Thread: Labor Dept. aids and abets crime of illegal immigration

Last Updated: June 23. 2010 1:00AM
Manny Lopez
Labor Dept. aids and abets crime of illegal immigration
Agency provides a job help line for use by illegal immigrants

Illegal immigrants in America have long flouted the law. And why not, since it's seldom enforced.

Expect that to get worse now that the Obama administration is offering its assistance.


That's right, specifically the Department of Labor. The nation's top work force agency no longer is simply turning its head as hordes of people break the law and enter the United States each day, it now is offering a helping hand.

"Every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly whether documented or not (emphasis added), " Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says in a public service announcement posted on the agency's website. "So call us. It is free and confidential."


There it is, folks. Your tax dollars at work.

Solis is not imploring legal workers who are beaten or denied access to water or suffer some other abuse at the hands of an unscrupulous employer to call.

She's telling illegal immigrants in America -- criminals who have crossed the border without regard to our laws, often repeatedly -- that if they don't think they are being paid properly, they can get help from the federal government.

I'm not making this up. Go to the Department of Labor's website ( http://www.dol.gov/wecanhelp/psa.htm) and watch it for yourself.

Solis is joined in her call by actors Jimmy Smits, Esai Morales and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers.

"You work hard and you have the right to be paid every cent of the money you earn," Morales says in another video. "Our laws protect you whether you're documented or not."

Improper advocacy
As a technical matter, the "wage and hour" division of the Department of Labor where the videos are being pitched may be within the law, but that doesn't make the campaign to help criminals confidentially rat out their employers -- and "protect" their illegally earned wages -- any less egregious.

Don't get me wrong, businesses that knowingly hire illegal workers should also be held accountable.

If legal workers aren't being paid properly or are working in sweatshops, let's protect them. But tax dollars shouldn't be used for government ads advocating further abuse of the system.

Motives unclear
I doubt this campaign is a sting operation to go after businesses that hire illegal immigrants.

It certainly isn't a ploy to round up border crossing scofflaws. After all, Attorney General Eric Holder is expected next week to file a lawsuit against Arizona's immigration law, bolstering the case for amnesty advocates.

The Labor Department didn't return calls to explain its position, and when I called the toll-free number that Solis said was "free and confidential" and told the nice woman who answered that I had questions about using tax dollars to produce these videos to help criminals get more money, she asked me a lot of questions about who I was and why I was calling.

Perhaps if I had said I was an illegal immigrant I would have gotten faster answers.

Manny Lopez is opinion page editor of The Detroit News.

http://detnews.com/article/20100623/OPI ... mmigration

Perhaps if I had said I was an illegal immigrant I would have gotten faster answers.

No doubt you would have! Illegal invaders are a protected class in this country now. If you've ever wondered how it is illegal invaders can walk around with the sense of arrogance, bravado, and overall sense of invincibility - this is your answer!

We have a government that panders and grovels at the feet of illegal invaders, especially hispanic invaders. Solis is an open border, card carrying member of la raza and relishes the fact she is able to reach out to her illegal raza on our dime no less. If it appears as if she's throwng it in your face, that's because she is!

"Every worker in America has a right to be paid fairly whether documented or not (emphasis added), " Labor Secretary Hilda Solis says

What kind of twisted pretzel logic gets to a place where a worker forbidden by law to work in the country is entitled to a fair wage? The whole administration must suffer from mental illness.

They will help illegal foreign citizens, but not US citizens unless you are one of their favored groups. A lot of people can tell you that. This is the goal they have been working towards for decades; to remove US citizens who are whites or Christians and replace them with a multi-cultural society. They will harass the police departments and sue governments and businesses to get there.

It is actions like these that solidify beliefs that this group of liberal socialists, insulting Americans at every turn, are not qualified to run a government like the United States. Run it into the ground, yes. They are like children, having fun, creating havoc, and leaving a big mess for grownups to clean up after them. We are all left wondering how much damage they will do as they go outside the law, make up their own rules, and attempt to run over anyone who gets in their way.

Psalm 139:14

We all knew this is the direction Solis woukl go in when obama appointed her to the position, after all she was a member of LaRaza!

Illegal Aliens do NOT have the right to even Work in our country. They do NOT have the Right to even be in our country. How do they all of a sudden have the right to fair wages?
LMAO @ the Lunacy of these idiots and their twisted logic...