Comments on: Employers and sanctions http://iamashadow.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/employers-and-sanctions/ I am an undocumented university student. These are my views of life as I know it. Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:30:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: iamashadow http://iamashadow.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/employers-and-sanctions/#comment-15 iamashadow Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:00:57 +0000 http://iamashadow.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/employers-and-sanctions/#comment-15 I think asking for an immigration reform right now is basically out of the question. The political climate has turn nightmarish on the immigration issue. All I would ask for is for the passage of the DREAM Act but even that is hoping for too much. As to when something will finally be done, maybe 2009 when there is a new president. For the time being, I have to continue fearing police sirens and reading about raids and deportations of others. I agree with Fash, no one should have to live like this. I think asking for an immigration reform right now is basically out of the question. The political climate has turn nightmarish on the immigration issue. All I would ask for is for the passage of the DREAM Act but even that is hoping for too much. As to when something will finally be done, maybe 2009 when there is a new president. For the time being, I have to continue fearing police sirens and reading about raids and deportations of others. I agree with Fash, no one should have to live like this.

]]> By: fash http://iamashadow.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/employers-and-sanctions/#comment-14 fash Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:11:28 +0000 http://iamashadow.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/employers-and-sanctions/#comment-14 Agreed...I have been such a wreck since we cancelled our phones. Every time my guys comes home late from work, I spend the entire time between when he should have been home and when he arrives worrying, thinking what if there was a raid? Nobody should have to do that. The employers have an easy way out because they can simply say that they didn't know, since many immigrants use false papers. There are a lot who don't, though, and many who only have numbers--if someone writes a number down and doesn't provide you with the social security card, then it's obvious, yes? But in the end, they see immigrants as expendable, and the businesses aren't. We need the businesses for our economy, and if you deport someone, much of the time they will come back or someone else will come in their place, so in the end nothing changes except the public perception of what the government is achieving. People are suffering for the PR machine. Agreed…I have been such a wreck since we cancelled our phones. Every time my guys comes home late from work, I spend the entire time between when he should have been home and when he arrives worrying, thinking what if there was a raid? Nobody should have to do that.

The employers have an easy way out because they can simply say that they didn’t know, since many immigrants use false papers. There are a lot who don’t, though, and many who only have numbers–if someone writes a number down and doesn’t provide you with the social security card, then it’s obvious, yes? But in the end, they see immigrants as expendable, and the businesses aren’t. We need the businesses for our economy, and if you deport someone, much of the time they will come back or someone else will come in their place, so in the end nothing changes except the public perception of what the government is achieving. People are suffering for the PR machine.

]]> By: Oathkeeper http://iamashadow.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/employers-and-sanctions/#comment-13 Oathkeeper Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:09:26 +0000 http://iamashadow.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/employers-and-sanctions/#comment-13 Hey, nice post. I understand how these things go since I live in a community with Latinos. I can't stand how they should feel such fear in a place that they have made their home for a while. The whole immigration mess is a tragedy... I keep asking God when the nightmare will be over for these people and their youth... What is your take on the whole immigration reform? Do you have an estimate as to when something will finally be done? Hey, nice post. I understand how these things go since I live in a community with Latinos. I can’t stand how they should feel such fear in a place that they have made their home for a while. The whole immigration mess is a tragedy… I keep asking God when the nightmare will be over for these people and their youth… What is your take on the whole immigration reform? Do you have an estimate as to when something will finally be done?

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