butterbean
Joined: 21 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:16 am Post subject: Illegals and the minimum wage |
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Give Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican, credit for trying to link the issues of illegal immigration and the minimum wage on the Senate floor. The two issues are in truth intimately connected -- a fact the pro-illegal political establishment almost always ignores. But in forcing Democrats to reject an amendment to drastically increase fines on companies that hire illegal aliens to the Senate minimum-wage bill, Mr. Sessions has at least put the 110th Congress on record declining a politically difficult but almost certainly effective step toward helping workers on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder.
Mr. Sessions' amendment would have raised the minimum fine on employers that hire illegals from $250 per offense to $5,000 and the maximum from $10,000 to $40,000. This undoubtedly would have created a significant deterrent effect against the routine hiring of illegal aliens. The amendment was rejected Thursday.
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http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20070127-092609-3347r.htm |
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