Andrea Joy Campbell: “The amendment that I propose at this point should not be necessary. It deals with something that is so obviously…”

“The amendment that I propose at this point should not be necessary. It deals with something that is so obviously commonsensical that it is surprising that we need to address it but we do. Here is the example. There are many others, but this is the illustration I would like to use. Illegal aliens come to the United States, violating our immigration laws, are hired by an employer. After several months, some of those illegal alien employees who are here in violation of our law engage in union activity. The employer fires them because they were engaging in union activity. That employer violates the National Labor Relations Act. A few months pass, and the National Labor Relations Board holds that it was indeed a violation of the National Labor Relations Act to fire those employees whether they were legal or illegally in the United States because they were engaged in union activity. So far, the story is common and not particularly surprising. But now it turns so. The National Labor Relations Board... cannot order illegal aliens to be reinstated because they are not legally here.”