BARACK OBAMA HAS SQUANDERED BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS FROM EACH OTHER, AS HE HAS PUSHED OUR BORDERS WIDER OPEN BY THE DAY TO BUILD HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE of ILLEGALS.
Border Patrol to Close Nine Stations
Last week, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced it plans to close nine Border Patrol Stations across the United States. (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, July 7, 2012) The station closures will take place at the following locations: Lubbock, Amarillo, Dallas, San Angelo, Abilene, and San Antonio (TX); Billings (MT); Twin Falls (ID); and Riverside (CA). According to the CBP spokesman, the move to close these stations – many in strategic locations – is being done "[i]n order to accomplish [the agency's] mission more efficiently and to use its personnel more effectively..." (Id.) While CBP states that the closures will save the agency $1.3 million per year, it has yet to explain what the trade off will be in terms of illegal alien apprehensions and drugs seized. According to CBP, the Border Patrol agents in the closed stations will be moved from these near interior stations to the border itself.
Local law enforcement officials immediately criticized the closures. (Id.; See also FOXNews.com, July 11, 2012) In particular, they note that these near-interior Border Patrol stations act as a second line of defense, and that the Border Patrol agents in these strategic locations perform an invaluable service to locals who do not have the same authority to enforce federal laws against human trafficking and illegal immigration. (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, July 7, 2012) "We've got a big corridor that runs through Amarillo," said Potter County Sheriff Brian Thomas. "If we pull over illegal aliens, we can call over [Border Patrol agents] who can detain them. We won't have the resources to check them." (Id.)
The CBP's decision to close these Border Patrol stations was also questioned by the Resident Agent in Charge at the Border Patrol's Amarillo office. In a public letter, Agent Robert Green lamented the closing of the stations, particularly because it would leave state and local law enforcement officers without assistance when encountering illegal aliens. (Id.) "At this time," he wrote, "there is no active plan for ICE assets to assist local authorities in this area when alien smuggling or alien transportation situations are encountered by your personnel."
Members of Congress are also beginning to voice concern over the Obama Administration's latest move regarding immigration enforcement. Lawmakers have started to get involved. Reps. Mac Thornberry, Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), and Michael Conway (R-TX), who represent affected districts, wrote Border Patrol Chief Michael Fischer asking that he "reconsider" or "delay" the proposal. (Rep. Thornberry Press Release and Letter, July 10, 2012; See alsoFOXNews.com, July 11, 2012) "The U.S. Border Patrol made this announcement without first ensuring that local law enforcement agencies will have the necessary resources to deal with the serious illegal immigration problems in our area," Thornberry said.
OBAMA PUT A LA RAZA SUPREMACIST IN AS SEC. OF LABOR TO ASSURE ILLEGALS GET OUR JOBS FIRST!
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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
AMNESTY INCREASES ILLEGALS! BUT
ISN’T THAT THE ENTIRE PLAN?
KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED $300
TO $400 BILLION PER YEAR REQUIRES A STEADY TIDAL WAVE OF ILLEGALS JUMPING OUR
BORDERS FOR OUR JOBS… or at least… OBAMA’S CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT!
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ON THE GROWING POWER OF “LA RAZA” FASCISM FOR MEX SUPREMACY
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WHEN BARACK OBAMA IS NOT
WORKING FOR HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS, HE’S WORKING FOR LA RAZA!
OBAMA IS DETERMINED TO ONCE
AGAIN WIN THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES. HE HAS INFESTED HIS ADMINISTRATION WITH LA RAZA
PARTY SUPREMACIST, SUCH AS SEC. OF (ILLEGAL) LABOR, HILDA SOLIS, AND PROMISED
ILLEGALS AMNESTY, NO E-VERIFY, NO (REAL) I.C.E., DEPT of HOMELAND SECURITY =
PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP, NO BORDERS, CATCH AND RELEASE OF ILLEGALS, ENDLESS
DREAM ACTS PAID FOR BY LEGALS, LAWSUITS ON BEHALF OF LA RAZA AGAINST AMERICANS
IN ARIZONA, AND THE END OF BUILDING THE WALL TO KEEP THE HORDES OUT! IF ALL
THAT DOES NOT BUY THE LA RAZA VOTE, OBAMA PROMISES CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT!
VIVA LA RECONQUISTA! VIVA LA
RAZA SUPREMACY! Obama does every day!
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James Jay Carafano: The administration's
secure-the-border trap
When the public clamors for action to
curb illegal immigration, politicians push the "easy button." They
mobilize the National Guard and send them to the border.
It's a time-honored tradition, though
not always efficacious.
For example, in 1916, Poncho Villa
launched a series of cross-border raids into the U.S. In response, we sent a
few thousand troops under the command of Blackjack Pershing to hunt down the
bandits.
It cost U.S. taxpayers hundreds of
thousands of dollars a day. Pershing never captured Villa. And, on several
occasions, the Army got its butt kicked. On June 21, 1916, the Mexican Army
almost completely wiped out a detachment of the 10th U.S. Cavalry at Carrizal.
Most U.S. troops were withdrawn by
1917. They returned to the border in the 1920s. Ultimately, border violence
subsided, not so much due to the U.S. troop presence, but because the
revolutionary ardor wracking Mexico had finally run its course.
Recently, President Obama ordered the
National Guard back to the border. And Congress rushed to pass another border
bill before sprinting off for summer recess. This frenzy of activity reflects a
desire to be seen as "doing something" more than a calculated, serious
response to our border security problems.
For several years, Republicans have chanted a "secure
the border first" mantra. It allowed them to look tough on the illegal
immigration issue while dodging the issue of "comprehensive" reform. It's a bad strategy. It suggests that, if the Obama
administration overcomes the "border first" problem, it will be clear
sailing for a push for amnesty.
The administration knows an opportunity
when it sees one. Hence we saw Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
trot out the "border has never been more secure" argument in
congressional testimony earlier this year. However, as violence on the Mexican
side of the border continues to escalate, the administration's "secure
border" argument isn't gaining traction -- even among congressional
Democrats.
So now the White House is on a
different tack: Throwing money at the problem. Far too many Republicans as well
as Democrats are comfortable with that approach -- even when it promises to
accomplish little. But, in the end, unfocused spending on the border may give
the administration an excuse to push through a massive amnesty.
At some point, after shoveling huge
sums of money into low-value border security gambits, pro-amnesty politicians
will throw up their hands. "We tried," they'll say, "but we just
can't secure the border without amnesty."
Whether progress is made on the border
or not, the real problem is that any strategy for reducing illegal immigration
that includes amnesty is bound to fail. Granting a general amnesty will just
encourage another wave of illegal border crossing. That is exactly what
happened when the 1986 amnesty bill was passed. And that is exactly what will
happen if Washington does it again.
But waiting until we get the border
right before doing anything else to reform immigration policy makes no sense
either.
Securing the border requires solving
larger problems. It means working with Mexico to bust the cartels, enforcing
our immigration and workplace laws, creating effective temporary-worker
programs, and rejecting amnesty once and for all. And, of course, it requires
better and more cost-effective border security.
Washington can't solve the problem of
illegal immigration without tackling all aspects of the problem. Simply
pounding the table and chanting "border first" is not just
inadequate; it puts us on the short road to a general amnesty.
Examiner Columnist James Jay Carafano
is a senior research fellow for national security at the Heritage
Foundation.
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
There are already 38 million
illegals in the country. La Raza, the Mexican supremacist party for expansion
of the Mexican welfare state, is actively fighting against illegals
participating in the census. They do this through the Mexican media, and
through the Catholic church. The Senate has joined in this fight. BOTH LA RAZA
ENTITIES DO NOW WANT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO KNOW HOW BAD THE MEXICAN INVASION
AND OCCUPATION IS!
Where in this country is it NOT
Mexican occupied?
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Judicial Watch
Mexicans Say Amnesty Will Boost
Illegal Immigration
last
Updated: Wed, 10/14/2009 - 3:02pm
If President Obama
keeps his promise of
giving the nation’s 12 million illegal aliens amnesty it will encourage more
Mexicans to enter the United States, according to residents of the struggling
Latin American country who are undoubtedly rooting for the commander-in-chief’s
plan.
The majority of
illegal immigrants in the U.S. are from Mexico therefore the president’s
reprieve project will greatly affect that nation. Two-thirds of Mexicans say
they know someone living in the United States and around one-third have an
immediate member of their household or close relative living in the U.S.
A majority of those
residing south of the border say legalizing their undocumented countrymen will
inspire more Mexicans to head north, according to a recent survey conducted by
an internationally known polling and market research company. A vast majority of Mexicans with a relative in the United
States said a legalization program would make people they know more likely to
go to America illegally.
The results of the survey
were made public this week by a research organization
dedicated to studying the economic, social, fiscal and demographic impacts of
immigration in the U.S. It reveals that nearly one-third of Mexican residents
(nearly 40 million people) would like to live in the U.S. and if there was an
amnesty a large number would come illegally with the hope of qualifying for a
future exoneration.
An amnesty,
therefore, would stimulate more illegal immigration which is the last thing
this country needs. Furthermore, rewarding those who have violated our nation’s
laws with coveted U.S. residency and possibly citizenship demeans the system,
especially for those who follow the appropriate steps to come lawfully.
It’s bad enough that
U.S. taxpayers annually dish out billions of dollars to educate, medically
treat and incarcerate illegal aliens who are, in many cases, depleting local
governments. Los Angeles County alone spends more than $1 billion a year, including $48 million a month in welfare costs, to provide
services for illegal aliens. The crisis is hardly limited to border states,
which have traditionally been the most impacted. Georgia’s skyrocketing illegal
population costs taxpayers nearly $2 billion a year.
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
FAIRUS.org
JUDICIALWATCH.org
ALIPAC.us
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The
Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According
to DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
By Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The setting was not quite the flight
deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a “Mission Accomplished” banner as the
backdrop, but it was the next best thing. Speaking at the Center for American
Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
declared victory over illegal immigration and announced that the Obama
administration is ready to move forward with a mass amnesty for the millions of
illegal aliens already living in the United States.
Arguing the Obama administration’s case
for amnesty, Napolitano laid out what she described as the “three-legged stool”
for immigration reform. As the administration views it, immigration reform must
include “a commitment to serious and effective enforcement, improved legal
flows for families and workers, and a firm but fair way to deal with those who
are already here.”
Acknowledging that a lack of confidence
in the government’s ability and commitment to effectively enforce the
immigration laws it passes proved to be the Waterloo of previous efforts to
gain amnesty for illegal aliens, Napolitano was quick to reassure the American
public that those concerns could be put to rest.
“For starters, the security of the
Southwest border has been transformed from where it was in 2007,” stated the
secretary. Not only is the border locked up tight, she continued, but the
situation is well in-hand in the interior of the country as well. “We’ve also
shown that the government is serious and strategic in its approach to
enforcement by making changes in how we enforce the law in the interior of the
country and at worksites…Furthermore, we’ve transformed worksite enforcement to
truly address the demand side of illegal immigration.”
If Rep. Joe Wilson had been in attendance
to hear Secretary Napolitano’s CAP speech he might well have had a few choice
comments to offer. But since he wasn’t, we will have to rely on the Department
of Homeland Security’s own data to assess the veracity of Napolitano’s claims.
According to DHS’s own reports, very
little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or otherwise) are secure, and
gaining control is not even a goal of the department. DHS claims to have
“effective control” over just 894 miles of border. That’s 894 out of 8,607
miles they are charged with protecting. As for the other 7,713 miles? DHS’s
stated border security goal for FY 2010 is the same 894 miles.
The administration’s strategic approach
to interior and worksite enforcement is just as chimerical as its strategy at
the border, unless one considers shuffling paper to be a strategy. DHS data,
released November 18, show that administrative arrests of immigration law
violators fell by 68 percent between 2008 and 2009. The department also carried
out 60 percent fewer arrests for criminal violations of immigration laws, 58
percent fewer criminal indictments, and won 63 percent fewer convictions.
While the official unemployment rate
has climbed from 7.6 percent when President Obama took office in January to 10
percent today, the administration’s worksite enforcement strategy has amounted
to a bureaucratic game of musical chairs. The administration has all but ended
worksite enforcement actions and replaced them with paperwork audits. When the
audits determine that illegal aliens are on the payroll, employers are given
the opportunity to fire them with little or no adverse consequence to the
company, while no action is taken to remove the illegal workers from the
country. The illegal workers simply acquire a new set of fraudulent documents
and move on to the next employer seeking workers willing to accept substandard
wages.
In Janet Napolitano’s alternative
reality a mere 10 percent of our borders under “effective control” and sharp
declines in arrests and prosecutions of immigration lawbreakers may be
construed as confidence builders, but it is hard to imagine that the American
public is going to see it that way. If anything, the administration’s record
has left the public less confident that promises of future immigration
enforcement would be worth the government paper they’re printed on.
As Americans scrutinize the
administration’s plans to overhaul immigration policy, they are likely to find
little in the “three-legged stool” being offered that they like or trust. The
first leg – enforcement – the administration has all but sawed off. The second
– increased admissions of extended family members and workers – makes little
sense with some 25 million Americans either unemployed or relegated to
part-time work. And the third – amnesty for millions of illegal aliens – is
anathema to their sense of justice and fair play.
As Americans well know, declaring
“Mission Accomplished” and actually accomplishing a mission are two completely
different things. When it comes to enforcing immigration laws, the only message
the public is receiving from this administration is “Mission Aborted.”
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
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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.”
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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.
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.
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.
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Obama Quietly Erasing Borders
(Article)
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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.”
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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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AMERICA – POSTED! NO LEGAL NEED
APPLY! BUT WE STILL GET THE BILLS FOR THE LA RAZA WELFARE AND CRIME STATE IN
OUR BORDERS!
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