Tancredo's Un-Real Act

Date: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:08 AM

JOB DESTRUCTION NEWSLETTER

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Last year I sent a newsletter warning that Rep. Tom Tancredo
(R-Colorado) intended to introduce a guest-worker bill (Tanredo's
"Trick or Treat" November 01, 2002). Tancredo made his proposal
official. I found out about it in Arlington a few weeks ago when I
asked Tancredo face-to-face what his guest-worker bill was all about.
Tancredo made it very clear that he supports guest-worker bills as long
as they don't allow amnesty.

Note: Lou Dobbs will discuss this bill possibly on Thursday

I don't want to judge Tancredo's bill yet because I haven't had time to
study it. There is one thing that's encouraging though:

Replaces all current H nonimmigrant visas with a single
H nonimmigrant visa for aliens coming to the United States
temporarily to perform skilled or unskilled work for which
no Americans or legal permanent residents are available or
qualified.

At first blink this may sound sort of scary, but it's actually a good
move on Tancredo's part. Now programmers, engineers, and other
technical workers who have always felt superior to factory workers and
landscapers will now have to face reality - technical workers are
nothing more than overpriced cabbage pickers,

So you might ask, why is that good? It's good because all workers in
the United States will be on an even playing-field. As their jobs are
destroyed they will be forced to band together to get rid of Free Trade
Agreements and Nonimmigrant visas.

Currently, arrogant techies think they are somehow above the grunts
that man our factories and lay our bricks. Tancredo removes that myth
once and for all. Corporations consider ALL WAGE EARNERS to be "units
of labor" and nothing else. Let's just get used to the fact that the
difference between programming computers and digging ditches is nothing
but a matter of salary.

There is one concern I have and I'm sure Tancredo's bill has the
answer: If his bill lumps all workers together, isn't it unfair to set
the numerical limit of visas per year at infinity? After all, there are
a whole lot more blue-collar grunts than geeks.Don't the geeks stand to
lose more if millions of guest-workers are invited into the U.S.?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not supporting Tancredo's bill until I study it
further. One thing for sure, I like the way he has lumped all "units of
labor" into one big cesspool of laborers.

http://www.house.gov/tancredo/newsroom/press/2003/2003_11_18.html

From the Office of
Congressman Tom Tancredo
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 18, 2003

Tancredo Introduces Comprehensive Border Security Overhaul Bill

"One-Two Punch" Legislation Would Authorize Hiring of Unprecedented
Number of Border Patrol Agents, Close Loopholes in Guest Worker
Programs

WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Tom Tancredo (CO-06) introduced
legislation today designed to plug the gaping holes in both Americas
porous borders and its dysfunctional guest worker programs.
Tancredos bill becomes the fourth major piece of legislation whose
intent is to rework federal guest worker programs. It is different from
other proposals in that it does not provide amnesty to illegal aliens
and it makes true border security a pre-condition or "trigger" required
for the establishment of any guest worker program.

"Securing our borders will enable those who wish to seek economic
opportunity in America to do so in a way that is safe and legal. Legal
guest workers will not be subjected to the cruelty of coyotes and the
possibility of death in the desert," said Tancredo.

"This bill will also end the exploitation of illegal workers in our
underground economy. Legal guest workers will not have to fear
deportation and will not be subject to intimidation and mistreatment,"
Tancredo concluded.

A summary of the highlights of Tancredos bill, the Border
Enforcement and Revolving Employment to Assist Laborers or "BE REAL
Act", is attached.

http://www.house.gov/tancredo/newsroom/press/2003/2003_11_17.html

From the Office of
Congressman Tom Tancredo
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 17, 2003

Tancredo To Introduce BE REAL Act of 2003

"This bill is beneficial to both the United States, and to those
seeking better economic opportunity from their home countries"

WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Tom Tancredo (CO-06) will introduce
tomorrow the Border Enforcement and Revolving Employment to Assist
Laborers (BE REAL) Act of 2003.

"We will be introducing a bill that is beneficial to both the United
States, and to those seeking better economic opportunity from their
home countries," said Tancredo, Chairman of the Immigration Reform
Caucus. "This sweeping immigration reform would provide a true guest
worker program for immigrants, and would allow all industrys the
ability to hire as many temporary legal immigrants as necessary."

"This legislation would also comfort Americans everywhere with its
provisions to ensure border security through additional Border Patrol,
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, and Bureau of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agents."

Some of the BE REAL highlights:

TITLE I - BORDER ENFORCEMENT

Subtitle A - Improving Homeland Security

Authorizes additional Border Patrol agents, BCBP immigration
inspectors, BICE immigration special agents, and detention and removal
officers, as well as additional detention facilities.
Suspends visa waiver program until DHS certifies to Congress that:

- automated entry-exit system is fully implemented and
functional
- all ports of entry have functional biometric machine

readers

- all participating countries issue machine-readable,

biometric

passports

Increases the civil and criminal penalties for document fraud and false
claims of citizenship, as well as overstaying a visa by 30 days or
more.
Clarifies that DHS officers may not engage in racial profiling, but may
consider factors such as mannerisms, appearance, language, behavior and
location
Subtitle B - Removing the Incentives to Illegal Migration
Requires the Secretary of DHS to create a national, mandatory
electronic employment eligibility verification system; requires that
the system provide verification or a tentative non-verification of work
eligibility within three days of the initial inquiry and, in the case
of a non-verification the employee is terminated upon confirmation of
verification; requires that the system include safeguards against its
use resulting in unlawful discriminatory practices; exempts employers
from civil and criminal liability for actions taken in good faith
reliance on the verification system
Permits employers who seek verification of work eligibility of new
hires within three days after they begin work to use such verification
as a defense against employer sanctions; requires employers to obtain
from each new hire either a social security number or an alien number
TITLE II - REVOLVING EMPLOYMENT TO ASSIST LABORERS

Subtitle A - Prerequisites to Guest Worker Program

Requires the Secretary of DHS, prior to the implementation of the guest
worker program, to certify to Congress that the entry-exit system is
fully implemented and functional; the electronic employment
verification system described in Subtitle B of Title I of this Act is
fully implemented and functional; 20,000 full-time border enforcement
personnel are in the field; BICE employees respond to every request by
state and local law enforcement officers to pick up illegal aliens
Requires the EPA to conduct an environmental impact statement and
certify that neither current levels of illegal immigration nor the
guest worker program included in this Act will adversely impact the
human environment in the United States
Subtitle B - The Guest Worker Program
Replaces all current H nonimmigrant visas with a single H nonimmigrant
visa for aliens coming to the United States temporarily to perform
skilled or unskilled work for which no Americans or legal permanent
residents are available or qualified.
Requires that the Department of Labor create an Internet-based job
posting system to which all U.S. employment agencies and business may
acquire password-protected access so that they can post available jobs
on the system; prohibits the Labor Department from approving any labor
certification applications in any industry and geographic region if the
unemployment rate exceeds five percent and the percentage of new hires
who are H non-immigrants exceeds 15 percent
For more information on this issue, please contact Carlos Espinosa at
202-225-7882.

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