08-31-2007, 09:32 PM
Quote:I find the entire notion of borders... Questionable when it comes to labour.
Namely, because they do not apply to employers - corporations. If I'm an employer, the demand for labour, I can open up shop anywhere - with no regard to borders. Yet, when I am an employee, the supply of labour, I am very much restricted by them. I can't move down to the states, and work there. I can't move over to India, and work there, assuming I'd want to. Yet, were I a corporation, opening up a foreign branch would just be a question of money.
Work is a two-part tango, and something about that doesn't seem wholly right.
This is another problem for our resturants, and I'm sure many other businesses. Illegals have "illegal" paperwork that looks legit. There really is no way currently to know rather they are really legal or illegal; until the government comes up with a better system for keeping track of aliens with green-cards/visas, fining the employers is ridicilous IMO. And if someone does come up as illegal, they have 90-days to clear their name or leave and guess what? I'm betting they [illegals] will simply get a new SS number somewhere and change their name on a new W4/I9 form. I have a feeling this reform won't stop anything in the long run - there has to be a better way of going about this who situation...
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin