Why does the US government want workers to be here without legal documentation?

And the employers always want the highest possible profit. Undocumented workers raise profits:

• Undocumented workers have no legal protection against
being paid under minimum wage or below the prevailing wage rate.
• Undocumented workers have no legal protection against being
overworked or against unsafe working conditions (for example,
pesticide exposure).
• Undocumented workers have no legal protection against not being
paid at all for work done.
• Undocumented workers have no legal protection against greedy
landlords or substandard housing.
• US employers can make documented workers compete
against undocumented workers for jobs and thereby lower everyone's wage.

We demand that US government:

• Grant amnesty and working documents to all undocumented
workers and their family members.
• Streamline procedures for acquiring US citizenship for all
those who want it. End the nightmare of the INS bureaucracy, etc.
• Eliminate all fees since fees discriminate against those who
need work the most.
• Help other countries develop their economic infrastructure so that
all people have the choice to work in the country of their birth.
The US government is the richest and most powerful government
in the world. It should use its wealth and power to eliminate
poverty at home and abroad, not wage war without end.

Employers always try to divide workers. They fear the power of a united workforce. In the past, the employers divided workers into freemen and slaves. Now they divide us between "illegal" and "legal"workers, or between full-time and part-time workers, etc. In this way employers succeed in making unions weak, and they succeed in keeping the expectations of all workers low. How to Proceed:
We should remain in the streets and build ever more massive demonstrations.

We should organize action committees in every workplace, neighborhood, and school to build for May 1st and beyond.

The Democrats and Republicans will try to divert this movement out of the streets and into the voting booths for their own personal gain. They will entice us with vague promises, but they will only throw us crumbs so as not to offend the employers who finance them. As long as we are divided, we are weak. All US workers must support equal rights for all working people in this country. We can all look forward to a better world if we stand together under the banner "An Injury to One is an Injury to All!"

UNITE IN THE STRUGGLE FOR GENERAL AMNESTY

RALLY, MAY 1, 2006 5PM

Federal Building
450 Golden Gate Ave.
San Francisco

For More Information Contact the Workers International League (WIL) at:
sfbay [at] newyouth.com
wil [at] socialistappeal.org
P.O. Box 4244, St. Paul, MN 55104


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