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Title: Spokesman for President Bush Posts on Free Republic About Immigration Bill
Source: Free Republic
URL Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1850240/posts
Published: Jun 14, 2007
Author: posted by Kristinn
Post Date: 2007-06-14 16:55:12 by Ferret Mike
Keywords: None
Views: 269
Comments: 4

A spokeman for the Bush administration sent an e-mail to Jim Robinson and myself confirming the authenticity of a post on Free Republic this afternoon regarding the immigration bill currently before the Senate as having been posted on behalf of the White House.

The spokesman, Nicholas Thompson, works for the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives. The Politico reported yesterday that Thompson and Kerrie Rushton, associate directors in the Office of Strategic Initiatives who work under Karl Rove, would be engaging the blogosphere on the immigration bill.

Thompson's post is on the thread titled Penalty Mitigation in the Immigration Reform Bill, a vanity posted by philman_36. Thompson posted at comment #53.

Thompson's e-mail to Free Republic included a brief introduction and the text of his posted comment:

Hi,

I just wanted to let you know that I just posted a response to the post "Penalty Mitigation in the Immigration Reform Bill."

The White House appreciates the opportunity to respond on Free Republic.

Response: I would like to point out that the Secretary is authorized to reduce or mitigate penalities against employers who in good faith are trying to comply with the law. Certainly, we understand that not all employers knowingly hire illegal immigrants; this will remain the case, especially before the bill’s new secure documentation requirements are fully phased in. We do not seek to wrongly penalize honest employers who unknowingly hire illegal immigrants, therefore we reserve the right to reduce or mitigate their penalties if the employer can show good faith compliance in following the law.

For those employers who do knowingly hire illegal immigrants, please know that we intend to penalize these employers strongly, and the Administration has already stepped up these penalties in the last couple of years. For example, a 2005 program, “Operation Rollback,” assessed $15,000,000 in civil fines to employers, an amount greater than the sum of administrative fines collected in the previous eight years and was the largest worksite enforcement penalty in US history. In the first quarter of FY07, criminal and civil forfeitures have totaled $26,700,000 for employers.

As a reminder of what’s in the bill, fines for hiring an illegal worker are $5,000 maximum per illegal worker for the first offense, $10,000 maximum per illegal worker for the second, $25,000 maximum per illegal worker for the third , and $75,000 maximum per illegal worker for the fourth. In addition, the bill increases the maximum criminal penalty for a pattern or practice of unlawful hiring twenty-five-fold, from $3,000 to $75,000, and would impose a prison term of up to six months. This represents a significant increase in fines for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.

Nicholas Thompson White House Office of Strategic Initiatives

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#1. To: Ferret Mike (#0)

The administration's corporate masters seem to be getting desperate.

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

aristeides  posted on  2007-06-14   16:59:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: aristeides (#1)

He ought to just declare martial law and see what happens. Everyone knows he's a madman (although sane when viewed against Cheney) and more or less expects this to happen at some point.

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston

Sam Houston  posted on  2007-06-14   17:16:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Ferret Mike (#0)

Hey Nicholas:

Read this! And tell your boss.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition

IndieTX  posted on  2007-06-14   17:45:26 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Ferret Mike (#0)

For those employers who do knowingly hire illegal immigrants, please know that we intend to penalize these employers strongly,

And the litmus test for who gets punished, and who does not, is now set at what level of donation to the Republicrats, please?

We do need some guidance here for your faithful followers/supporters/other- nutcases.

The Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

richard9151  posted on  2007-06-14   18:16:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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