Senior Media Reporter
Romney
in Stratham, New Hampshire (Evan Vucci/AP)
Mitt
Romney appeared on CBS' "Face The Nation" on Sunday, telling Bob Schieffer that
President Obama's decision to halt the deportation of as many
as 800,000 young illegal immigrants was politically-driven, but refused to
say he would repeal the order if elected president.
"First of all, we have
to secure the border," Romney said, reiterating remarks
he made on the campaign trail on Friday. "We need to have an
employment verification system, to make sure that those that are working here
in this country are here legally. And then, with regards to these kids who were brought in
by their parents through no fault of their own, there needs to be a long-term
solution so they know what their status is. This is something Congress has been
working on--and I thought we were about to see some proposals brought forward
by Senator Marco Rubio and by Democrat senators--but the president jumped in
and said I'm going to take this action, he called it a stop-gap measure. I
don't know why he feels stop-gap measures are the right way to go."
When
pressed, the presumptive presidential nominee side-stepped the issue of a
repeal:
Schieffer: Would you repeal this?
Romney:
Well, it would be overtaken by events if you will, by virtue of my putting in
place a long-term solution, with legislation which creates law that relates to
these individuals such that they know what their setting is going to be, not
just for the term of a President but on a permanent basis.
Schieffer: I won't keep on about this but just to make sure I
understand, would you leave this in place while you worked out a long term
solution or would you just repeal it?
Romney:
We'll look at that setting as we reach that, but my anticipation is I'd come
into office and say we need to get this done, on a long-term basis, not this
kind of stop-gap measure. What the President did, he should have worked on this
years ago, if he felt seriously about this he should have taken action when he
had a Democrat House and Senate, but he didn't. He saves these sort of things
until four and a half months before the general election.
Schieffer: Well why do you think he did that?
Romney: I think the timing is pretty clear, if he really wanted to
make a solution that dealt with these kids or with illegal immigration in
America, than this is something he would have taken up in his first 3 and a
half years, not in his last few months.
Schieffer: So he did it for politics.
Romney: Well, that's certainly a big part of the equation.
On
CNN's "State of the Union," Rick Santorum criticized his former
Republican rival for not coming down harder on Obama and the immigration issue.
"He's
trying to walk the line," Santorum said. "He's trying to walk a line
as not to sound like he's hostile to Latinos--swing voters--and in very
important states. But at the same time, I think you need to hammer the
president on this now habitual abuse of power."
Romney
reasserted the stance he made during the Republican primary that he would
reject a deal that would increase taxes by 1 dollar for every 10 dollars in
spending cuts. "Government is big and getting larger and there are those
who think, 'Well, the answer is just to take a little more from the American
people," Romney said.
He
also said the U.S. government should focus on stabilizing the American economy
without getting too deeply involved in Europe's economic woes.
"We're
not going to send checks to Europe," Romeny said. "We're not going to
bail out the European banks. We're going to be poised here to support our
economy."
Later
in the interview, the former Massachusetts governor claimed he would take a
hard-line on Iran: "I can assure you, if I'm President, the Iranians will
have no question but that I would be willing to take military action if
necessary to prevent them from becoming a nuclear threat to the world."
And
Romney-who on Saturday Obama should have been a governor before being elected
president--said he would be able to unite the country because he does not play
politics.
"I'm
really not a guy that's going for the next step in my political career,"
he said. "Bob, I don't have a political career. I served as governor for
four years. I spent my life in the private sector. The private sector is where
I've made my mark. I am in this race because I want to get America back on the
right track. I don't care about re-elections, I don't care about the
partisanship that goes on, I want to get America right."
More
coverage from Yahoo! News
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ROMNEY PROMISES TO MAKE E-VERIFY A NATIONWIDE LAW! OBAMA
PROMISES HIS LA RAZA PART BASE of ILLEGALS TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO
USE E-VERIFY!
POSTED! NO LEGAL NEED APPLY! CALL IT OBAMANOMICS! KEEPING
WAGES DEPRESSED WITH HORDES OF ILLEGALS KEEPS OBAMA’S WALL ST DONORS HAPPY AND
GENEROUS.
AMERICA – POSTED! NO LEGAL NEED
APPLY! BUT WE STILL GET THE BILLS FOR THE LA RAZA WELFARE AND CRIME STATE IN
OUR BORDERS!
If job creation is the goal, make E-Verify mandatory - TheHill.com
THE LA RAZA FACTION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE HAS JUST PASSED
A LAW TO INCREASE THESE NUMBERS. THE LA RAZA DEM GOV JERRY BROWN QUICKLY SIGNED
IT MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY!
L.A. COUNTY pays out $600 million per year in welfare to
illegals!!! (source: JUDICIAL WATCH).
THE TAX-FREE MEX UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN THIS COUNTY IS
CALCULATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF $2 BILLION PER YEAR!
of the top 200 MOST WANTED CRIMINALS in the LA RAZA OCCUPIED
CITY of LOS ANGELES, 176 ARE MEXICANS. MOST OF THE REST ARE RUSSIANS!
VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY?
FRONTING FOR EMPLOYERS OF
ILLEGALS, THE U.S. CHAMBER of COMMERCE HAS LONG DEMANDED ENDLESS AMNESTIES,
OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, AND NO LEGAL NEED APPLY! IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING
WAGES DEPRESSED. THIS IS ALSO OBAMA’S LA RAZA AGENDA! OBAMA HAS SUED THE STATE
OF ARIZONA TO STOP E-VERIFY!
“Last May, the state defeated
the Chamber of Commerce's suit against the law in the Supreme Court.”
Arizona shows pitfalls in Romney’s proposed national E-Verify program
Romney greets supporters in Chandler, Ariz. (Gerald Herbert/AP)
At
Wednesday night's GOP debate, Mitt Romney called Arizona a "model"
for immigration enforcement, singling out the state's 2007 law mandating that
all employers use the national E-Verify database when hiring workers. He promised to institute a national E-Verify
law if elected. "You do that, and just as Arizona is finding out, you
can stop illegal immigration," he said. Last May, the state defeated the Chamber of Commerce's suit against the
law in the Supreme Court.
Kansas
Secretary of State Kris Kobach, Romney's adviser on immigration issues, helped
write Arizona's E-Verify law as well as Arizona's 2010 SB1070 law (Support Our
Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act). At the recent Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington,
Kobach touted what's happened in Arizona as proof that
"self-deportation"—Romney's chosen immigration strategy—is working.
"People started self-deporting by the tens of thousands," after
E-Verify passed, he said, according to the Hill.
Romney
and Kobach are right that, on at least one level, the law has had a significant
impact in Arizona. A study
published last year by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that
about 92,000, or 17 percent, of the Hispanic non-citizen population of Arizona
left the state in the year after the state passed E-Verify legislation; most of
those who moved were probably illegal immigrants. (THEY
PROBABLY MOVED TO MEXIFORNIA!) PPI researchers told
Yahoo News that the law—not the recession, or highly-publicized raids targeting
illegal immigrants—was the most likely cause of the exodus.
Yet
while PPI's research helps predict what might happen if an E-Verify system were
implemented nationally, as Romney hopes, it exposes some of the less-desirable
side-effects of the law as well. In
Arizona, the non-citizen Hispanic workers who did stay behind increasingly
shifted into a shadow economy, said Magnus Lofstrom, a co-author of the
study. The self-employment rate among non-citizen Hispanics in Arizona nearly
doubled post-E-Verify, and a higher proportion of people who said they were
self-employed lived in poverty and lacked health insurance.
Lofstrom
told Yahoo News that the informal economy would grow significantly nationwide
if a national E-Verify system were established. While illegal immigrants in Arizona were able to move to other states
to find work, their choices would be significantly limited if E-Verify were
implemented nationally; the only real (and unlikely) option would be to for
undocumented workers to move to another country. In other words, we'd be
much more likely to see an increase in informal employment rather than a
massive movement among illegal immigrants to "self-deport."
(RIDDING OURSELVES OF THE LA RAZA OCCUPIERS WILL NOT BE EASY.
THEY’RE VOTING MORE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST INTO OFFICE EVERY ELECTION! IT WILL
BRING A DECLINE IN THE STAGGERING COST OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE ($600
MILLION PER YEAR IN LA RAZA INFESTED LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE), AND ALSO THE
STAGGERING MEXICAN CRIME RATES. ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN. KAMALA HARRIS, HALF
OF ALL MURDERS IN CA ARE BY MEXICAN GANGS! THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
CHARACTERIZES CA AS THE “MEXICAN GANG CAPITAL of AMERICA”.)
What
would that mean? An increase in informal employment among the nation's
estimated 11 million illegal immigrants would result in lower tax
revenues--since non-self employed illegal immigrants are more likely to have
taxes withheld from their paychecks--higher poverty levels among illegal
immigrants, and a higher potential for employer abuse, said Lofstrom. (Right
now, America has a relatively small shadow
economy
compared to other developed countries, like Italy.)
Another
snag with instituting a national E-Verify program is that the current system cannot
detect identity fraud. A 2009 government-commissioned study found that E-Verify only
flags illegal immigrants half the time, because it can't detect when a worker
is using documents that belong to someone else. (Employers enter in Social
Security or alien registration numbers, birthdates and names of employees into
the database, which figures out whether they match the federal immigration and
Social Security databases.) To combat
this fraud, Romney has said he supports biometric ID cards for immigrants that
would contain a fingerprint or other identifying device that clears them for
work. Romney hasn't explicitly said that every person in America should
have this card--an idea that many libertarians
object to.
But without being adopted universally, undocumented people could still use
false documents. (The Romney team had not responded to requests for comment
from Yahoo News by the time this article was published.) Mandatory national ID
cards have played a starring role in failed bipartisan immigration reform
proposals in Congress over the past few years.
In Arizona, there is no
state-wide system to make sure businesses are using E-Verify. Rather,
individual citizens are asked to expose employers that they suspect of hiring
illegal immigrants to their local district attorneys. Yet district attorneys were
not granted the power to subpoena businesses that are suspected of hiring
illegal immigrants, and some DAs have complained that the law is an unfunded
mandate for their offices, according to Judy Gans, immigration policy director
at Arizona University's Udall Center. Only
three businesses were prosecuted under the law in the first three years after
it passed.
But
business owners still worry that E-Verify's high error rate could leave them
open to prosecution. Republicans in Arizona's state Senate are now moving to
change the law at their request. Republican state senator Jerry Lewis, who
defeated anti-illegal immigration hardliner Russell Pearce last year in a
historic recall election, is co-sponsoring a bill with seven other Republican
senators to provide "safe harbor" to businesses that use E-Verify but
still accidentally hire unauthorized workers.
Lewis,
who is backing Romney, told Yahoo News that he is not a fan of Kobach's draft
immigration laws.
"Does
Kobach's presence in Romney's campaign create a difficulty for him? I believe
it does," Lewis said. "I think people want a real solution and I
don't think the legislation that has been drafted by Kobach is a real
solution." Lewis said the immigration laws "polarize people."
Lewis
added that he thinks Romney will eventually agree with him that making all
illegal immigrants leave the country is not a solution to the country's
immigration problems.
"I
think he'll realize that there is a place for a real solution to the issue, and
it's not just let's get everybody that's undocumented out of the country,"
Lewis said.
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AN AMERICAN SEES & SPEAKS!
Sonia Sotomayor opposes E-Verify
requirement
True to form, she said it was
illegal to make employers e-verify citizen status of new hires.
Interesting, she says a state cannot force employers to check if employees they are hiring are illegal. Thankfully the court ruled 5-3 supporting law. But now we know for sure just how extreme far left Obama's choice was. We cannot afford Obama to get another term, or you can bet this country will be overrun by illegals. I don't want this country to be poor and corrupt like Mexico, which it will if illegals overrun the country.
Interesting, she says a state cannot force employers to check if employees they are hiring are illegal. Thankfully the court ruled 5-3 supporting law. But now we know for sure just how extreme far left Obama's choice was. We cannot afford Obama to get another term, or you can bet this country will be overrun by illegals. I don't want this country to be poor and corrupt like Mexico, which it will if illegals overrun the country.
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OBAMA’S AMERICA: Open & Undefended Borders!
“What we're seeing is our
Congress and national leadership dismantling our laws by not enforcing them.
Lawlessness becomes the norm, just like Third World corruption. Illegal aliens
now have more rights and privileges than Americans. If you are an illegal
alien, you can drive a car without a driver's license or insurance. You may
obtain medical care without paying. You may work without paying taxes. Your
children enjoy free education at the expense of taxpaying Americans.”
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/feds-allow-illegal-aliens-to-cross.html
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Obama Administration Challenges Arizona
E-Verify Law
The
Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a 2007 Arizona law that punishes employers who
hire illegal aliens, a law enacted by then-Governor Janet Napolitano. (Solicitor General's Amicus
Curiae Brief).
Called the “Legal Arizona Workers Act,” the law requires all employers in
Arizona to use E-Verify and provides that the business licenses of those who
hire illegal workers shall be repealed. From the date of enactment, the
Chamber of Commerce and other special interest groups have been trying to undo
it, attacking it through a failed ballot initiative and also through a lawsuit.
Now the Chamber is asking the United States Supreme Court to hear the case (Chamber
of Commerce v. Candelaria), and the Obama Administration is weighing in
against the law.
To
date, Arizona’s E-Verify law has been upheld by all lower courts, including the
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Ninth Circuit, in particular, viewed it as
an exercise of a state’s traditional power to regulate businesses. (San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2010).
Obama’s Justice Department, however, disagrees. Acting Solicitor General Neal
Katyal said in his filing with the Supreme Court that the lower courts were
wrong to uphold the statute because federal immigration law expressly preempts
any state law imposing sanctions on employers hiring illegal immigrants.
Mr. Katyal argues that this is not a licensing law, but “a statute that
prohibits the hiring of unauthorized aliens and uses suspension and revocation
of all state-issued licenses as its ultimate sanction.” (Solicitor General's Amicus
Curiae Brief,
p. 10). This is the administration’s first court challenge to a state’s
authority to act against illegal immigration, and could be a preview of the
battle brewing over Arizona’s recent illegal immigration crackdown through SB
1070.
Napolitano
has made no comment on the Department of Justice’s decision to challenge the
2007 law, but federal officials said that she has taken an active part in the
debate over whether to do so. (Politico, May 28, 2010).
As Governor of Arizona, Napolitano said she believed the state law was valid
and became a defendant in the many lawsuits against it. (Id.).
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Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant
workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures
released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and
convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50
percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009. Obama soft on illegals enforcement
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
Obama Quietly Erasing Borders
(Article)
Article
Link: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240045
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OBAMA PUT A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST IN AS SEC. OF LABOR TO ASSURE ILLEGALS GET OUR JOBS FIRST!
“Labor
Secretary Hilda Solis, a former California congresswoman with close ties to the
influential La Raza movement, announced the “We Can Help” project with
great fanfare a few days ago.”*
If job creation is the goal, make E-Verify mandatory
By Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) - 06/14/11 04:30 PM ET
In a speech delivered during a campaign fundraising trip to Texas last month, President Obama called for Congress to approve comprehensive immigration reform, also known as "amnesty." Meanwhile, the president and his administration claim that putting unemployed Americans back to work is their No. 1 priority.
But these two goals cannot be met simultaneously. The president cannot say on one hand that he wants to create jobs and on the other that he wants to legalize millions of illegal immigrants.
Amnesty prevents Americans from getting jobs, since millions of illegal immigrants will become eligible to work legally in the United States. The president's proposal to legalize millions of illegal immigrants means more competition for American workers who are in need of jobs.
Look at history to see how amnesty has played out in the past. In 1986, Congress legalized about 3 million illegal immigrants. It didn't fix the problem; it only made it worse. Today, there are more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S., and 7 million people work here illegally. At the same time, 26 million Americans are unemployed or have given up looking for work.
It is inexcusable that Americans and legal workers have to compete with illegal immigrants for scarce jobs. Rather than reward lawbreakers, we should put American workers first.
Fortunately, there is a free, quick and easy tool available to preserve jobs for legal workers: E-Verify. But the program is currently voluntary. Congress has the opportunity to expand E-Verify so more job opportunities are made available to unemployed Americans. There is no other legislation that can be enacted that will create more jobs -- maybe millions more -- for American workers.
Created in the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, E-Verify is a Web-based system that allows employers to electronically verify the work eligibility of newly hired employees.
Under E-Verify, the Social Security numbers of new hires are checked against Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security records to weed out fraudulent numbers and help ensure that new hires are legally authorized to work in the U.S.
Even though E-Verify is not mandatory, more than 250,000 businesses willingly use E-Verify and 1,300 new businesses sign up each week. Individuals eligible to work receive immediate confirmation 99.5 percent of the time.
Unlike amnesty, E-Verify has received overwhelming bipartisan support since its creation as a pilot program in 1996. It was extended in 2002, 2008 and 2010. In 2008, the House passed a standalone five-year extension of E-Verify by a vote of 407-2. And in 2009, the Senate passed a permanent E-Verify extension by voice vote.
Part of the success of E-Verify is that participating employers are happy with the results. Outside evaluations have found that the vast majority of employers using E-Verify believe it to be an effective and reliable tool for checking the legal status of their employees.
And E-Verify recently received an exceptionally high overall customer satisfaction score -- 82 out of 100 on the American Customer Satisfaction Index scale. That is well above the overall federal government satisfaction index of 69.
The American people also support E-Verify. A May 2011 Rasmussen poll found that 82 percent of likely voters think businesses should be required to use the federal government's E-Verify system to determine if a potential employee is in the country legally.
And a 2010 Zogby poll of minorities commissioned by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 88 percent of likely minority voters polled support reducing the illegal immigrant population over time by enforcing existing immigration laws, such as requiring employers to verify the legal status of their workers.
With millions of citizens and legal workers looking for work, it is important that we promote policies that increase job opportunities for Americans and legal immigrants. Amnesty undermines this goal, but making E-Verify mandatory helps achieve it.
As long as opportunities for illegal employment exist, the incentive to enter the United States illegally or to overstay visas will continue.
If job creation is the president's priority, then he should push Congress to pass mandatory E-Verify legislation. We cannot sit and hope that businesses hire only legal workers; hope is not a strategy. E-Verify is our best tool for reducing the jobs magnet and creating more jobs for American workers.
Smith is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.
Source:
http://thehill.com/special-reports/immigration-june-2011/166421-if-job-creation-is-the-goal-make-e-verify-mandatory
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MEXICANS ARE THE MOST RACIST AND VIOLENT CULTURES IN THE HEMISPHERE.
THEY DO NOT HOP OUR
BORDERS, JOBS AND WELFARE LINES BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE AMERICANS, THEY COME AS
OCCUPIERS TO LOOT.
THE BELOW OPINION
POSTED ON MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com IS AN EXAMPLE OF LA RAZA “THE RACE”
SUPREMACY.
BARACK OBAMA and the RISE OF LA RAZA FASCISM IN AMERICA
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here we go again, a bunch of white racists who want to do away with meixicans.why don't you all go back to your country wherever that is anymore.you fore fathers came and raped ,slaughtered and stole the land. now because they can't stand brown people because they are different want to get rid of them. piche gringos, get this, america is not white. never was,never will be.pack up your bags and leave.you are not wanted in american anymore. you have innocent blood in your hands because of your racist fore fathers. you don't belong here.you don't pick on the black folks anymore , so pick on the mexicans.will cardon,another joe arpaio
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“In Mexico, a recent
Zogby poll declared that the vast majority of Mexican citizens hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a country
saturated with racism, yet in denial, having never endured the social
development of a Civil Rights movement like in the US--Blacks are harshly
treated while foreign Whites are often seen as the enemy. [22.3] In fact,
racism as workplace discrimination can be seen across the US anywhere the
illegal alien Latino works--the vast majority of the workforce is usually
strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites, Asians, and others.”
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