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Jewish World Review
May 13, 2005
/ 4 Iyar, 5765
Hillary showing more gumption on aliens than GOPers
By
Froma Harrop
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Hillary gets it. Hillary Clinton says she's against illegal
immigration. And she would fine employers who hire illegal aliens.
Pundits say the New York Democrat is using this hot-button issue
to position herself for the 2008 presidential election. It's a way to hit
Republicans from the right. Polls show huge majorities of both Republicans
and Democrats oppose illegal immigration and are frustrated that
President Bush won't do a thing to stop it.
But this issue does not belong to the right. Or it shouldn't.
Illegal immigration hurts most liberal causes. It depresses wages, crushes
unions and kills all hope for universal health coverage. Progressives have
to understand that there can be little social justice in an unregulated
labor market.
"Liberals are so confused on this issue," says Vernon Briggs, a
labor economist at Cornell University and self-described liberal.
"Immigration policy has got to be held accountable for its economic
consequences."
Many Democrats used to get it. In 1964, President Johnson
abolished the Bracero program, which brought in "temporary" farm workers
from Mexico. Its demise let Cesar Chavez organize U.S. farm workers. His
union won some battles early on, but a new wave of illegal immigrants in the
mid-1970s reversed that progress. The union barely exists today.
It's long been a felony offense for a foreign national to enter
the United States illegally. And until 1952, it was also a felony to harbor
an illegal alien. That's when farm interests had the law changed to take
employers off the hook: Employing an illegal alien no longer constituted
"harboring" one. This came to be known as the "Texas Proviso."
As factory jobs vanished and illegal immigration swelled in the
1970s, Jimmy Carter, a Democrat, sensed a growing crisis. Then came the
flood of refugees from Cuba and Haiti most claiming political asylum.
Carter refused to give blanket amnesty. The refugees were taken care of in
1986, when Republican Ronald Reagan granted a blanket amnesty for 3 million
illegals.
Carter also tried to repeal the Texas Proviso. Congress stalled
and instead set up a commission to study the matter. It was chaired by the
Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, then president of the University of Notre Dame.
U.S. immigration policy was "out of control," the panel
announced. It minced no words: "The commission has rejected the argument of
many economists, ethnic groups and religious leaders for a great expansion
in number of immigrants and refugees."
Shortly thereafter, Carter lost his bid for re-election. Reagan
became too busy cutting taxes for the rich to bother with the commission's
recommendations. (Besides, isn't cheap labor another kind of tax cut?)
The cause was taken up by Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., and Rep.
Romano Mazzoli, D-Ky. In 1986, they pushed through legislation that repealed
the Texas Proviso. It established fines for employers who knowingly hire
illegals. But there was a titanic loophole: Employers did not have to check
whether the documents presented by job applicants were valid or fake.
By 1991, America was in a recession. The economy had lost a
million jobs. That year, the current president's father, George H.W. Bush,
signed a law that raised annual legal immigration by 35 percent to 700,000.
And it did nothing about illegal entrants.
Congress in 1990 had established another commission to study the
problem. This one was headed by Barbara Jordan, a Democrat who had
represented Texas in the House of Representatives. The Jordan Commission
made excellent recommendations, which went nowhere. One would have required
employers to make a single phone call to verify a job applicant's Social
Security number. Even that was too much.
The rationale for the 1986 amnesty (we've had seven since then)
is that we had been sending illegal immigrants mixed messages. After all, it
had been previously legal for employers to hire them.
Nowadays, the messages aren't even mixed anymore. A cheap-labor
Republican, George Bush won't enforce the employer penalties. He has a new
amnesty program. And he vows to "match any willing worker with any willing
employer." Hence, the latest stampede at the southern border.
Sounds like the Democrats have an issue. And if Clinton can
seriously address the problem in non-racial terms, she could march straight
to the White House. Go for it, Hillary.
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