IMMIGRATION AMENDMENT MEETS WITH CRITICISM
The Bush administration strongly opposed a bipartisan amendment by Senators Charles Grassley and Barack Obama to make the immigration bill easier on employers, reports the AP.
The amendment would make a new program to stop businesses from hiring illegal workers less burdensome, which Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff called “a serious step backwards” in a letter to senators.
Chertoff went on to write that the amendment “eliminates needed tools and allows unscrupulous businesses to continue to freely hire illegal workers.”
Obama’s amendment would certainly help protect wineries and restaurants when hiring new employees, but it remains to be seen what Washington will decide. The Senate is currently sifting through two dozen other amendments to the Immigration Reform bill in order to revive the stalled bill before the July 4 recess.
The amendment would make a new program to stop businesses from hiring illegal workers less burdensome, which Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff called “a serious step backwards” in a letter to senators.
Chertoff went on to write that the amendment “eliminates needed tools and allows unscrupulous businesses to continue to freely hire illegal workers.”
Obama’s amendment would certainly help protect wineries and restaurants when hiring new employees, but it remains to be seen what Washington will decide. The Senate is currently sifting through two dozen other amendments to the Immigration Reform bill in order to revive the stalled bill before the July 4 recess.
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