Obligatory warning: the following excerpts are from a "right wing website":
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Worse, the Bush administration has just floated the idea of a new permanent wage depreciation policy for American workers, via an illegal alien-worker amnesty scheme purportedly to impress Hispanic voters.
This will be accomplished through a plan to essentially create a high-tech classifieds section on the Department of Labor Web site. According to administration officials, employers would post their jobs on this site, and any jobs not filled by Americans within a certain time frame would then be offered to immigrants – legal or otherwise.
But more important, however – as Pat Buchanan pointed out recently – is the probability employers will post jobs at far below current pay scales, just to be able to attract lower-wage earning immigrants and save themselves the higher rates of pay needed by American workers.
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Not all Americans are college material. Some simply have no choice but to find a low-skill or menial labor job in order to make a living. If all of those jobs are taken away, what will these American workers do?
Your government: putting cutting-edge technology to work to make America a Third World country....
more here:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/2/25/161654.shtml