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Long term residency
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Posted on Apr 03 2008
During the 1980s, the CNMI had a long term residency law in effect. Which was promptly changed. Via repeal by the CNMI Legislature.
Now these same longtime CNMI politicos urge those so long wholly disenfranchised by the CNMI’s laws and policies—those being the overwhelming majority of the CNMI private sector workforce, labeled CNMI “nonresident” workers despite years of de facto CNMI presence—to consider a newly proposed CNMI “long-term-resident” laws of some type?
These of course the same CNMI politicos who, in wholesale disregard and utter contempt for CNMI constituents, have over the decades enacted-then-repealed, enacted-then-ignored, and enacted-without-enforcement CNMI laws time and again. As to minimum wage. As to fair labor standards. As to workers’ rights. As to immigration. As to retirement fund obligations. As to fuel surcharges. As to gambling. As to garments. Ad nauseam.
Knowing as we all do that longtime CNMI politicos change their laws significantly more often than their underwear—once a week at minimum it seems in less severe cases—how can these longtime CNMI politicos now expect the disenfranchised but intelligent masses to now rely, with any sense of good faith or common sense or reasonable expectation of fairness, on any CNMI legislation as to “long-term resident status”? Or CNMI legislation as to any other matter affecting these workers’ human rights, dignity, equality, or well-being?
These workers know better. The kindhearted CNMI general public knows better. It seems that the few who don’t know better are…well, these same CNMI politicos.
[B]Bruce L. Jorgensen [/B] [I]Santiago, Chili[/I]
