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SEIU leader blasts administration on immigration enforcement

Impatient immigration advocates typically view the Obama Administration as an ally, but a key force in the debate, the Service Employees International Union, is openly criticizing the Department of Homeland Security's shift in enforcement efforts for the first time.

The Obama Administration has shifted the emphasis of enforcement away from workplace raids -- which immigrant advocates had 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.

Groups pushing to legalize most immigrant workers are broadly uncomfortable with the audits, which often cost workers their jobs, but 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 after the company was examined by the feds.

The president of SEIU's Minnesota Local 26, Javier Morillo, says in an emailed statement:

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 Napolitano, Director 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.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/ ... ement.html

SEIU.. The people in charge of the voting machines are losing members because said members are illegals?

Ruh Roh...is the Obama/SEIU honeymoon over?

SEIU leader blasts administration on immigration enforcement.

What is the problem that is interfering with enforcing immigration laws, can someone out there please enlighten me on this issue?

And I wonder if SEIU VP, Eliseo Medina, has been back to Mexico for instructions recently?
http://www.seiu.org/2009/06/in-mexico-s ... system.php
10:05 AM Eastern - June 17, 2009
In Mexico, SEIU's Eliseo Medina Calls for Cross-Border Solutions to Fix Broken Immigration System
By Kate Thomas

This week, SEIU Executive VP Eliseo Medina is in Mexico City meeting with key legislators and labor leaders on the importance of working together to improve labor rights and economic opportunities for workers on both sides of the border. "In order to build an immigration system that puts an end to the senseless suffering of so many families on both sides of the border, labor, social and political organizations in both countries must work together to build comprehensive reforms that are just and humane," Medina remarked to El Universal during a press conference with key reporters in Mexico City.



related story on RICO lawsuit against SEIU:
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/17/348403 ... wsuit.html

Originally Posted by Pisces_2010

SEIU leader blasts administration on immigration enforcement.

What is the problem that is interfering with enforcing immigration laws, can someone out there please enlighten me on this issue?

The leadership of that union has an allegience to Mexico.. ALL the top people are Hispanics.

Originally Posted by TakingBackSoCal

Originally Posted by Pisces_2010

SEIU leader blasts administration on immigration enforcement.

What is the problem that is interfering with enforcing immigration laws, can someone out there please enlighten me on this issue?

The leadership of that union has an allegience to Mexico.. ALL the top people are Hispanics.

Citizens need to visit Washington D.C. and demand our Country leaders take a stronger stance against illegal aliens invasions and immigration laws. This issue is getting out of hands and need to be addressed.

Enough is enough of anything.

Originally Posted by Pisces_2010

Citizens need to visit Washington D.C. and demand our Country leaders take a stronger stance against illegal aliens invasions and immigration laws. This issue is getting out of hand and needs to be addressed.

"Say what mid-summer?"

Originally Posted by stevetheroofer

Originally Posted by Pisces_2010

Citizens need to visit Washington D.C. and demand our Country leaders take a stronger stance against illegal aliens invasions and immigration laws. This issue is getting out of hand and needs to be addressed.

"Say what mid-summer?"

No, as soon as possible.

Also, unemployed citizens need to begin suing employers for employment discrimination who knowingly employ illegal aliens, as citizens remains jobless.

This week, SEIU Executive VP Eliseo Medina is in Mexico City meeting with key legislators and labor leaders on the importance of working together to improve labor rights and economic opportunities for workers on both sides of the border.

Both sides of the border my cute patoot!!! He's in Mexico recruiting for SEIU. "Come to the U.S. Welcome to the union and government benefits."