Zoe asked:


GM to cut 30,000 US jobs
GM to close a dozen North American manufacturing facilities
Ford to cut about 4,000 salaried jobs in North America
North Carolina: Clinton Electronics Plant To Lay Off 250 Workers
Executives say the facility costs more money to run than it brings in, so, they are moving the jobs to Mexico and to other sites
North Carolina: Transportation Security Administration says it will eliminate the jobs of 54 screeners in Charlotte
Indiana: Local Chrysler Foundry To Close; 800 Jobs To Be Lost
Montana: Stimson workers in shock – Laid-off employees fear looming bills, hope for rehires, retraining
Mississippi: Textron announces 60 more layoffs at Greenville plant
Massachusetts: Hard-hit professionals working ‘survival jobs’ years after layoffs
New Jersey: PSEG to cut jobs at plants in South Jersey
Arkansas: Acxiom: New Technology to Help Earnings, May Mean More Layoffs
US-based Kimball Electronics to set up China manufacturing plant
Georgia: Candy maker to move to Mexico, leaving 200 joblessKodak Swings to a Loss Again, Targets 10,000 More Job Cuts
ATA Airlines Cutting 450 Jobs Amid Outsourcing Plans
HP Expected to Announce Massive Layoffs
I think this country is in Serious trouble what do you think of this turn of events?
Then define what Recession means ?

LOVES PEOPLE asked:


Well it seems to me that we focus only on Mexican illegals what about Brazilians where i live there are virtually no Mexicans most of the illegals are Brazilian. And they all stand in corners looking for jobs that’s not my problem my problem is that these people are arrogant and cocky the disrespect other countries including the u.s.a. Almost every city in Massachusetts is full of Brazilians now when will we focus on other people not just Mexicans. Where i been almost all the illegals are Brazilians
well its time we stop targeting just Mexicans because Brazilians think they are the 8th wonder of the world better than anyone in America even tough they are illegals.

Mad Kat asked:


Do you believe if employers know these criminals will sue them, do you think it will stop them from hiring illegals?

What is your opinion of this illegal allowed to sue and wins?

Illegal sues for higher pay – and wins!
Aliens demand companies shell out minimum wage or face state investigation

——————————————————————————–
Posted: January 06, 2009
9:50 pm Eastern

© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Outraged at his low pay and uncompensated overtime, an illegal alien in Boston filed a complaint with the Massachusetts attorney general’s office against a supermarket – and won his case.

The illegal alien from Guatemala spoke to the Boston Globe anonymously because he feared deportation.

“I was just collecting what was rightfully owed to me,” he said in Spanish. “They already pay us a miserable amount of money. Why do they have to rob us?”

The alien spent years at a Super 88 supermarket seafood counter earning $6 an hour instead of the state’s $8 an hour minimum wage. He grew frustrated as the supermarket did not compensate him for his overtime work.

One day, he decided to gather his pay stubs into a plastic bag and deliver them to a lawyer – who turned them over to the state attorney general’s office.

To his surprise, Super 88 was ordered to provide back pay and fines of $200,000 to more than 300 workers, the Globe reported.

Illegal aliens now make up 17 percent of Massachusetts’ workers – twice the state’s 1980 workforce. Authorities have expressed concern that employers sometimes exploit illegals because they believe aliens will not report them to state labor authorities.

“It’s a huge problem,” Russ Davis, executive director of Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, told the Globe. “We really need some major way to address it, and if not, the economy in Massachusetts is going to spiral down into sweatshop conditions.”

Super 88′s owners are said to be Vietnamese immigrants who did were not aware with the state’s labor laws. Now they are paying penalties and back wages and are subject to state monitoring.

According to the report, Attorney General Martha Coakley has staffed bilingual employees, allowed complaints to be filed in 90 languages and provided logbooks to nonprofit organizations to help illegal aliens track their hours.

Now state officials are implementing a no tolerance policy for companies that don’t compensate illegals.

In November, 764 former workers at a New Bedford factory raided by U.S. immigration agents won an $850,000 settlement. The company was forced to pay overtime wages.

In May, C-Mart Supermarket in Chinatown was forced to pay $66,000 for not adhering to state minimum wage.

The seafood worker from Super 88, a father of five, said he worked 14 hours every day, six days a week since 2004 at the $6 rate. He said he applied there after his job painting houses for $10 an hour became too hazardous. He was working without a harness and standing on old ladders.

“It’s like we’re worth nothing,” he said. “I was worried. But I was also worried about my family because I had to send them money.”

According to the Globe, the attorney general’s office never asks about a worker’s citizenship status because officials claim their intention is to enforce state law – not federal immigration law.

Steve Kropper, cochair of Massachusetts Citizens for Immigration Reform, said illegals are not entitled to minimum wage because they are not citizens.

“No government resources should be devoted to the rights of people who are here illegally,” he said. “They broke the law by being here. They had no right to the job.”

http://worldnetdaily.com

I think it is totally disgusting when he should not have even been employed in the first place!!!!

WEIRD QUESTION asked:


I am applying for a summer job.They require me to have a valid passport or a certificate of citizenship.My passport had expired and it will take time to renew, so i don’t the time to get the passport before my deadline for the summer job.So i was wondering how long it would take to apply for a certificate of citizenship.
Info:
I am under 15
I was not born in American
A Permanent Resident In Massachusetts
Both my parents are Citizen with a Certificate

Vanessa C asked:

I lived since 1997 in Usa, state of Massachusetts unfortunately illegaly, not because I want to, On that time I was young, had no much experience of life and my country, BRAZIL, it is difficult to get a job even if you have a Bachelor degree as me, so I went to USA, left my work at the Bank in Brazil, my salary was $ 300,00 per month and try to make a better life in USA. When I get there I subject myself in work in any kind of jobs like, cleaning, factory even lke that I was happier, I could have a independent life, no financial problems. I always pay my taxes with my ITIN, I had a legal Driver’s license from Massachusetts , a had a excellent credit and everything, all of my dreams never were realized, I wish that I had the chance to be legal in USA some day because I love USA with all my heart, I learned how to speak,write and thinking in english, communication wasn’t a problem for me anymore. But right now with the economic trouble that Mr. BUSCH with so many wars and wrong ideas putting the USA into a large recession made me get back to Brazil, but I’m still crying, USA lives in my heart, I will always think about your country, it never was mine, but I wish was. I went to see 5 lawyers, THEY SAID THERE IS NOT IMMIGRATION LAWs at this moment, what is the problem? We don’t want to take any american job, we want to fill the empty spaces, that’s all. My dream and I pray everyday that if Obhama open a immigration law bringing everybody back I will go, because I love your country even more then mine.

new name asked:

Illegal work force can generate taxes but also has costs
Opponents: Cheap labor is no bargain

http://www.telegram.com/article/20090705/NEWS/907050397/1052

By Paula J. Owen CORRESPONDENT
LEOMINSTER — It seems incongruous to some that immigrants living illegally in this country can get work permits, find jobs and even pay taxes without being deported.

Bob Dane, spokesman for the Washington, D.C.-based Federation for American Immigration Reform, said the problem is unscrupulous employers who provide illegal immigrants with jobs.

“Cheap labor isn’t a bargain,” he said. “Employers’ costs are transferred to Americans. In Massachusetts, $580 million is spent annually to subsidize immigration.”

FAIR estimates there are 11.6 million illegal immigrants in the United States. The organization doesn’t align itself with the camp that contends mass deportation of 12 million illegal immigrants is the answer, but it doesn’t believe mass amnesty makes much sense, either. More border patrol agents and interior enforcement are needed, Mr. Dane said, along with increasing document verification — “so we know who is who.”

“For all we know, 20 people could be using your Social Security number right now,” he said.

Even when an immigrant pays taxes, it costs Americans more than the immigrant contributes into the system, according to Mr. Dane.

“We’re not soft-hearted on illegals if they pay taxes,” he said. “It’s a down payment on the enormous cost they have on the U.S.”

The largest cost of illegals is K-12 education, totaling $28.6 billion annually, Mr. Dane said. Of that, $12 billion is spent annually to educate illegal alien students and the remainder is to educate U.S.-born children of illegal aliens, who are considered U.S. citizens.

Alicia J. Alvez of Leominster came to the United States illegally 20 years ago. Like many illegal immigrants, she pays taxes with a tax identification number that she obtained from the Internal Revenue Service.

Many illegal immigrants work two or three jobs to survive, Ms. Alvez said. “You have to work double because they pay you less.”

She, like many others, contends that the United States needs illegal immigrants. “We are a large part of the work force.”

But according to a report compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies, the number of unemployed Americans with a high school education or less — those who compete for employment with illegal immigrants — has increased significantly over the past 10 years.

Kirk A. Carter, an immigration lawyer at Fletcher, Tilton & Whipple in Worcester, said obtaining a TIN through the IRS is relatively easy for an illegal immigrant.

“Immigrants have been doing it for years,” he said. “They use a TIN number like a Social Security number. They pay millions, if not billions, of dollars that is taken from them and put into the Social Security retirement fund that they will never see any money from.”

Peggy Riley, an IRS media relations specialist, said TINs are not valid as IDs outside the tax system because they are strictly for tax processing. Strict standards for identification are not applied when issuing a TIN, she said, and a TIN does not change a person’s immigration status or right to work.

Mr. Dane criticized the IRS policy of not checking a person’s immigration status when issuing a TIN. “The IRS is a collection agency and they just want their money,” he said.

While resources are available for enforcing immigration work laws, he added, only employers are targeted and the illegal population remains largely untouched. “It sends the message it is OK to come and work as long as you don’t get caught,” he said. “Enforcement should target both supply and demand.”

I’m gonna start another riot asked:

What’s the difference between an illegal alien stealing an American job, and Martin Luther King Jr. fighting for American rights?Don’t know? Congratulations, you too could be on the Boston City Council!Led by Councilor at Large Sam Yoon, the council passed a resolution last week endorsing something called the “Welcoming Massachusetts Pledge.” No, it’s not an effort to promote tourism – unless the word “tourist” has replaced “undocumented worker” as the amnesty crowd’s euphemism of choice.The pledge is instead a document declaring that every illegal immigrant has the “unalienable right” to come and live in Massachusetts. As a result, enforcing immigration laws “violates civil and human rights of immigrants.”

All immigrants? No, just the “undocumented tourists.”

Do our city councilors really believe that illegal immigration is a “civil rights” issue? If they have any vague familiarity with the English language, surely they know that “civil” issues are those that relate to “citizenship.” Citizens have civil rights. Foreign terrorists in Guantanamo Bay and off-the-books Brazilian painters in Jamaica Plain do not.

Well, actually, Brazilian, Mexican and Irish illegal immigrants do have civil rights. To claim them, they need only return to (respectively) Brazil, Mexico and Ireland.

What made the Jim Crow era so offensive was watching American citizens being turned away from American ballot boxes. Citizens from Maine to Malibu didn’t march for black people; they marched for American people.

Bull Connor took from Dr. King his rights as an American. Illegal immigrants steal across our border to take the privileges of America, and jobs, from Americans. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1072934

The pledge is instead a document declaring that every illegal immigrant has the “unalienable right” to come and live in Massachusetts.
Do they also have the unalienable right to steal other people’s social security numbers and ID’s to get jobs there too

ExServer asked:

I am just interested if it is possible since marriage to homosexuals has been granted in Massachusetts!