what was it that bill clinton passed so that illegal immigrants could work?
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hope this is what ur looking for:\n\nhttp://www.nilc.org/immlawpolicy/obtainlpr/oblpr043.htm
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Reagan started Amnesty for Mexicans. It has just gone out of control under Bush. \n\n"But he said Mexicans also remember Reagan fondly for backing a massive financial bailout of Mexico in 1982, and for pressing immigration legislation in 1986 that granted amnesty in the United States to 3 million Mexican immigrants.\n\n\nIt has been a belief that it is in the US's best interest to boost the Mexican economy. Bush knows exactlly what he is doing. Those immigrants pump millions into the Mexican economy.
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Define "Allow" :) I would guess that they aren't openly allowing it, more turning a blind eye to it. The problem comes from the fact that both of the industries you mention rely on illegal immigrants for labour, since most Americans don't want the jobs themselves (since the pay is so low and/or the conditions are so bad) Therefore if the legislature starts cracking down on those companies, they could literrally destroy them. Even if they don't levy the enormous fines that would probably be legally required for the companies' infractions, the companies would still be in a position where they simply couldn't afford to hire the staff they needed to keep going. You fancy paying $6 for a burger? Because it could happen if your local burger joint had to start paying Americans to do the jobs currently done by immigrants...
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The illegals get welfare by stealing social security numbers and identities and using false papers. Therefore, the time limits under the Clinton welfare reform doesn't apply to them because once the time limit is up, all they have to do is get new stolen social security numbers and identities and false papers and start all over again. American citizens who draw welfare are limited to the time limits from the welfare reform and are then cut off. American citizens who fall on hard times and have to turn to welfare assistance have a harder time finding jobs that pay enough to live off of because the illegals have taken jobs and depressed the wages of those jobs still available to American citizens. Therefore, those in the lower working class are highly unlikely to ever be able to "work their way up" since the opportunities have been stolen which will entrap these people into poverty with little to no way out.
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HELL NO!!!!!! He voted to give ILLEGALS social security,AMONG OTHER THINGS!!!!
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I support a bill that will both strengthen our borders and allow hard working immigrants to continue working.  \n\nAllow the good hard working immigrants to stay... Send home the Criminal disrepectful immigrants who only come here for pleasure!
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The President wants to close the borders. This has international and domestic impacts.  Internationally, Mexico is our next door neighbor and a huge source of its funding comes from the funds sent home by immigrants to the United States.  Both the Presidential candidates in Mexico are running on platforms regarding OUR immigration policies.  We like friendly relations with our neighbors. \n\nDomestically, employers want to have access to lower wage workers.  Closing the borders will limit their access to those workers.  Their opposition would make it harder for Bush to address the issue.\n\nDomestically also, there is a huge illegal immigrant population which has never been screened for diseases we have eradicated here, as legal immigrants are screened. Probably more importantly from Bush's point of view, that huge group could easily hide a multitude of terrorists, since they have never been screened for that, either.\n\nSo in building a coalition to address this issue, Bush came up with a guest worker program.  As an incentive to screening the illegal immigrants already here, and for the more human reasons a number of people have already raised on these pages, he came up with a path to citizenship within that program.  That would also bring them within society so that the hard case undesirables wouldn't be shielded by Hispanics who would normally have nothing to do with them.\n\nHe is defending the country as he sees it.\n\nWhat do I think of his approach?  I could design a program with all of those elements that I could live with. Part of it would be to make sure the employers funded the social services needed to support their work force. That would also make their wages more on par with those of our own workers which would help even the playing field. Another part of my plan would be to make the whole thing conditional on a truly secure border. Unfortunately, Bush hasn't asked me to write up the program.
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First off, I believe you mean H.R. 4437. It's a good, strong bill againt illegal immigration passed by the House and yet to be voted on by the Senate, but will probably be shot down because the GOP has become a bunch of sissies. See below for more info (especially the External Links at the bottom).
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Better read up on history. Billy Clinton got this bill passed.  President Bush has to abide by the laws. You got it all wrong dude.
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The government does to reap benefits from cheap labor in the form of lobbyist (in support of big business) who support their campaigns financially. \n\nWhy is this not a no brainer for most people?\n\nNot only that, Mexican's aren't the only illegals in the country, there are large amounts of Asians (who cross the border illegally) and a growing number of Easter Europeans (who come as guest workers but stay even after their visa's expire) here illegally in this country.  \n\nI had a friend (Eastern European, from Bulgaria) who was brought here by a Bulgarian company that partnered with American companies to set up Bulgarian workers to work for American companies.  She worked pretty much like a slave for Six Flags (from sun up to sun down for $5.75) for months until she just quit.  In order to keep from becoming illegal, she became a student a "school" (I say school because the place was a small office in an office park that looked more like an apartment building) where she paid them $800 every 3 months.  She finally couldn't afford it anymore and stopped paying and is now illegal.  \n\nThere are more where she comes from and the number keeps growing as companies continue to ship people in to exploit them.\n\nThe U.S. Government inacted NAFTA, after which led to a huge jump in the number of illegal immigrants from Mexico.  That would be in my opinion the way in which the government is allowing illegal immigrant labor to keep wages low.  How is that a conspiracy theory?
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In May 2006, the Senate passed a sweeping immigration reform measure which provides for stricter border control but also allows for a legalization process .This URL explains it:\nhttp://www.newsbatch.com/immigration.htm\n\ncc
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Apparently nothing since employers are illegally hiring illegal immigrants so they can illegally pay them less than prevailing wages, And our politicians act like it doesn't occur because the employers illegally pay lobbyist ( legal bribery) to ensure no legal actions are taken by our crooked lying scumbag politicians.
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Because right now U.S. don´t need more workers, this nation is build for immigrant (except for few native-american who survive). Clinton leave the country with the biggest profit in the history and Bush changed to the biggest deficit in the history; and we need to blame someone.\nAlso the Global-market made few rich people with billions and a lot of poor people who trade to find something better in the other side of the border, like Ellis Island but now the gate is closed.
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there are jobs that dont make it worthwhile for some americans to take.  People on welfare make more in welfare than they would it they work, the system here needs to be changed.  Unions make it hard to hire employees who might do these jobs; prisoners, kids, etc.  companies that have to pay health care, insurance, etc for legal workers.  I think what bush means is that its bad for the companies profits not to be able to hire illegals, pay them low wages, give them no benefits, and tell them to get lost when the work is done.
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According To President Bush In His Speech\n\n "We are a nation of laws, and we must enforce our laws."\n\nTHE FACT IS that there is already a federal statutory framework in place which specifically prohibits the hiring of illegal aliens, which provides record keeping rules to verify an employee’s work authorization and identity, and which provides for monetary sanctions (Fines)to be levied against employers who violate the provisions of the law.\n\nTHE FACT IS that big business, which has provided massive financial support to the Bush Administration, and which benefits from hiring illegal aliens and paying them cheap wages while skirting employer tax and record keeping obligations, does not want “employer sanctions” enforced.\n\nTHE FACT IS that the Bush Administration has had the responsibility for “cracking down on employers who hire illegal aliens” and has failed miserably to enforce existing “employer sanction” laws. \nCAN ANYONE EXPLAIN WHY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION \nHAS ALLOWED THE NUMBER OF FINES AGAINST EMPLOYERS WHO UNLAWFULLY HIRE ILLEGAL ALIENS TO FALL FROM 400 IN 1999 TO ONLY THREE (3) IN 2004?\n\nTHE FACT IS that there are ALREADY laws on the books providing for the deportation of illegal aliens, whether they are simply here illegally, which, of course, is a crime in and of itself, or whether they have committed additional crimes as well.\n\nTHE FACT IS that the Bush Administration has made little or no effort to enforce these laws. Instead, they implemented a “catch and release” policy. \nThis policy allows an apprehended illegal alien to remain free in the United States if that person simply agrees to appear at a court hearing! \nThe results of this policy have been disastrous. \n “Knowing they’re unlikely to be jailed, thousands of immigrants have surrendered to Border Patrol agents, and then have been allowed to continue their journey into America, court summonses in hand,” says T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council.\n There are actually reports of illegal aliens taking taxis from the border to Border Patrol offices to turn themselves in, to be “caught and released” as a way to cross into this country. \nUnder pressure, the Bush Administration has claimed that this policy would be replaced “gradually.” \n\nTHE FACT IS that the Bush Administration’s immigration policies, cannot be taken seriously as an advocate of strict enforcement of immigration laws. \nHe cannot be trusted to support or advance legislative measures to stop the flood of illegal aliens or secure our broken borders.
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It is unclear how much of this is going forward.  It is clear that the Bush administration, who are globalists, did try to have discussion continue without public scrutiny.  For example, when Congressman Tancredo recently called for public hearings to find out what is going on, the press was told that the names of Americans on the working groups were not being given out 'so they wouldn't be distracted by the public'.  Compare this to Canada where the names of the people on the working groups are on the government web page.\n\nBush thinks it would be dandy to have free immigration here from Mexico for cheap labor for employees, only screening for security.  The Senate Immigration bill which contained elements having us buy and give to Mexico equipment and training for patrolling their SOUTHERN border is possibly part of this - so Bush could ease up restrictions on their northern, our southern, border.\n\nWe don't know what is going on, and some of what is guessed is probably wrong.  However, it is disturbing that these discussions have been going on for more than a year and we know so little about it.\n\nI don't know if an 'Amero' is in the works.  However, the overall idea might work with a generally equal economy like Canada.  With Mexico it would flood our services including education.  Middle class tax payers would foot the bill while corporate employers benefit from cheap labor.
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The current legistlation regarding illegal immigration is a sweeping reform bill that would, in fact, make it easier for people, people who are currently in our country in violation of our laws and customs, to become legal citizens.\n\nIt would also make it far harder for companies to employ illegal immigrants, who usually receive abysmal pay and suffer under reprihensible working conditions. Further, the proposed legistlation would strengthen our border patrol, currently vastly underfunded and understaffed.\n\nEveryone at some point seized the land they are living on by force from the people (or in rare cases, many millions of years ago, animals) who were already living there. The issue is that a soveirgn nation must be able to control who is allowed to become a citizen, pay taxes, and enjoy the benefits of those taxes.