Re: <ChicagoMayDay> Not so fast supporting the Gutierrez Immigration Bill

[rosalba priego]

Jorge,
Where do we find the actual proposed bill from Cong. Gutierrez? Also do you know where we can find the actual copy of the Dream Act that was proposed by Sen. Durbin. My council would like to have a Town Hall Meeting and have the facts on what this legislators are proposing and also have you and other community members ask the pertinent questions.
Thanks,
Rosalba Priego
Member of: Mayor Daley's Advisory Council On Latino Affairs

--- On Sat, 11/21/09, J. Mujica <jmuj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: J. Mujica <jmuj...@gmail.com>
> Subject: <ChicagoMayDay> Not  so fast supporting the Gutierrez Immigration  Bill
> To: "ChicagoMayDay" <chicag...@googlegroups.com>
> Date: Saturday, November 21, 2009, 1:08 PM
> On 11/20/09, Mark Day <_mda...@yahoo.com_
> (mailto:mda...@yahoo.com)
> >
> wrote:
> Not  so fast supporting the Gutierrez Immigration
> Reform Bill! explore
> all  the options, says labor and immigration expert
> David Bacon.  Please  read below:
>
>
> Dear Mark --
> More discussion and house parties could be an important
> part of
> building  a
> movement for immigration reform that's based on human
> rights and
> families,
> rather than more enforcement and corporate labor supply
> programs.
> Unfortunately, Gutierrez is proposing the latter, as he has
> done for
> the last
> several years.  Jumping on his bandwagon is not going
> to get us what
> we  want.
> I'm attaching a comparison of Schumer's and Gutierrez' most
> recent
> proposals, since we're being told by the DC advocates that
> this is
> what's on  the
> table, and this is what we have to live with.
>
>
> In deciding whether to support the Gutierrez proposal, it's
> important
> to
> describe it accurately.  Gutierrez calls for increased
> enforcement,
> both  on
> the border and E-Verify in the workplace.  That will
> result in the
> kind of
> firings we saw at American Apparel, and potentially
> workplace raids as
> well.  His proposal for an employment-based visa
> system for future
> flows  is
> essentially the corporate program for contract labor, or
> guest worker
> programs.
>
>
> How many people would be legalized with Gutierrez' bill is
> hard to
> tell.
> First, he's not very specific about what the
> qualifications  are.  And
> second, in Congress in recent years legalization proposals
> have  wound
> up
> including huge fines, long waits, lots of
> disqualifications, and
> other barriers.
>
>
> Lastly, there's no proposal for dealing with the source of
> migration
> --
> NAFTA and the other economic policies imposed on countries
> like
> Mexico, to
> make it easier for big companies to make profits while
> displacing
> millions of
> people through increased poverty, agricultural dumping,
> privatization,
> job
> loss, and busted unions.  Without some effort to fix
> this, imposing
> more
> enforcement will simply create more undocumented people.
>
>
> If we want something that really represents what we want
> and know will
> move us toward rights and equality, we have to build a
> movement to
> get  it.
> Getting stampeded into bills proposing guest workers and
> more
> enforcement,
> with the justification that "it's the only way to get
> something  now,"
> avoids
> the need to organize and fight for what we really
> want.   This is the
> same
> way many DC advocates have tried to force the corporate
> labor
> supply/enforcement bills as the only proposals for
> consideration for
> the last  few years.
>
>
> An immigration system based on providing employers a labor
> supply,
> with
> enforcement to make workers participate, is what
> corporations want,
> not what
> we want.  It's the same bad deal that was on the table
> in the
> Kennedy-McCain bill, and the other corporate immigration
> reform bills
> that  died in the
> last several years.  Most of the draconian
> enforcement  proposals
> we've seen
> implemented over the last several years were actually 
> first proposed
> in
> those bills.  They were then supported by the
> rationale  that the only
> way to
> get legalization was to agree to them.  That's
> what  we're going to
> hear
> again -- in fact, we're hearing it already.
>
>
> Why don't we fight for what we really want?
>
>
> David
>
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