65,000+ Haitians in Miami-Dade to get TPS and work permits, Crist might suspend Davis-Bacon wage act

[Billy Burnett]

My question... what jobs? :shrug:

Miami-Dade has one of the highest unemployment stats in the US.


Edit:

Just heard this on Miami local TeeVee news.

Governor Crist could approve suspension of Davis-Bacon (prevailing wage laws) to help "accommodate" jobs for these Haitians. :puke:

[HipChick]

1. are they forced to stay in miami-dade?

[janedum]

2. THAT was my 1st thought!! WHAT JOBS?? President NoJobs has been 2 busy w/"Healthcare" 2 create jobs!

and how do you PAY for healthcare when you have NO job?

[liberalmuse]

9. FAIL.

You've come to the wrong site. I think you meant to go here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/*/index

[janedum]

3. What happened to all the jobs Obama was to create out of thin air?

[Obamanaut]

4. And that is only a portion of the total of the 200,000 potential

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/breaking-news/story/1435825.html

<snip>Federal immigration officials are expecting up to 200,000 undocumented Haitian immigrants, including nearly 68,000 in South Florida, to apply for a new federal immigration program that would allow the migrants to legally remain and work in the United States for 18 months.

The estimated number of potential applicants for Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, is far larger than earlier predictions of about 30,000 Haitians nationwide, according to local immigrant organizations and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials.

<remainder of article at link>

If they don't remain healthy and uninjured, the ERs will REALLY be overloaded.

[Billy Burnett]

5. Unrepentant kick on shock doctrine for S Fla.

:kick:

[rfranklin]

7. This is the importation of extreme wage slavery into the U.S.

In Haiti, a person who makes $3 per day is considered highly compensated.

[glowing]

6. So, 65,000 Hatians will no replace workers for less than min. wage.

Good job Crist. If they would start working on the high-speed rail they were supposed to 10yrs ago, the state would gladly love the added work force.

[Billy Burnett]

8. Not less than min wage, less than legal prevailing wage.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=davis+bacon+act&aq=6&aql=&aqi=g10&oq=davis

[Raineyb]

13. So the govenor is using the crisis in Haiti to break labor?

It smells no matter how you slice it.

[Obamanaut]

11. See post 4. 65,000 is only a portion of the nationwide total. nt

[madrchsod]

10. well some of them will form their own street gangs

or be recruited by the existing ones.

what will these people do and where will they live..

[treestar]

12. They were already in the U.S.

Does a governor have power to make such a suspension?

[anonymous171]

14. Oh wow. Domestic Disaster Capitalism.

The Empire really is eating itself.

[flyarm]

15. we in Fla have 11.8 % unemployment..so where are they going to find jobs?

and in some counties it is over 14% and that is just those that are in the current records..it is way higher than that..you know it ans so do I..so are they going to send them to "YOUR STATE?"..because my state of Fla has no jobs!

Of course Obama is coming here the day after his state of the union speech..supposedly going to pay for the high speed rail between Orlando and Tampa..from what the teasers keep telling us on TV..maybe they can do the work and truely fuck the American workers??

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

16. Great, Mariel Boatlift II

This can only go fantastic!