Council Member Johnny Pineda
August 5, 2015
By Lorra B.
Joining the Health and Education Commission will be illegal immigrant Frank Medina and Julian Zatarain (also an illegal immigrant) will be joining the Parks and Recreation Commission in Huntington Park California.
History, it is in fact in the making as the city of Huntington Park will be the first ever to position illegal immigrants as commissioners within the city council.
Although Councilman Jhonny Pineda has no intention of backing down from this decision, he is not being met without opposition. Not everyone is happy about his choices and, perhaps, rightfully so.
According to CBS/KCAL9 reporter Kara Finnstrom, a woman screamed at the council-member’s saying, “You are out of order!”
“We’re sending the wrong message,” the woman said. “You can be illegal and you can come and work for the city!”
And would this woman be wrong? Isn’t that exactly the message being sent? It would seem, then, that a precedent will be set and every illegal immigrant will, therefore, have an argument for employment in the United States based by that precedent.
In many minds this is not a smart move.
32 year old Pineda, however, is defending his position and refusing to back down his endeavor to position illegal immigrants into City Council Commissioners.
Many American citizens are displeased and wondering where the alliance of Medina and Zatarain lies, with their native country or that of the United States. With all the chaos and terror going on in the world right now, their concerns are warranted.
An Official is someone described as “Someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either his own or that of his superior and/or employer, public or legally private),” according to Wikipedia.
The very disregard for our government authority is being played out by the illegal immigrants Medina and Zatarain. If they want the government official positions they should do the right thing and become Legal Immigrants. Councilman Pineda should be standing behind THAT and not the encouragement for future illegal immigrants to take over official positions or the jobs in this country.
Pineda has a different vision, however, saying, “We need to make sure that we bring everyone together to the table here in Huntington Park so that we make sure we’re sharing the same vision.”
What do you think America? America has already changed so dramatically over the last 7 years. Do we support the potential historic appointments or do we see this as the beginning of the end of an already dramatically changed America of our youths…an America left truly without borders?
By Lorra B.
Illegal immigrants stand to make out nicely, seeing a big jump in their wages under President Obama’s policy, announced Thursday, granting millions of them temporary amnesty and the chance to work legally, but analysts say American workers in some jobs are likely to feel a pinch from new competitors.
While most of the illegal immigrants to whom Mr. Obama granted tentative legal status were already under little fear of deportation, they were usually working in the shadows, either off-the-books or using a bogus Social Security number that trapped them in low-skilled jobs and left them vulnerable to abuse by unscrupulous employers.
But Mr. Obama said millions of them will now be granted legal work permits along with their official stays of deportation, giving them a chance to seek better-paying jobs, demand a minimum wage and report workplace safety violations without fear of retribution.
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Those new protections could produce an average wage jump of 12 percent, according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate attached to last year’sSenate immigration bill.Native-born workers, however, will see a more mixed picture — and those in some low-skilled jobs, particularly ones that require a background check, such as drivers, school janitors or hired security guards, are likely to face new competition, saidSteven A. Camarota, research director at the Center for Immigration Studies.
Mr. Camarota said illegal immigrants have probably been unable to win jobs that require more than a Social Security number because their legal status could be discovered during a more in-depth background check. But Mr. Obama’s new policy gives them legal work authority, clearing the way for them to apply for those posts.
“We face an employment crisis for the less-educated citizen population in this country, and the president is about to issue 5 million work permits for these folks to compete directly with those folks,” Mr. Camarota said.
The newly legal workers are unlikely to affect most of the labor market, chiefly because of the demographics of the illegal immigrant population. They are low-skilled and less educated — Mr. Camarota says they have an average of just 10 or 11 years of schooling, or less than a high school diploma — which means they will be competing with similarly situated Americans.
But Mr. Obama was also reportedly planning to increase the number of visas available to foreigners with science, math or engineering skills, which would create competition in those fields as well. Technology companies have pleaded for the extra workers, saying there’s a shortage in the U.S., but associations representing tech workers say that’s untrue and accuse the companies of trying to import foreign workers to undercut U.S. wages.
Jared Bernstein, former chief economic adviser to Mr. Obama and now senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said Mr. Obama’s plan doesn’t fit into the usual supply-and-demand calculations of available workers and open jobs because the immigrants are already here. That means there’s less danger of a job shock.
The chief effect, he said, will be better wages and conditions for the newly legal workers who are able to demand the going wage without fear of being threatened with exposure. Mr. Bernstein said that’s also good for native workers in those fields, because employers won’t be able to undercut them by hiring unauthorized workers.
“The most important dynamic here will be one that’s beneficial to these newly legalized workers themselves [and] also to the people who compete with them, because it’s much harder to compete with someone who can be paid much less than they’re worth,” he said.
Mr. Bernstein said while there may be some competition for jobs in some fields, the numbers involved in the president’s announcement aren’t big enough to create a major disruption for native workers.
He warned of a number of uncertainties, including questions about how many of those eligible for the new program will actually take advantage of it. Given that the program is temporary, he said some immigrants may be reluctant to identify themselves to federal authorities, fearing the program would be reversed by a future president.
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