Stealing an idea from Erick Erickson's Bob Bennett must go campaign at Redstate.com, I'm starting the Lindsey Graham (R-SC) must go campaign as well - even though Graham isn't up for election this November. 

In light of John McCain running for re-election, McCain has sent his proxy sell out Lindsey Graham to do his dirty work because it's that time of the year for McCain to act conservative - you know, election time.  You almost have to believe that Graham went willingly to do McCain's bidding which will be detailed in a later post. 

While the health care debate was going on, Graham and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) were busying themselves creating Dream Act III or whatever glorious name they are deciding to give their bill.  Call it what you want guys, but you can't polish a t*rd.

There are 4 major points to their legislation:  everyone legal and illegal must obtain biometric ID cards to stop illegals from working here, securing the border/tougher enforcement of illegal immigration laws, fixing the temporary worker program, and a path to legalization.  Let's examine the problems with what we know about this bill so far...

Biometric ID cards - I highly doubt that this idea will fly.  There are enough crazies running around screaming about the anti-Christ and the mark of the beast already, don't give them fuel for the fire.  Besides, eVerify is already exists but the liberals/progressives in Congress refuse to allow eVerify to be used.  There was an attempt to add eVerify to the health care reform bill after Joe Wilson's famous "you lie" moment, but the Democrats flat out refused. 

Securing the border/tougher enforcement of illegal immigration laws - We've heard all this securing the border stuff before during the 1986 amnesty.  Ask the family of Robert Krentz how secure the border is.  If you hadn't heard, Krentz was killed by an illegal immigrant on his ranch which makes reassurances from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano that the border is more secure than ever a joke.  Getting tough on enforcement of illegal immigration laws is a pipe dream as well as long as you have cities like San Francisco that are "sanctuary cities" and Eric Holder's US Justice Dept investigating Sheriff Arpaio for actually enforcing immigration laws.  Meanwhile, border states are questioning where the federal government is while they beef up their security along the border.  Exactly how will Schumer and Graham take care of those problems? 

Fixing the temporary worker program - Here's the real problem with the H-2B program (temporary worker program), it's a bit long, but read the whole thing and you will see the scam that is the "temporary worker program":

One of the many bureaucratic requirements of the H-2B program is that would-be H-2B employers need to demonstrate that they have made efforts to fill the jobs locally. The specific advertising requirement demands that prospective H-2B employers place two help wanted ads in the highest circulation daily newspaper in their area. The ads themselves are a prime example of what a charade the entire H-2B process is. First, the ads are nearly always run at the “wrong” time of year. Employers may not file for H-2B workers more than 120 days before the job actually starts, and because of the amount of bureaucracy involved and the numerical shortage of visas, companies need to start the H-2B process as early as they can. So jobs need to be advertised usually about four months before they are actually available. A ski resort that wants workers in November might be running ads in July and a crab processor that wants workers for the spring would be advertising in November.Obviously, very few people looking for seasonal, hourly wage jobs have the luxury of waiting four months or more to begin work.

Compliance ads themselves are easily distinguishable from normal recruitment ads — many of them are written by immigration attorneys or consultants to ensure legal compliance. Most look like legal notices, in that there is no boldface text, no italics, no thick borders around the ads to make them stand out, and they are filled with needlessly long job descriptions that make the jobs sound as unappealing as possible.The ads may as well say, “please do not apply for this job.”

Typically compliance ads require respondents to travel to a state workforce agency to “register there for a referral” rather than directly to an employer. The ads do not list a website where applicants could find out more information about the application process and basic information like the hours that the career center is open. While it’s easy to understand why DOL doesn’t trust employers to screen applicants themselves, what kind of seasonal job applicant wants to have to travel to a job center, in the hopes of registering for a referral for a job that begins in several months?

Compliance ads all tend to be clustered together at the same time of year. For example, in late October, if you get out your magnifying glass and look hard enough in the help wanted section of your local newspaper, you will probably see a maze of compliance ads for landscaping jobs. A good example of this is the Sunday, October 26,2008, help wanted section of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, which contains compliance ads from 27 different landscaping companies.Remarkably, all 27 ads are almost exactly the same, even though they are from distinct companies, indeed competitors, ostensibly trying to recruit from the same pool of labor. All of the ads advertise“temporary” work from February 15 to December 15 at $8.65 per hour. Not a single one of the 27 ads makes any attempt to differentiate itself by offering different wages or benefits or working conditions. If you wanted workers to respond to your specific ad, knowing that many of your competitors will also be advertising, wouldn’t you want to try to mention something about your company? There is no information in any of the ads that would entice workers — none of the companies say anything about themselves or why anyone should want to work for them.

Additionally, compliance ads often end up in publications whose readership is a poor match for the kinds of jobs on offer. For example,J.M. Clayton Seafood in Cambridge, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, is required to advertise the job vacancies they have each year in a newspaper called the Easton Star Democrat, the largest daily newspaper in the immediate area with a very modest circulation of16,752. There is nothing wrong with advertising in small newspapers,but the era of searching for jobs in newspapers is all but over and the DOL does not require jobs to be advertised online. Trying to reach young workers, legal immigrants, minorities, and other potential seasonal workers through the help wanted section of a local newspaper simply makes no sense.

Recruitment advertising sales reps were very candid in describing the farce that is H-2B compliance advertising. I asked one recruitment advertising director at a major daily newspaper in the Northeast if H-2Bemployers cared whether they received a response to their ads. “They don’t want a response at all — and many of them are quite blunt about telling us that,” she said, before going on to describe how some employers would demand that the job openings be removed from the newspaper’s website. “We run their ad in the paper, and then it goes on our website for free, but there is no requirement for them to advertise on the Internet, so they ask us to take it off our site.” Other sales reps described H-2B compliance advertisers wanting to run their ads during the week rather than on Sundays, when more people read the help wanted section.

I asked Jack Brooks, president of J.M Clayton Seafood, about his recruitment advertising expenditures. After a lengthy preamble about how difficult it is to find workers, he acknowledged that the last time his company placed a help-wanted ad was simply to meet the compliance requirement in November 2008 in the Easton Star Democrat, for jobs that were to begin Spring 2009. So despite Brooks’ moaning to members of the media about how hard it is to find workers, the bottom line is that he devoted no budget whatsoever to advertising vacancies for the six months prior to when the work was to begin.

Advertising H-2B job vacancies Is essentially a formality. The reality of the complex H-2B process is that most employers need a lawyer or consultant to assist them, and once they’ve committed to trying to in-source H-2Bs, they’ve already gone past the point of trying to recruit local workers to fill the jobs. Employers obviously want to gain DOL labor certification that there aren’t local workers to fill the H-2B jobs, so they actually have a vested interest in ensuring that there is no response to the ads that they place. Once a business has decided to utilize H-2B labor to fill vacancies, and has taken steps to make that happen, any local job applicants that express an interest in the vacancies are essentially just getting in the way.

Suspicious Petitions: Carrollton, Ky. A former colleague who worked at a very busy H-2B processing consulate south of the border recently told me about his post’s efforts to investigate suspicious H-2Bpetitions they received from a number of companies located in Carrollton, Ky. (population 800), about an hour outside of Cincinnati,Ohio. Carrollton sits within Carroll County, which has a staggering 13percent unemployment rate.

A company called Refractory Services had petitioned for 80 “janitors”to work from October 1, 2008, to July 31, 2009 at the Kentucky steel mill of North American Stainless (“NAS”). NAS is part of the Acerinox Group, the third-largest steel conglomerate in the world. According to the consulate, Refractory Services claimed that the janitors were needed to clean the NAS factory “during the slow season when the factory was not producing steel.” The consulate delved into the case and discovered that the owner of Refractory Services had also petitioned under the name Harris Contractors for an additional 45 “laborers” to work from February 1 through November 30, 2008. (I subsequently discovered that the same person ran a third temporary labor service in Carrollton, a company called Carrollton Mill Services, which petitioned for 80 “production helpers” during the period January 1 through October30, 2008.)

All of these petitions had been certified by the Department of Labor,which requires that the jobs have been advertised in local newspapers.Nevertheless, the officer’s suspicions were aroused by the filing of multiple petitions in an area of high unemployment and by the seeming discrepancy between the 10-month duration of the temporary employment period and the claim that these workers were mainly needed during the mill’s non-producing period. He contacted the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce to learn more about the purported seasonality of NAS’s business and the purported unavailability of U.S. workers in a region with high unemployment.

Path to citizenship - Here's where I find a problem - they jumped to the front of the line and getting rewarded for it.  Remember grade school?  No cut-zies!  I ran into a gentleman that came here from St. Lucia about a week ago, and surprise, politics was discussed.  He went off on a tirade when he talked about amnesty.  He said when he came here, he took the tests, he waited 10 years, and now he was a citizen.  He became a citizen through the proper channels and he was asking why did he have to jump through all the hoops when illegals don't for the same rights that you, I, and he enjoy.  What about all the other legal immigrants taking citizenship courses right now, or those that are waiting to immigrate to the United States but can't?  Is that fair just because our politicians want another voting demographic to call their own?  No it's not.

This is the course Lindsey Graham would have us go with a little help from his friends on the other side of the aisle who are more than willing to use a Republican to get what they want.  For this and being McCain's gopher boy in the Senate, Lindsey Graham must go, and he can take John McCain with him.