Just like the phantom voter fraud.
Damn zombie lies…they never die!
Fascism.
And, oh,I don’t know…because it is illegal to hire undocumented immigrants?
As far as I know that is true. (I have not checked)
An asylum seeker is eligible for work but not for a green card.
Once asylum has been granted, a green card is a possibility.
A work contract is a private contract between the employer and the employee.
Employers are not going to Latin American countries and recruiting these people, they are hiring people who show up.
The original fascists, the Ancient Romans, exploited foreign labor and impoverished their own citizens in the process. but don’t worry their government provided lots of welfare free bread (and circuses.)
There was also enormous political instability from the concentration of wealth at the top.
We could learn from that.
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why would I be kidding? Legal non-citizens should have biometric ID. They have no right to be here, it’s a privilege we allow. Biometric ID is not the only requirement I would have, but it is the one that would affect employment. For instance, non-citizens who are eligible to work should all be taxed at the single rate, not eligible to use tax credits, not allowed any government benefits of any kind and any money paid into SS should be a contribution that does not count for benefits should they ever become citizens. Price of admittance.
Why do you post this, if you have not checked?
But . . . . . it remains legal to hire a phoney baloney asylum seeker.
One party support this scam.
The other party opposes this scam.
And guess what caused that wealth concentration? -->Imported labor devaluing domestic labor.
And guess how they tried and failed to resolve it? → Debasing their currency and paying for a bread dole (and later circuses too )
Sheesh.
I checked that it is lefal to hire an asylum seeker. Knowing fully well that you are able to use Google, I opted not to check if asylum grantees are eligible to apply for a green card, (although my understanding is that they may.)
Well… a lot of it was because the military class was the land owning class so as Rome got involved in more and more conflicts of empire the soldiers were off fighting instead of tending their fields leaving them fallow and non productive which opened the door for wealthier people to buy up and concentrate their wealth
During the troubles of the time of the Gracchi brothers, land reform and sharing the spoils of empire with a broader base became a big issue but like a lot of populist movements it descended into murdering people.
That is the trick that humans haven’t seemed to learn.
How to diffuse wealth down from the concentration at the top to a broader base without a lot of blood being spilled.
The most peaceful way is taxation… but for some reason we can’t do that.
I have pointed this out a few times I worked for a fortune 100 company for 10 years before moving on they rarely try to go after American talent because they can pay the foreign worker 1/3rd the pay with zero benefits. In our case the foreign managers sending over the requests for H1B visas are in the same office we are in.
No party is really addressing this, I heard Trump mention it but he didn’t pass and EO on it until a week or two before he left office on the H1B cap. That was the first EO Biden ripped up when he got in office the cap on H1B visas.
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Permanent residents have a right to be here. Millions upon millions of them. They can certainly be deported for commuting a crime but otherwise they have all the same rights as you.
Biometric id. Amazing.
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Privilege, not right
After Gaius Marius (active while Gaius Julius was still a cild, or just before) non land-owners were welcome in the Roman military.
It remained however a fact that Romes wars imported a lot of cheap (slave) labor and the average Pleb could not adequately provide for his family hence the bread dole.
Sure. They are here legally. They have all the same rights you do. You want to tag them after they used the legal process to immigrate here.
That would be an illegal use of the H1-B visa.
You are correct however that enforcement is limited (a handful of cases during election years.)
That is why there needs to be a strong labor movement. if the price of labor is fixed by collective bargaining then H1B visa holders will not be a cheaper option for employers.
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It is a privilege for them, not a right.
There has to be something delineating Citizens from non-citizens otherwise citizenship is meaningless.
I have no problem with legal immigrants. They should be on a path to citizenship, not “permanent residents”. There should be no such thing as a “permanent resident”.
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