November 02, 2006
On behalf of six illegal immigrant workers, including the widow of a Mexican killed on a Brooklyn demolition site, the American Civil Liberties Union and other law and labor groups charged yesterday that the United States has failed to protect basic workplace rights guaranteed under international law.The ACLU is attempting to subvert the most basic right of all Americans, self governance, in hopes of providing super-national rights to people who have violated US laws to enter the country.The charges came in a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an arm of the Organization of American States, which includes all the 35 nations of the Western Hemisphere.
The petition, filed by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the other groups, is an unusual appeal to an international body to push American courts and lawmakers away from a 2002 Supreme Court ruling known as Hoffman v. National Labor Relations Board. The petitioners say the ruling has had a snowball effect, limiting or denying the basic protection of labor laws to millions of illegal immigrant workers in violation of principles like equal protection before the law and freedom of association under the nation’s international treaty obligations.
It is now officially okay to question their patriotism.
Via Stop the ACLU.
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Posted by: n.a. palm at November 02, 2006 10:29 AM (C2G0Q)
Posted by: Dustin at November 02, 2006 11:21 AM (d+fHI)
If we are in violation of international labor laws and the ACLU and other groups are trying to have those laws enforced, what is the problem with the ACLU?
The NYT article says that "The petition, filed by the A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the other groups...".
Please explain why an organization that defends our constitution and international laws (unlike our fearless leader, who took an oath to defend our constitution, but doesn't), should be vilified for helping to protect workers' rights.
Shouldn't we be vilifying the AFL-CIO and the other groups, also, rather than singleing out the ACLU?
What am I missing?
Posted by: Puddleduck at November 02, 2006 12:33 PM (F+9W9)
Posted by: Jesusland Carlos at November 02, 2006 12:47 PM (8e/V4)
What are you missing? A brain.
Posted by: The Dread Pundit Bluto at November 02, 2006 01:57 PM (vBK4C)
*one word: 'ILLEGAL'
Posted by: guy at November 02, 2006 02:02 PM (C/3DC)
Posted by: Greyrooster at November 02, 2006 03:39 PM (cNF2m)
I have been on this site for a couple of days, now and don't really care who agrees or disagrees with me.
I have no idea who you are talking about.
But I learn very quickly and I can sure see that you must have been deprived of a lot of oxygen during childbirth (one of many on this site).
And Guy - does international law specify that only "legal" immigrants are entitled to be safe on the job?
And how does the ACLU try to destroy our constitution?
Didn't they defend one of your heros, Rush LimpBalls?
Guess I missed that part, too.
As far as I'm concerned, I'd like to see all of the illegal immigrants rounded up, along with all of their anchor children and shipped back to Mexico or whereever the hell they came from.
Then build a wall across the Mexican border to keep all of those fuckers from coming back.
And to fill the jobs that Americans won't do, how about the employers compete for American workers, by offering enough money that Americans will do the jobs, reducing the incentive for illegals to come here?
In the meantime, how about conforming with the laws of the US and the world?
Is that too much to ask, while we are rounding up all the illegals?
Or would you rather to pay the hospital bills for the illegals that get hurt on the job, because safety laws are not being enforced?
Oh, and by the way, I'm also in favor of getting rid of all the legal foreign workers here on visas that are also taking jobs from Americans.
When their visas are up, I say we send them home, as well.
And how about we stop giving American companies incentives to give away jobs to people in other countries?
Aren't you getting tired of America becoming a third world country, one that exports raw materials and imports finished goods?
I know I am.
Posted by: Puddleduck at November 02, 2006 03:44 PM (F+9W9)
Don't tell Bush that the OAS doesn't have an army.
He'll want to launch a pre-emptive strike on them, especially if he finds out that they can't defend themselves.
He needs a victory, somewhere, really badly.
Maybe he could win that war, before the election and declare "Mission Accomplished".
Posted by: Puddleduck at November 02, 2006 03:50 PM (F+9W9)
Even a dumb assed puddleduck can get a few things right.
Puddlefuckhead: Bush just got a victory. Kerry's mouth.
Posted by: Greyrooster at November 02, 2006 05:08 PM (cNF2m)
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Posted by: Greyrooster at November 02, 2006 08:51 PM (cNF2m)
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