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posted by: Dan Viens Web Producer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Employers would face fines as high as $20,000 for hiring undocumented workers and have to screen all new hires as part of legislation that would grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., scheduled a test vote for Wednesday setting up the bill for passage a day later. Supporters predicted they would have the 60 votes need to prevail. Frist predicted Wednesday that the bill would pass the Senate with "not overwhelming support but very strong support" and that a legislative compromise would be reached with the House on a comprehensive immigration bill that President Bush will sign. |
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CHICAGO, May 15 — As Jose F. watched President Bush's address from an apartment on this city's Northwest side, he shook his head fiercely at moments: at the prospect of tamper-proof identification cards for legal workers, at the many mentions of increased border security, and at what he saw, in the end, as uncertainty of the future Mr. Bush intended for illegal immigrants like himself.
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FORT WORTH, Texas Two executives of a company that hired illegal immigrants for janitorial work at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport are going to prison. A federal judge in Fort Worth today sentenced Karen Sue Rowell, president of Midwest Airport Services, to nine months in prison. Edward John Pitre, who's the company's former operations manager, was sentenced to 15 months behind bars. |
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By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY
The sun is barely up over the horizon when Juan Reyes arrives at Casa de Maryland, which operates a job site for day laborers here. Most days he comes to this parking lot to wait for painting, landscaping or other jobs. Reyes mills about with the other men who sit in groups quietly talking or sharing steaming tamales eaten off paper plates. He needs work, he says, so he can send money to support his three children, ages 18, 12 and 10, in Guatemala.
"Sometimes it's very hard, very hard (to find work)," says Reyes, 36, who is an undocumented worker who lives in Takoma Park. Still, he says, employers rarely ask to see paperwork and hire him even though he's in the country illegally. "They never ask."
But pressure is on to change that. Last month, the Department of Homeland Security vowed to expand its efforts to target employers who hire illegal immigrants, with Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff pledging to "counter the unscrupulous tactics of employers."
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By Alan Elsner
A one-day nationwide strike and business boycott got underway on Monday to demand legal rights for millions of illegal immigrants, with many U.S. businesses shutting down voluntarily to avoid disruption. Early reports suggested many of the estimated 11.5-12 million illegal immigrants in the country were obeying a call to stay away from work and boycott businesses, despite a mixed message from immigrant-rights organizations, some of which opposed the action. In New York City's Union Square, the normally bustling open-air market operated at a fraction of its typical activity. On Broadway, the usually chaotic sidewalk shops of cheap import goods were mostly shuttered. |
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