Barack Obama eases fines on companies hiring illegal aliens

  One of the positions many liberals take in the battle over illegal immigration is this: we should not punish those who come to America to seek a better life by obtaining work in the United States for they are simply doing the jobs that Americans will not do and somebody has to do these jobs. To be fair it is not only liberals who take this position, we have seen a growing number of establishment Republicans, including George Bush, take this position.  

  But there is a distinction between many of the Republicans and the liberals when it comes to this and that is that many liberals claim we should be going after the greedy corporations which seek to hire low wage earners instead of higher priced American workers whereas the Republicans seem to want to protect these corporations from penalty by simply focusing on the immigration aspect. This is why, in my opinion, many of the Republicans support amnesty for illegal aliens–they are in bed with their corporate masters.

  I happen to believe that any immigration reform should crack down on people who enter this country illegally, regardless of how pure some of their motives might be, AND the corporations which hire them, but apparently the president does not feel the same way, even though he promised to crack down on corporations that hire illegals.

   A new audit has been released by the Homeland Security’s Inspector General which finds that Barack Obama has eased the fines of corporations which hire illegal immigrants by an average of 40%.

The Obama administration regularly cuts a break for businesses that hire illegal immigrants, reducing their fines by an average of 40 percent from what they should be, according to an audit released Tuesday that suggests the government could be doing more to go after unscrupulous employers.

According to the audit, conducted by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cut one business’s fine from $4.9 million to slightly more than $1 million — a 78 percent drop.

Investigators said the reduction is legal, but it may be undercutting the administration’s goal of getting tough on businesses that hire illegal immigrants.

“The knowledge that fines can be significantly reduced may diminish the effectiveness of fines as a deterrent to hiring unauthorized workers,” the inspector general said.

While most of the attention in the immigration debate goes to illegal immigrants themselves, analysts say the problem would be much smaller if businesses would abide by employment laws.

Under President Obama, the federal government was supposed to be putting more of an emphasis on going after employers. ICE specifically announced that it would conduct more audits of the I-9 forms all businesses are required to keep demonstrating that their employees are authorized to work in the U.S.

The goal was to try to ramp up pressure on businesses to hire legal workers.

  The American worker is being sold down the river and this push for amnesty is the latest example. A portion of both parties support amnesty, albeit for different reasons, and it is because both parties are putting the priorities of their special interest groups ahead of the priorities of the American worker and at least on this one issue Barack Obama seems to be on the same page as many Republicans and their corporate masters.