6. Will guest workers pay federal, state and local income and other taxes at the usual rates? Since rates often depend on the number of dependents claimed, how will this number be verified?
7. Will guest workers be eligible for the Earned Income Tax Credit? Since the credit permitted is also heavily dependent on the number of dependents claimed, I ask again -- how will this number be verified, presumably in the home country?
8. Will guest workers be able to bring their spouses and children to the U.S.? If the answer is yes, who will pay their medical and educational expenses?
9. How will the guest workers (and their families, if they are permitted to come) be housed and fed? In barracks and cafeterias?
10. Concerning guest workers running afoul of the law: who will bear their representation, incarceration and related expenses -- now at $2 billion annually?
11. Will children born in the United States to guest workers be granted U.S. citizenship, with all that implies?
12. Will the citizens of some countries be favored in the issuance of visas, to the disadvantage of those from less favored countries? This discriminatory favoritism would seem to run afoul of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which specifically prohibits discrimination based on "national origin." Recall with me the 40-year campaign to get rid of the National Origins immigration system instituted by the immigration legislation of 1924. Please give assurances that you do not propose taking us back to the era of "barred zones," and that all nationalities will be treated equally.
13. Will guest workers accrue paid vacation and sick leave? If the answer is yes, how will this expense be apportioned among serial employers? Will guest workers be permitted to unionize, or otherwise have collective bargaining rights?
Finally, to give us a sense of how this program might work, would you please outline in some detail how a resident of China or India, or perhaps Ecuador or Nigeria might apply for one of these visas. What would be the steps involved, and how would transportation to the United States be paid for?
Thank you, Senator Kennedy, for your efforts to solve the vexing migration problems that our country faces.
- Cordially, John H. Tanton, M.D.
Fool Us Once, Shame On YOU – Fool Us Twice, Shame on Us.
Senator Kennedy, we are reminded that you didn't do your homework -- spearheading, along with Senator John McCain, the IRCA Amnesty in 1986. You and McCain failed your homework again in 2007. Why is that?
This sounds familiar. Bush-43 didn't do his homework and strategic planning before he declared war on Iraq. You see the results daily -- as our citizens and citizens of the world suffer from chaos and mayhem in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Please understand that the average U.S. citizen-elector believes that that you, McCain, Bush-43 and most of the Members of the U.S. Congress haven't done their homework on your immigration amnesty legislation – and do not understand the long-term consequences.
Who will pay the price of this boondoggle amnesty?
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