12/28/2006
Kaus writes "According to Tamar Jacoby, the recent arrest of 1,300 suspected illegal workers at six Swift & Co. meat processing plants demonstrates the need for 'comprehensive immigration reform.' I don’t understand"There follows a lengthy deconstruction of Tamar’s arguments (this takes a long time, I've done it myself) but for blog purposes I'll extract one:
Jacoby notes that when Swift & Company "tried inquiring" more deeply into the backgrounds of job applicants, it was "sued for discrimination by the Justice Department." Couldn’t President Bush — if he cares so much about workplace enforcement — have told the Justice Department to cut it out? If a conservative Republican president won’t rule out crying "discrimination" when immigration laws are applied, why do we think a liberal Democratic administration will? Our idea doesn’t work! Let’s do it!- By Mickey Kaus — Slate Magazine
See here for Bush’s normal attitude to workplace enforcement, here for his "feeling the heat" attitude, and see Marcus Epstein’s Indiscriminate Anti-Discrimination Enforcement: Why Is It Illegal To Check For Illegals for the crazy activities of the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices .
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