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...nearly 20 years, it has been a crime to hire illegal aliens. Amid an earlier surge in illegal immigration, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which provided that employers could be fined up to $10,000 for every illegal alien they hired, and repeat offenders could be sent to jail. The act was a response to the widespread belief that employer sanctions were the only way to stem the tide. "We need employer sanctions to reduce the attraction of jobs in the U.S.," an INS spokesman declared as Congress debated the bill. When President Ronald Reagan...
...What it means is the Republicans [must] get their act together, and understand that the country actually expects the majority to implement. They hire you to govern, not just to tell them why you are right. If they can't do that, at some point, whether it's '06 or '08, the country will decide to take a flyer on the Democrats, because they just get tired of it. That's how American politics works...
...time in which any number of possible events--the capture of Osama bin Laden, for instance, or positive developments out of Iraq--could sweeten the nation's mood. Gingrich says Republicans badly need accomplishments to tell voters about. "The country actually expects the majority to implement," he says. "They hire you to govern, not just to tell them why you are right...
...Though it may not be all that shocking to hear that employers are reluctant to hire people who?ve served time, there's a lesser-known side of the tragedy: it turns out that the mere existence of those black men who?ve gone to prison can also ruin the job prospects of black men without criminal records, according to several studies conducted by Georgetown University economist Harry Holzer and several colleagues...
...Holzer asked employers of low-skilled jobs whether they would hire someone who?d been to prison and whether they conduct background checks on applicants to find out. The answers were a bit surprising-especially for prisoner advocates who have come out against background checks. Employers who said they conducted such checks were, in fact, more likely to hire black males overall than those who didn?t bother...