UNEMPLOYMENT IN MEXICO IS UNDER 6%. UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOME PARTS OF MEXICAN OCCUPIED MEXIFORNIA IS NEARLY 30%.
CA PUTS OUT NEARLY $20 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS, AND LA RAZA IS THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY (OF ILLEGALS) IN AMERICA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/william-gheen-untold-story-of-american.html
WHO HAS AND WILL FIGHT E-VERIFY, AND JOBS FOR AMERICANS?
1. BARACK OBAMA
2. LA RAZA SUPREMACY PARTY
3. LA RAZA DEMS
4. MEXICO
5. U.S CHAMBER of COMMERCE WORKING TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
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ON BEHALF OF HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE, OBAMA HAS NEVER DONE ANYTHING BUT SABOTAGE E-VERIFY.
FOR OBAMA, ILLEGALS ARE “MY UNDOCUMENTED DEMS”.
Bill would require electronic background checks for employment
By Gautham Nagesh - 06/15/11 05:02 PM ET
A bill introduced Tuesday by House Judiciary chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) would require firms to use an electronic system to verify new hires are eligible to work in the United States.
The Legal Workforce Act would require all U.S. employers to use the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify system two years after passage. The system checks the social security numbers of new hires against government databases to ensure they can work in the U.S. legally.
“With unemployment at 9%, jobs are scarce. Despite record unemployment, seven million people work in the U.S. illegally. These jobs should go to legal workers," Smith said in a statement.
“E-Verify is a successful program to help ensure that jobs are reserved for citizens and legal workers. The ‘E’ in E-Verify could just as well stand for ‘easy’ and ‘effective.’"
But civil liberties advocates including the ACLU are staunch opponents of both the legislation and E-Verify, arguing the program is error-prone and the bill encroaches on the privacy of citizens that have done nothing wrong by collecting their biometric information.
“Under E-Verify, American workers would be involuntarily signing up for never-ending digital surveillance that starts with employment and will spread to many parts of their lives,” said ACLU legislative counsel Christopher Calabrese.
“The fact that the bill begins to create a biometric national ID card, with information such as a fingerprint, hand scan or iris scan, demonstrates its complete disregard for privacy.”
DHS officials have worked to reduce the number of mistakes, but the ACLU maintains the error rate is unacceptable because it results in legal workers being blacklisted from the job market.
“The bill would be a nightmare for workers with few remedies for those who are harmed by these errors and no mechanism to easily fix errors,” said Laura Murphy, director of the ACLU's Washington office.
However, at a hearing on legislation Tuesday, Smith said the bill's measures constitute common sense, pointing out that more than a quarter million employers including most federal contractors currently use the system.
"You have to show your Social Security number to visit the doctor, go to the bank, or buy a home," Smith said. "It makes sense that businesses would use the same identification to ensure they have a legal workforce by checking the legal status of their employees."
Smith cited data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service, which manages the E-Verify program, showing that 98.3 percent of employees were confirmed as work authorized within 24 hours.
A separate 2009 Westat report found individuals that are eligible to work are immediately confirmed 99.5 percent of the time. The remaining half a percent would have to prove to USCIS that they are work eligible, a delay the bill's opponents argue could cost those workers job opportunities.
Source:
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/166695-bill-would-require-electronic-checks-of-workers-employment-eligibility
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FROM 2005… DO YOU THINK IT’S BETTER OR WORSE…?
from the August 24, 2005 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0824/p08s02-comv.html
Is Mexico still a nation?
The Monitor's View
A survey released last week by the Pew Hispanic Center found more than four in 10 Mexicans are willing to leave their country to live in the US. One in five would risk a dangerous, illegal border crossing. Most surprising, one in three college graduates wants to flee. Before Washington takes up immigration reform this fall, it needs to take a hard look at Mexico's disillusionment.
Already, one in eight adults born in Mexico now lives in the US. And the Mexican economy is kept afloat partially by an estimated $16 billion sent back by immigrants to relatives.
Such numbers reveal a people so fed up with Mexico's dysfunctional politics and stagnant economy that their nationalism is wilting. While more than half of Mexico's 106 million people are officially poor, the Pew survey found an inclination to migrate "evident across a broad swath" of the population.
This wide push to leave is probably now as strong as the pull of higher wages, social advancement, and family connections in the US. And yet, Mexican leaders remain in denial about this propensity for mass exodus.
All this spells trouble for proposals by President Bush and some in Congress to set up a temporary worker program as a way to reduce the burden of illegal migration. The Mexican demand for such US "guest" visas could be, by some estimates, half a million a year. Yet the numbers in the proposals fall far short of that. The US could hardly absorb such a large wave of humanity without further challenges to its civic stability.
In other words, a guest-worker plan is a false promise of ending the waves of illegal border crossings. The challenges on America's southern flank are only getting worse. Arizona and New Mexico this month declared emergencies along their borders with Mexico, citing a rise in crime related to drug and people smuggling - and an inability by Washington to stem the violence. And the US ambassador to Mexico also criticized its leaders for not curbing border violence; he made a point by closing the consulate in Nuevo Laredo.
Just five years ago, Mexico had great hope of reform after the ouster of the Revolutionary Institutional Party, or PRI, which had governed since 1929. But President Vicente Fox's reform efforts have faltered. The nation's three main parties remain internally divided and unable to compromise. Decades of oil wealth have left people too willing to take handouts rather than accept the kind of taxation that creates citizens with a stake in government. With Mr. Fox a lame duck, Mexico is heading for a presidential election next July that could see another weak leader.
As dissatisfaction with politics and justice translates into Mexicans voting with their feet, the US needs to recognize that the "border issue" is much more of a "Mexico issue."
The US should further beef up border security, but also help Mexico regain national integrity. Legally hiring Mexicans is hardly a solution.
As it is doing with Africa, the US must peg better economic relations to better governance in Mexico, such as laws allowing referendums and run-offs for presidential elections. Rather than view such pressure as gringo meddling, the Mexican people might just welcome a challenge to their government. And think of staying put.
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The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
from the May 28, 2009 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0528/p09s01-coop.html
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What will America stand for in 2050?
The US should think long and hard about the high number of Latino immigrants.
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