Unions Are Training Hotel Workers to Face Down Immigration Raids

Seems some Unions are on the defensive and are apparently "training" workers to avoid Federal Immigration Agents !

How to dodge.

How to not show ID.

And it seems Unions are using collective bargaining as a "tool" and want employers to not cooperate when ICE comes-a-calling.


Something not quite making sense with this.

If workers are actually employed and have documents to prove they are "legal" to work or they are Citizens or have Green Cards, what are the Unions so nervous about ?

Unless some of the union "activities" are supplying fake ID and phony documents ?

Hmmm.


Unions Are Training Hotel Workers to Face Down Immigration Raids

Hotel workers in cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York have been gathering for training sessions recently on how to handle visits from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The sessions, organized by the labor union Unite Here!, teach workers how to effectively stonewall ICE agents, emphasizing employees’ right to refuse to answer questions or show identification.

Organizers don dark sunglasses or jackets and role-play as ICE agents, with a “good cop” entreating the volunteers with lines such as “You look like a good person,” and a bad cop screaming threats at them. “I need you guys to be just absolute assholes,” organizer Hugo Soto, a former hotel worker who helped develop the training program, tells colleagues when preparing them to portray agents. “We need to train ourselves to be able to beat ICE.”

a reply to: xuenchen

Why don't they go after the hotel's and make it impossible to hire more than a few?

Funny how the labor keeps getting hit but not the cause.

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originally posted by: luthier
a reply to: xuenchen

Why don't they go after the hotel's and make it impossible to hire more than a few?

Funny how the labor keeps getting hit but not the cause.

www.newsbusters.org...

Excellent question !!

So you are 100% in favor of enforcing the current laws.

a reply to: xuenchen

I'm sure there is a whole cottage industry setup for the hotel industry to provide "legal" documents. I wouldn't be surprised to see some hardworking people working in 3 far apart states at the same time.

a reply to: xuenchen

Luthier wants to go after employers as the primary, which is the ultimate turning off the spigot.

I agree. E-Verify should be used and catch all the stolen actual social security numbers.

All the dark, dirty, demented dung is going to be exposed soon. Of course unions are probably at the forefront of much of the dirty dealings!

It will be uncomfortable at first, but those that have been abusing the system, crapping on the constitution, giving a finger to the rule of law, and mucking up everything by unconstitutional and illegal practices are going to pay dearly for it soon.

a reply to: xuenchen

I am but believe the scapegoating of the illegal labor is a boogeyman tactic to delay or outright stall employer prosecutions.

I think it's like trying to blow your nose to cure polio.

I also believe that once the word gets out its impossible to get employed rather than getting flyers and housing promises from employers it will make a far greater impact.

I believe going after the labor alone and building a wall will do absolutely nothing to stop the majority of the problem.

As long as there is work they will come in on containers, boats, hand made subs, tunnels, and through simple bribes.

Then there is still the labor void problem so we need a temp visa system and possibly some sort of pathway for the people smuggled here against their will as kids. Probably paid for by all the money you confiscate from the cheating employers.

Wonder if anyone has estimated the total yearly profit from employing about 8 million illegals, as well as consumer cost savings?

I know the national review has talked about employers being the main problem and obviously the link I posted but most people seem to believe the boogeyman thing is going to solve it

a reply to: luthier

A valid conspiracy.

But why are unions trying to stop employers from cooperating with the Feds ?

That's the issue in this thread.

a reply to: xuenchen

Because....MONEY.

But let's not pretend the hotel's are upset they don't have to pay employee taxes and workman's comp.

Also I would like to see the actual problem fixed. As a former carpenter who gave up the profession because of the illegal labor.

Yet I still don't blame the illegals as much as the enablers and recruiters. I knewill contractors that sent their people back to Mexico to recruit and bought condos to stuff them in. In many sw boom towns they had huge labor voids to just couple the problem.

Sorry to I guess derail? But it's just very important to me we actually fix this and look at the reality rather than build a scapegoat.

www.texastribune.org...

a reply to: xuenchen

The unions are there to protect their workers. What an upside down world we live in.

a reply to: xuenchen

Why are Dimocrats so racist against illegal immigrants?

They want to keep them here for cheap labor.

a reply to: DrStevenBrule

Texas is Democrat?

crack down on Texas employers who hire undocumented workers, it was status quo last session in the state Senate that Patrick oversees. And illegal hiring practices in the Texas workplace, which the state has authority to police, have largely gone missing from his public outrage over the porous border and illegal immigration.

That’s not political apostasy. It’s the default posture in pro-business Texas — and one of the increasingly rare areas where Republicans and Democrats come together in common cause year after year.

FrI'm article posted above.

Or this.

Rick Perry stands by in-state tuition for students in Texas illegally


Or

Apparently, the first leg of the project was too important to entrust to American workers. In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court, members of House Wreckers Local 95 alleged that, to avoid paying union employees their pension and welfare benefits, Trump (and the contractor he used for the job, Kaszycki & Sons) brought in some 200 undocumented Polish workers to demolish the Bonwit Teller building that then occupied the site of the future Trump Tower.
www.google.com...

edit on 20-9-2017 by luthier because: (no reason given)