Folks, I didn't even know this site exists. I am ONLY posting it so we can know what those who wish to take over our country are thinking. Know your enemy. Don't know whether it's better to have eaten or not, prior to reading this. Sorry.



http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/imm-m18.shtml

WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE

Bipartisan Senate plan would deepen exploitation of immigrant workers
By Barry Grey
18 May 2007


[quote]A group of Democratic and Republicans senators on Thursday announced a bipartisan proposal to overhaul the US immigration system that contains punitive measures against undocumented workers currently in the US and regressive provisions that would prevent future immigrants from bringing parents, adult children or other family members into the country.

Details of the proposed legislation, which runs 380 pages, remain sketchy. However, certain key points are clear.

The plan contains discriminatory and anti-democratic language provisions, requiring immigrants seeking permanent legal status to learn English, and mandates a massive expansion, to 18,000, of the border patrol police, the erection of 370 additional miles of fencing on the US-Mexican border, and a hi-tech employment verification system for immigrant workers.

It would also establish temporary worker programs to vastly expand the number of immigrant workers brought into the country to serve as highly exploited cheap labor for agribusiness and other corporate interests.

The plan would allow most undocumented workers who entered the US before January 1 to receive a temporary residency permit until they obtained a “Z Visa,â€