DemocRAT's SHAME! Traitor Schumer Sez Amnesty Bill for Criminal Beaners by Labor Day

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Schumer: Amnesty Bill for Illegals by Labor Day

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

WASHINGTON -- The lead Democrat steering an immigration overhaul
through the Senate said Wednesday he expects to have a bill ready by
Labor Day that is more generous to highly skilled immigrant workers
than those who are lower skilled and is tough on future waves of
illegal immigration.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Sen. Chuck Schumer said an
immigration bill can be done by the end of the year or early next year
that works out disagreements between labor and business interests on
the flow of legal foreign workers.

"I think we'll have a good bill by Labor Day," said Schumer, D-N.Y. "I
think the fundamental building blocks are in place to do comprehensive
immigration reform."

Schumer said the way to get the bill done is to be very tough on
future waves of illegal immigration. He declared himself
pro-immigration and said the U.S. should encourage legal immigration
and find some kind of path for people now here to find a way to legal
citizenship.

"We have a shortage maybe of engineers here or Ph.D's in physics, but
we probably don't have a shortage of people who can do construction
work," Schumer said.

The AFL-CIO and the Change to Win labor unions earlier this year
announced their support for immigration reform, which they have
opposed in the past.

But the unions' continued opposition to increases in visas for foreign
workers is at odds with the demand by business for legal foreign
workers in industries ranging from high-technology to agriculture.

"I think one of the ways to bridge it is to look at the different
areas of labor and where there are shortages and where there are not
and where just workers are being brought in for exploitive purposes _
broadly put meaning just get lower wages _ rather than having a
shortage," Schumer said. "I think if you look at each broad field you
can see that one size does not fit all."

Schumer's office has met to dyscuss his bill with Compete America, a
coalition pushing for more visas for foreign workers. Members of the
group are skeptical of a labor proposal for an appointed commission to
set limits on visas and green cards given to legal residents, said
Robert Hoffman, an in-house lobbyist for Oracle, a software company
and member of Compete America.

Ana Avendano, AFL-CIO's director of immigration policy, said Schumer's
"one size doesn't fit all" view is shared by labor. "We want employers
to have workers they need, but the key is determining when there is a
real need, not one employers make up when they import temporary
workers."

Earlier Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said
beginning Sept. 8, businesses wanting federal contracts would have to
use E-Verify, a Web-based system, to check whether their employees are
legally working in the U.S. The Bush and Obama administrations had
delayed implementing the rule.

The Senate voted for a proposal to make the E-Verify system permanent
as it debated a spending bill for the Homeland Security Department.

The department also said it is abandoning a Bush administration plan
to force employers to fire workers who can't resolve a mismatch
between their Social Security numbers don't match their names. The
administration said it would come up with a new rule.

The Bush administration had tried to root out undocumented workers
through so-called "no-match" letters that the Social Security
Administration sends employers. But a lawsuit filed by the American
Civil Liberties Union has prevented the rule from taking effect.

Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary
Committee, said the two announcements send mixed signals.

"The administration is saying illegal immigrants shouldn't have jobs
by supporting the federal contracting rule, but making it harder for
companies to follow the law by doing away with the Bush 'no-match
rule,' " Smith said.
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