by DanB » Tue Feb 07, 2017 11:53 am
"....Sanctuary Restaurants, prominently displaying window signs that they are a safe place for undocumented immigrants, Blacks, Muslims, and the LGBTQ community."
On a practical level this seems pretty stupid. Of those four classes of people, one of them represents a violation of the law by employee, employer, or both. So if you're employing illegal immigrants, it seems pretty dumb to put up a sign advertising the fact and attracting the attention of the authorities. If I understand the ROC statement they are actually coaching both employers and employees on how to break the law. Personally I'm not down with that.
And 1.3 million illegals working in restaurants? That's a huge number. If I'm in charge (not that I'll ever be in charge) I'd be looking deport at least half that many and a similar number in construction and use the opportunity to offer employment to African-American youth (currently unemployed at somewhere between 35-50%) and I'd also release a whole bunch of the c.a. 400K young African American men incarcerated on petty, non-violent weed charges and give them jobs too.
Not that I know anything about the practicality of locating and deporting undocumented immigrants but if you could open up c.a. 1 million jobs for a demographic that's been getting the shaft since forever that would be a worthwhile solution.