That also includes economic dislocation for the worker. It means economic difficulty for the entire country. just to give the appearance of the extension of civil rights to individuals who are already covered and protected by existing civil rights statutes. In the Wall Street Journal of October 15. 1986. the lead news analysis story on the front page focuses on "the new drive by U.S. unions to organize millions of undocumented workers in such immigrant meccas as Houston. Chicago. Los Angeles. New York. and San Francisco." A variety of unions are actively recruiting illegal aliens. These organizations include the UAW. the ILGWU. the Teamsters Union. the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Union. A Los Angeles ILGWU organizer admits that he began his own career as an undocumented worker. though he does not mention the way he removed the taint of his illegal status. What kind of fundamental fairness exists in an immigration policy which penalizes employers civilly and criminally from employing undocumented workers. but then allows the labor unions to do exactly what the employers are prohibited from doing? This is. as I have already said. bad policy and bad law. My good friends in labor should no more be exempt from the reach of the law than any other group.
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