Opponents of illegal immigration and advocates for farm workers are blasting a ‘midnight regulation’ by President George W. Bush which would change the Labor Department’s H-2A Temporary Agriculture Worker Program, making it easier for agricultural employers to hire foreign workers. The change would both undermine worker protections and set wage levels so low that U.S. workers could not compete with foreigners for jobs. The regulation allows agricultural employers to hire temporary foreign workers if not enough domestic workers are ‘able or willing’ to fill farm jobs. Bush’s regulation is expected to take effect January 17, three days before President-elect Barack
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Bush's 'midnight regulation' will hurt citizens and hurt farm workers
January 8th, 2009
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Georgia statistics show effect of illegals on local workers Recent Georgia statistics show that despite the claims of businesses, the increased numbers of immigrant workers have been accompanied by a significant decline in the percentage of less-educated natives holding jobs in the state. • Between 2000 and 2006 the share of less-educated native-born adults (ages 18 to 64) in Georgia holding a job declined from 71 percent to 66 percent. (Less-educated is defined as having no education beyond high school.) • Less-educated blacks in Georgia have seen a somewhat larger decline in employment, from 66 percent holding a job in
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Texas seafood company faces $500,000 fine; its president faces jail and fine This time, the federal investigators and the courts got it right. Clifforn Hillman, 64, president of one of Texas’ largest wholesale seafood businesses, faces six months in jail and a $3,000 fine after pleading guilty in federal court to hiring illegal aliens after helping them fake social security. But his company, Hillman’s Shrimp and Oyster Co., faces a whopping fine of up to $500,000 for helping illegal aliens get work visas and tutoring illegal employees on how to create false identities to keep their jobs. Along with two
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