Thread: Leftist SEIU Unhappy with Obama on Immigration

Leftist SEIU Unhappy with Obama on Immigration
Written by Daniel Sayani
Monday, 21 March 2011 17:36


While leftist immigration advocates typically view the Obama administration as an ally, one of the most important players in both Democratic Party politics and the debate on illegal immigration — the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — is for the first time openly criticizing the Department of Homeland Security's shift in enforcement efforts. SEIU is the nation’s largest, most leftist, and most politically-active labor union, whose membership is comprised of nurses, home health aides, custodians, superintendents, and other such workers.

The Obama administration has shifted the emphasis of enforcement away from workplace raids — which immigrant advocates have long described as punishing immigrant workers instead of their employers — and toward so-called "I-9 audits," in which federal agents ask companies to verify their employees' legal status.

Though groups pushing to legalize most immigrant workers are broadly uncomfortable with the audits — which often cost workers their jobs — they have largely avoided criticizing the administration publicly. But SEIU has seen hundreds of members lose their jobs after I-9 audits: According to the union, 1,200 SEIU janitors in Minneapolis were fired following an I-9 audit last December, and just this week, 250 SEIU janitors in Minneapolis were fired after an I-9 audit, adding to 500 in the area who were fired from Chipotle Mexican Grill, reports Ben Smith of Politico, after the company was scrutinized by Homeland Security officials.

In a statement, Javier Morillo, president of SEIU Local 26 in Minnesota, offers the following criticisms of the I-9 audits:

Under the leadership of Secretary Napolitano the federal government has become an employment agency for the country’s worst employers. With each I-9 audit, the government is systematically pushing hardworking people into the underground economy where they face exploitation. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports targeting egregious employers that exploit workers — but it’s become increasingly obvious that this policy is nothing short of lip service. Let’s be clear: I-9 audits, by definition, do not go after egregious employers who break immigration laws because many of them do not use I-9 forms. Human traffickers do not ask their victims for their social security cards.

Secretary [Janet] Napolitano, [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] Director [John] Morton and the agencies they represent are at the forefront of a damaging policy shift in this country — one in which good, hardworking people are hand-delivered to the underground economy. SEIU fights for economic justice across this country, and we can no longer sit silently while communities are devastated by reckless policies.

The specific immigration policy in question, I-9 audits, is also known as the E-Verify program. ICE Spokesman Shawn Neudauer says that ICE offers a Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers, a voluntary program which assists employers in developing a stabler and more secure workforce by offering free education and training on proper hiring procedures, fraudulent document detection, the use of the E-Verify employment eligibility verification program, and anti-discrimination procedures.

SEIU head Eliseo Medina (whose subversive leadership in the immigration movement is explored in The John Birch Society presentation "Constitution SÃ*, Amnesty No"), however, expresses the opposition of the labor union to the E-Verify program. SEIU claims that enforcing immigration laws in the workplace is a jobs killer, and that the E-Verify program “further delays immigration reform.â€

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While Obama and Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano criticized the George W. Bush administration for emphasizing factory raids and neighborhood sweeps, and promised instead to focus on deporting the most dangerous illegal immigrants, immigrant advocates have reported that thousands of ordinary workers are still being forced into the underground economy by electronic audits of companies' hiring records.

Uhh HELLO?!?!?! What did ya think was gonna happen to illegals working for companies that are being audited?!?! You think the companies would put their butts on the line for these criminals? You're dumber than I thought!

Every illegal alien is a dangerous illegal alien and all of them should and must be deported!

And this puke union was exempted from Obozocare.

Then they still want more. Look at the leadership of this union as they are really something to be dealt with PRONTO

United
Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), Service
Employees International Union (SEIU), and the Teamsters have
all gotten WAIVERS from ObamaCare.

What really is needed and will send the SEIU over the edge is when a company is audited, those illegals found will need to be deported, not set free. They need to be removed quickly, publically, names pictures and story printed in the press to let other illegals that the USA is serious about deporting the illegals from our community.

The seiu needs to be audited to determine how many illegals are members

They bust the union for aiding and abetting