No! We Really, Really Want Slaves

And I'm shocked, really...

This just in from Greenberg Traurig a big time lobbying firm in Washington. They've taken a position on the Sensenbrenner-King bill, H.R. 4437.

The Business Immigration Group was disappointed by the passage of Rep. Sensenbrenner’s ‘enforcement only’ legislation. We do not believe that this is the best approach, nor do we believe the specifics of the legislation to be realistic or practical. GT is working diligently with Members of the Senate on real comprehensive immigration reform that address the issues that are plaguing our immigration system. To this end GT’s Business Immigration Group firmly supports a temporary worker program and some form of an earned adjustment program as part of legislation to be introduced by the Senate.

CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 4437 would cost an estimated $1.9 billion over the five year period between 2006-2010. These costs would continue and grow significantly after 2010, as additional requirements of the bill would be implemented. Specifically, the bill which directs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), within two years from the bills enactment, to extend a system to verify the eligibility of persons for employment in the U.S. CBO estimates that this would cost about $405 million over the 2006-2010, including $185 million for DHS, $200 million for Social Security Administration (SSA) and $20 million for other federal agencies.

Discouraged by the passage of the H.R. 4437, and the unfunded mandates it places on employers and the absence of a temporary worker program, the business community stands united to work with the Senate on a real comprehensive immigration reform bill.

Stop the presses! Businesses might actually have to follow the law? saints forbid it!

Businesses might be denied the slave labor they've become so dependent on, I won't stand for it. For god's sake people, we deserve slave labor in America, it's our right and privilege, right?

I don't care if it would cost every penny in the treasury to make this happen because doing the right thing...

Priceless!

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