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Jeff Simpson on reducing the number of illegal workers
5th september 2007
by Jeff Simpson
By our partners at the Las Vegas Sun
The federal Homeland Security Department plans this month to begin enforcing workplace regulations that will require businesses to screen their employees to make sure their Social Security numbers match their names.
If names and numbers don't match, businesses have 30 days to check for clerical errors, and employees have 60 days to prove their identity.Employees who are unable to prove their identity must be let go, and employers who don't terminate employees without valid identities are subjects to fines up to $10,000.
Illegal immigration is a hot-button issue, and it's difficult to avoid antagonizing extrememists on both sides.
Here is Las Vegas there are a lot of illegal immigrants, probably more than 100,000. Many of them work. A federal crackdown on businesses with employees without verified identities would undoubtedly be painful to those workers and employers.
But government and many employers have ignore the widespread use of bogus identifying documents for too long, and the ability of computer databases to cross reference names with Social Security numbers makes the new crackdown a sensible one, as long as it is enforced without favoritism.
I think immigrants have always been one of our nation's greatest strengths, and i support liberalized legal immigration policies that would allow more folks to pursue the American Dream.
But it doesn't make sense to close our eyes to the rampant use of fake names or Social Security numbers when technology, combined with government and business follow-through, can root out those who are working illegally.
All business should have to play by the same rules, and the government should make sure they do.If businesses want to be able to employ more immigrants, they should lobby Congress to allow more legal immigration.
1. Using the article above, discuss the questions below
a) In your opinion, where would the illegal workers come from in Las Vegas? what occupations would these workers be involved in?
b)Homeland Security was set up after 9-11. why do you think that the managing of illegal workers is of a prime concern in the casinos?
c)With a large number of illegal workers in Las Vegas, would they not be contributing to the income of the city by their services rather than bing a burden to the city and state?
d)In your opinion, would this situation of illegal workers be predominant in the upcoming IR's in Singapore? Would it affect you?
5th september 2007
by Jeff Simpson
By our partners at the Las Vegas Sun
The federal Homeland Security Department plans this month to begin enforcing workplace regulations that will require businesses to screen their employees to make sure their Social Security numbers match their names.
If names and numbers don't match, businesses have 30 days to check for clerical errors, and employees have 60 days to prove their identity.Employees who are unable to prove their identity must be let go, and employers who don't terminate employees without valid identities are subjects to fines up to $10,000.
Illegal immigration is a hot-button issue, and it's difficult to avoid antagonizing extrememists on both sides.
Here is Las Vegas there are a lot of illegal immigrants, probably more than 100,000. Many of them work. A federal crackdown on businesses with employees without verified identities would undoubtedly be painful to those workers and employers.
But government and many employers have ignore the widespread use of bogus identifying documents for too long, and the ability of computer databases to cross reference names with Social Security numbers makes the new crackdown a sensible one, as long as it is enforced without favoritism.
I think immigrants have always been one of our nation's greatest strengths, and i support liberalized legal immigration policies that would allow more folks to pursue the American Dream.
But it doesn't make sense to close our eyes to the rampant use of fake names or Social Security numbers when technology, combined with government and business follow-through, can root out those who are working illegally.
All business should have to play by the same rules, and the government should make sure they do.If businesses want to be able to employ more immigrants, they should lobby Congress to allow more legal immigration.
1. Using the article above, discuss the questions below
a) In your opinion, where would the illegal workers come from in Las Vegas? what occupations would these workers be involved in?
b)Homeland Security was set up after 9-11. why do you think that the managing of illegal workers is of a prime concern in the casinos?
c)With a large number of illegal workers in Las Vegas, would they not be contributing to the income of the city by their services rather than bing a burden to the city and state?
d)In your opinion, would this situation of illegal workers be predominant in the upcoming IR's in Singapore? Would it affect you?
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