Illegal immigrants will get the jobs

Daily Record
2/24/2009

Rep. Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, R-Harding, asks that, if we want the most bang for the buck, why are stimulus construction projects subjected to the Davis-Bacon Act? The answer is simple: this is not about getting the cheapest labor.

The act was passed during the Great Depression to reserve jobs on federal projects for local workers and to ensure people were paid prevailing wages.

This was in response to contractors hiring exploited black Americans as cheap labor. Today it would be foreigners.

It is unconscionable that an amendment in the stimulus bill was removed that would have reauthorized the E-Verify system to ensure workers are legal. This will lure more illegals to America.

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