* Admin Revises Rule for Employers That Hire Immigrants

[babylonsister]

Revised Rule for Employers That Hire Immigrants

By JULIA PRESTON
Published: November 25, 2007


The Bush administration will suspend its legal defense of a new rule issued in August to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants, conceding a hard-fought opening round in a court battle over a central measure in its strategy to curb illegal immigration, according to government papers filed late Friday in federal court.

Instead, the administration plans to revise the rule to try to meet concerns raised by a federal judge and issue it again by late March, hoping to pass court scrutiny on the second try. The rule would have forced employers to fire workers within 90 days if their Social Security information could not be verified.

The government’s proposal was a response to an indefinite delay to the rule ordered Oct. 10 by the judge, Charles R. Breyer of Federal District Court in San Francisco. Judge Breyer found that the government had failed to follow proper procedures in issuing the rule and that it should have completed a survey of its impact on small business.

He also found that the Social Security database the government would use to verify workers’ status was full of errors, so the rule could lead to the dismissal of many thousands of workers who were American citizens or legal immigrants.

In a four-page motion filed Friday, the government, without acknowledging any flaws in the original rule, asked Judge Breyer to suspend the case so the Department of Homeland Security could rewrite the rule and conduct the small-business survey, which it expects to do by March 24. The government said that it wanted to “prevent the waste of judicial resources” and that it was confident the amended rule would “fully address the court’s concerns.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/washington/25immig.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin

[saigon68]

1. Let the Corporations exploit illegals some more

If I owned a business I would be jumping for joy

[bluestateguy]

2. This administration was never serious about punishing employers who exploited illegal labor

Sure, there were a few raids of businesses, mostly for the cameras and to throw a little red meat at the Michelle Malkin and Michael Savage types, but otherwise nothing really changed. Now they figure that they can quietly go back to business as usual by revising the policy during a holiday weekend when no one is paying attention.

[SoCalDem]

3. Nothing will be done until we all have biometric IDs..

The rabid righties fear being identified :wtf:, and so do many lefties, so the employer abuses of undocumented workers will roll happily on for them.. As long as they have an "out", they will never be "blamed"..

Another reason why so many oppose biometric ID (combined with a valid passport), is because those documents would also be necessary to deliver nationalized health care.. Until that happens, we will continue to have a ragged patchwork quilt of health benefits that are administered by the employers many of us are indentured to.

republican legislators will never pass biometric IDs, but not for the reasopns they give.. the real reason is that once we could all be verified to be CITIZENS, it would be hard to deny us rights to vote, or work or go to school or healthcare (if we ever get that lucky)

It's not about the spirit of anonymity or rugged individualism.. it's always about the MONEY..