Is E-Verify being held hostage for an illegal alien amnesty?

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Is E-Verify Just Part of a Bigger Amnesty Push?

By Julie Kirchner, Executive Director of FAIR

It is truly incomprehensible to me that Congress deliberately stripped the E-Verify language from the Stimulus Bill. Those amendments, authored by Congressmen Calvert and Kingston, would have reauthorized this valuable program and required all recipients of taxpayer-funded stimulus money to use this program. While this makes infinite sense to the American people, apparently common logic does not apply inside the beltway. Clearly a different agenda is being pushed on Capitol Hill, and this debate over E-Verify has helped crystallize what it is.

A short while ago, Senator Dodd (D-CT) walked onto the Senate floor and addressed some members’ disappointment that certain items were not in the final bill. He specifically referred to Senator Sessions’ frustration about the fact that the E-Verify program was stripped. Sen. Dodd voiced his support for the program and happily announced that when the Senate takes up the Continuing Resolution in two weeks, the new bill will include an extension of E-Verify until September 30th (the end of the fiscal year).

This is infuriating on so many levels. In particular, it’s important for readers to understand that Democratic Leadership has been playing this game since last fall. They all say how much they support using E-Verify to verify the work authorization of new employees, but when it comes time to truly give this program the long-term commitment that it deserves, they only reauthorize it in short increments.

That begs the question, if Congressional Leaders support E-Verify, why don’t they reauthorize it long-term, or even permanently? Clearly the answer is that they intend to hold E-Verify hostage for more foreign worker visas, or worse yet, an amnesty bill. All of this coincides perfectly with a report Doris Meissner, former Commissioner of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and now a Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, released last week singing the praises of E-Verify and saying required use of the program should be the centerpiece of a bill to tackle illegal immigration. There should be no mistaking that Meissner (who worked for the Clinton Administration and is advising the Obama administration on immigration policy) means an amnesty bill.

This back-and-forth game has been going on for long enough. If everyone says they support E-Verify and agrees that it is key preserving jobs for legal workers, it should be authorized permanently, not held hostage to amnesty. Next week, many Senators and Representatives will be returning to their home districts. Please, take the time to call, e-mail, or visit your Senators and Representatives District offices and urge them to support a long-term reauthorization of the E-Verify program with no strings attached!

http://www.steinreport.com/

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Do you think Congress was smart enough to put measures in the stimulus to ensure only American citizens and legal residents can be employed using stimulus dollars? probably not.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

E-verify was originally passed by Republicans as a limited program (test study), and it still awaiting hearings to fully fund and implement the program. Democrat support is luke warm at best. Employers are upset that the DHS rquires I-9's to maintained on file for every employee, but will not verify information used to fill out the I-9, unless the employer subscribes to E-verify. Further, anti-discrimination legislation prevents the employer from deciding which documents are acceptable, and is solely dependent on the employee to determine which documents to provide the employer, and the employer must accept the proffer. Until the DHS is required to fully implement E-verify for every employer, every employer is subject to both sactions by the DHS, and law suits for discrimination.

Edited February 14, 2009 by Mister_Bill

[jundp 191]

How much of an #### do you look when you continually refer to a large segment of the population as "Dims"? Seriously, can you grow up?

[Ban Hammer 14,182]

just more screwing of the american taxpayer.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

How much of an #### do you look when you continually refer to a large segment of the population as "Dims"? Seriously, can you grow up?

[Ban Hammer 14,182]

How much of an #### do you look when you continually refer to a large segment of the population as "Dims"? Seriously, can you grow up?

don't you have a tree to hug?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Bend over and spread your cheeks.

[jundp 191]

How much of an #### do you look when you continually refer to a large segment of the population as "Dims"? Seriously, can you grow up?

don't you have a tree to hug?

Already hugged it.

I just get tired of the same people making the same infantile comments over and over. I don't go around saying Republiturds (although it does have a nice ring to it now that I think about it) because, I don't know, I don't have a pressing need to sound like an idiot...

[rebeccajo 14]

Do you all realize that the new I-9 could make it virtually impossible for LEGAL immigrants to work in some states?

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

How much of an #### do you look when you continually refer to a large segment of the population as "Dims"? Seriously, can you grow up?

don't you have a tree to hug?

Already hugged it.

I just get tired of the same people making the same infantile comments over and over. I don't go around saying Republiturds (although it does have a nice ring to it now that I think about it) because, I don't know, I don't have a pressing need to sound like an idiot...

...word

Edited February 14, 2009 by TävôLuDô

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

How much of an #### do you look when you continually refer to a large segment of the population as "Dims"? Seriously, can you grow up?

don't you have a tree to hug?

Already hugged it.

I just get tired of the same people making the same infantile comments over and over. I don't go around saying Republiturds (although it does have a nice ring to it now that I think about it) because, I don't know, I don't have a pressing need to sound like an idiot...

Re-#######-a-can'ts?

Retardicans?

Retards?

I am just being helpfull!

[EstebanTrabajos 7]

How much of an #### do you look when you continually refer to a large segment of the population as "Dims"? Seriously, can you grow up?

don't you have a tree to hug?

Already hugged it.

I just get tired of the same people making the same infantile comments over and over. I don't go around saying Republiturds (although it does have a nice ring to it now that I think about it) because, I don't know, I don't have a pressing need to sound like an idiot...

Re-#######-a-can'ts?

Retardicans?

Retards?

I am just being helpfull!

Republicrooks

Republish!ts

Republic**nts

Edited February 14, 2009 by TävôLuDô

[jundp 191]

Thank you boys

So back to the OP, and following with what Becca said, I have just as many problems with people getting irritated that my husband has 'taken a good job away from an American' because he's an LPR and not a USC.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Thank you boys

So back to the OP, and following with what Becca said, I have just as many problems with people getting irritated that my husband has 'taken a good job away from an American' because he's an LPR and not a USC.

Your husband is legal and the people that make those statements are ignorant.