Congressional Jobs Caucus vs HISPANDERING BARACK OBAMA & His LA RAZA AGENDA

Congressional Jobs Caucus Criticizes Administration and Stands up for Unemployed Americans

By cchmielenski

Created 06/16/2010 - 12:47pm

The Members of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder responding to a brief filed by the Justice Department urging the Supreme Court to review Arizona's E-Verify law. The law suspends the business license of any business that hires illegal aliens, but the Obama Administration believes the law oversteps federal authority.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - 12:47
The Members of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder responding to a brief filed by the Justice Department urging the Supreme Court to review Arizona's E-Verify law. The law suspends the business license of any business that hires illegal aliens, but the Obama Administration believes the law oversteps federal authority.

In 2007, the Arizona state legislature passed a bill that was signed into law by then-governor and current DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano that requires all employers to use E-Verify to check the working eligibility of new hires. Businesses found to be hiring illegal workers would be subject to a suspension of their business license, and the Chamber of Commerce challenged the law in court. In 2009, the 9th Circuit Court upheld the law.

Recently, however, Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal wrote a brief asking the Supreme Court to review the decision by the lower court.

Members of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus criticized AG Holder and the Justice Department for challenging the law despite high levels of unemployment.

As members of the caucus, we were disturbed to learn that the Acting Solicitor General had filed a brief... In the brief, the Administration argues that Arizona's law revoking the business licenses of businesses that knowingly employ illegal immigrants is unconstitutional. We find it outrageous that you would seek to undermine Arizona's efforts to protect legal workers and ask that you withdraw the ill-considered brief...

Your action is especially troubling given the Obama Administration's weak record on enforcing federal immigration laws against employers that employ illegal immigrants. Compared to fiscal year 2008, the number of administrative arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") in employer-sanctions cases has fallen by 80%, the number of criminal arrests has fallen by 75%. When ICE does engage in worksite enforcement actions, it allows the illegal workers uncovered simply to walk down the street to the next employer to seek employment.

The Supreme Court is expected to make a decision on the brief before the end of their session, which ends this month.