Thread: NYC chooses illegals and fed debt over teenagers' futures

http://opinionopolis.com/2008/06/23/new ... s-futures/

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New York:

Congressman Anthony Weiner held a grand press conference this weekend, complete with charts and graphs, calling on Government to double funding for the Workforce Investment Act: a federal initiative that pays for summer jobs and “job trainingâ€

We plain and simple don't have enough jobs for everyone and definately not enough jobs that pay a living wage.

We have a federal program that would accomplish that now: the Immigration and Reform Act of 1986* (IRCA) makes hiring an illegal alien a crime. Enforcement of federal sanctions against hiring illegal aliens would re-open jobs traditionally held by our teenagers - summer and all year.

Corrected from 1982 as written originally.

Originally Posted by Texas2step

We have a federal program that would accomplish that now: the Immigration and Reform Act of 1982 (IRCA) makes hiring an illegal alien a crime. Enforcement of federal sanctions against hiring illegal aliens would re-open jobs traditionally held by our teenagers - summer and all year.

People need to keep on using the ICE hotline. For those of us who have been making complaints/reports we know it is an uphill battle. But we need to keep trying at every chance we have---before the law is changed. Then it will be too late.

To report any suspicious activity please call 1-866-347-2423.

Edstate is totally right. What we have in NYC and the whole area is one of the stupidest situations imaginable. All kinds of jobs filled by illegals while all kinds of people, including inner city kids, can't find decent jobs. They are begging for people to take summer jobs in the Hamptons, and they want to import labor to fill the jobs, meanwhile, the city schools will not change the school year to let the kids work for the summer out in the Hamptons. These kids could come for the next school year with $ in their pockets and a summer of work experience and not hanging out on the street.


edstate -see my pm.

Illegals are the reserve army of the unemployed that keeps the price of labor cheap! Legal unskilled and low-skilled workers are too ashamed to speak up about their situation. Every once in a while, something happens, and the real situation is made apparent:

The New York Times
November 4, 2006
A Job Prospect Lures, Then Frustrates, Thousands
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ

The call for job applications seemed routine; certainly nobody at corporate headquarters gave it much thought. A new candy store that would be opening in Times Square needed workers. Starting pay was $10.75 an hour. [Not that much money in NYC!]

But by midmorning yesterday, a huge, swelling, discontented crowd of job seekers was milling around the sidewalks of Midtown Manhattan, not far from Macy’s in Herald Square, filling the air with curses.
The crowd put a human face on jobless statistics at a time when the city’s unemployment rate, 4.5 percent in September, was the lowest since 1988.
Several thousand people — mostly young, black and Hispanic — had shown up to apply for fewer than 200 positions, only 65 of them full-time jobs.

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Tamika Jones, 28, a Brooklyn mother of three school-age children, looked at the faces of other disappointed job-seekers and said: “This is what unemployment looks like in New York City. I wanted to cry.â€

Just in case you need them:

Email Comgressman Anthony Weiner
http://weiner.house.gov/email_anthony.aspx

Congressman Weiner's office staff:
Glen.Caplin@mail.house.gov, Dori.Friedberg@mail.house.gov, Laura.Hatalsky@mail.house.gov, Michael.Marcy@mail.house.gov, Jonathan.Schleifer@mail.house.gov

Awesome contact info...!

Sent, and sent.

These are your New York State pro-illegal Senators, and Assembly members: (that supported Spitzer's driver's licenses for illegals)

eadams@senate.state.ny.us; breslin@senate.state.ny.us; connor@senate.state.ny.us; diaz@senate.state.ny.us; dilan@senate.state.ny.us; duane@senate.state.ny.us; gonzalez@senate.state.ny.us; hassellt@senate.state.ny.us; shuntley@senate.state.ny.us; lkrueger@senate.state.ny.us; montgome@senate.state.ny.us; onorato@senate.state.ny.us; oppenhei@senate.state.ny.us; parker@senate.state.ny.us; perkins@senate.state.ny.us; sabini@senate.state.ny.us; sampson@senate.state.ny.us; schneide@senate.state.ny.us; serrano@senate.state.ny.us; masmith@senate.state.ny.us; stavisky@senate.state.ny.us; alessim@assembly.state.ny.us; eddingp@assembly.state.ny.us; engles@assembly.state.ny.us; ramosp@assembly.state.ny.us; sweeney@assembly.state.ny.us; lavinec@assembly.state.ny.us; schimelm@assembly.state.ny.us; hoopere@assembly.state.ny.us; weisenh@assembly.state.ny.us; zebrowskik@assembly.state.ny.us; JaffeeE@assembly.state.ny.us; ballg@assembly.state.ny.us; cahillk@assembly.state.ny.us; mcenenj@assembly.state.ny.us; canestr@assembly.state.ny.us; aubertd@assembly.state.ny.us; liftonb@assembly.state.ny.us; johns@assembly.state.ny.us; morellj@assembly.state.ny.us; ganttd@assembly.state.ny.us; koond@assembly.state.ny.us; schimmr@assembly.state.ny.us; peoplec@assembly.state.ny.us; hoyts@assembly.state.ny.us; schroem@assembly.state.ny.us; parmenw@assembly.state.ny.us

REPORT THEM ALL TO: http://www.wehirealiens.com/

You know what. Perhaps NYer's should start and advocacy group for American teenagers who can't get summer jobs. Interview them. Ask them what they've tried to get. Ask what they were told. THEN enlist them into contacting their NY representatives in Congress and Senate. Start a whole new constituency that the DC leaders didn't know was watching and listening. I bet you could do it. All you need is a little contact with schools, clubs, and neighborhood groups. I bet you could start a tidal wave of descent that would make DC grab their life jackets wondering WHAT HAPPENED.