should be against the law to hire people illegally in the country and that employers who do so should be subject to penalties. Employer penalties were first proposed in the 1950s by Paul Douglas of Illinois, a liberal economist who became a great U.S. senator. In 1972, Peter Rodino, then chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sponsored employer-sanctions legislation that died. In 1977, the Carter administration drafted an employer-sanctions bill. But the Judiciary Committee chair, Mississippi's James Eastland, a champion of agricultural interests that opposed restrictions to cheap labor, refused even to hold hearings on it.

But hey.........why would the Reps. vote making a strong bill when their buddies feel the need for all that cheap labor!

[PegnVA]

It wasn't just The Decider - Repub pols in general won't stop illegal immigration because it would effect big business...why would Repubs bite the hand that feeds them?

Do you think it's a good idea that people in AZ to have to have papers with them all the time proving they're an Am citizen because some day someone may stop them and if they don't have those papers they're subject to arrest? Or is it just some people must carry proof of citizenship all the time? This law is headed for the courts...discrimination was outlawed years ago.