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    New Worker Verification Program Examined

    http://www.klastv.com/Global/story.asp? ... 5&nav=168Y

    Alyson McCarthy, Reporter
    New Worker Verification Program Examined
    March 2, 2006, 08:34 PM PST
    To crack down on the growing problem of illegal immigration, the U.S. Congress is looking at a new worker verification program. The plan could include a national ID card and computer database. But it doesn't come without criticism.

    Everyday more than one hundred day laborers -- many of them illegal immigrants -- will gather and wait for employers who need an honest day's work out of them. It's been this way for decades in Southern Nevada, and with our community's constant growth, no changes in the federal immigration laws are going to make this pool of cheap labor disappear anytime soon.

    Day laborer Jose Dominguez said, "We come here to look for what we call our bread and butter in Mexico, but we suffer too much by people who think we are bad people." Day laborers like Dominguez say they can work as many days as they want for as long as they want because the demand for their sweat is so great in our fast-growing community.

    Statistics from the 2000 U.S. Census show Hispanic immigrants hold more than 150,000 jobs in Nevada. The Silver State's Hispanic immigrants now account for more than 16-percent of the state's workforce, and that number doesn't take into account the full scope of our local illegal work force.

    "I represent employers in Southern Nevada who can't find the employees they need." Local immigration attorney Peter Ashman says until our federal immigration laws provide a realistic pathway for becoming legal citizens, most of these workers will remain in the shadows. "I think it's in the nation's best interest to have these people become a part of our system, contribute to our society, become legal and pay taxes."

    Some members of Congress believe compiling a federal computer database of verified legal workers is the answer to stemming illegal immigration, but the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada says that's a slippery slope we don't want to go down.

    Allen Lichenstein, with the Nevada ACLU, said, "And this would be a big push down that slope toward a surveillance society where everything we do and say is monitored by the government."

    Those on both sides of this controversial issue agree securing our nation's borders and protecting our domestic work force are necessary, but the debate over how to accomplish that in today's economic reality is far from over.

    So, who in our community depends on these day laborers the most? Last year's study shows most of our Hispanic immigrants work in the services industry followed closely by the construction and mining industries.

    The Worker Verification Plan has already passed in the House of Representatives. The Senate Judiciary Committee began drafting its version of the bill on March 2.

    Email reporter Alyson McCarthy at amccarthy@klastv.com
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    Meanwhile fewer of our own people from low growth areas are willing to pick up and move to Las Vegas because the crooked contractors who hire the illegal aliens are not giving the Americans jobs.
    I support enforcement and see its lack as bad for the 3rd World as well. Remittances are now mostly spent on consumption not production assets. Join our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)

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    "I represent employers in Southern Nevada who can't find the employees they need." Local immigration attorney Peter Ashman says until our federal immigration laws provide a realistic pathway for becoming legal citizens, most of these workers will remain in the shadows. "I think it's in the nation's best interest to have these people become a part of our system, contribute to our society, become legal and pay taxes."

    YOU MEAN THEY AREN'T PAYING TAXES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    This lawyer is right about these employers - they probably can't find employees that will work for the slave wages that the illegals will.
    Lets get all of these folks legal - then they can join a union, demand fair and legal wages and be replaced by illegals that will work for slave wages again, and again.
    Cheap, non taxed, labor and drugs are the addictions that must be overcome.
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