Indicating he wanted an amnesty attached to the E-Verify legislation, the President added, “We may not be able to get everything that I would like to see in a package, but we have to have a balanced package.”
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OBAMA CONTINUES TO SABOTAGE E-VERIFY SO HE CAN PUT MORE OF HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE (ILLEGALS) IN OUR JOBS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED, AND HIS CORPORATE DONORS HAPPY AND GENEROU$$$$$
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Obama Tip-Toes Around E-Verify; Continues to Push for Amnesty
At a press conference in the White House last week, President Obama avoided answering whether he would sign a mandatory E-Verify law if Congress presented one to him. “[I]f you receive a mandatory E-Verify bill only, without legalization, are you planning to veto that bill?” a reporter asked the President. “[W]e need comprehensive immigration reform,” replied the President. “I’ve said it before, I will say it again, I will say it next week and I’ll say it six months from now.” Indicating he wanted an amnesty attached to the E-Verify legislation, the President added, “We may not be able to get everything that I would like to see in a package, but we have to have a balanced package.”
Congressional Republicans rejected the notion of allowing mandatory E-Verify to be hijacked as part of a comprehensive immigration reform bill. “E-Verify should be considered as a stand-alone bill,” said House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX). (CQ Today, June 29, 2011) “It is not an immigration bill, it’s a jobs bill,” he said of his own mandatory E-verify legislation. (Id.) Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and chief sponsor of mandatory E-Verify legislation in the Senate, also rejected the President’s remarks. “[At the Dream Act hearing], members of the president’s Cabinet, who claimed to be speaking for the administration, said they wanted an individual piece of immigration legislation passed. Yet today, the president said we have to consider E-Verify in a comprehensive immigration plan. It seems like the president wants it both ways.” (Id.)
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"Because of the Obama administration's record, it cannot be trusted with these powers," said Smith in a letter dated June 23 encouraging other House members to sponsor the bill with him.
DEMS ARE NOW THE PARTY OF LA RAZA “THE RACE” ILLEGALS!
The bill has little chance of becoming law. Even if the bill passed the House, it probably would not pass the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/mexican-fascist-party-of-la-raza-orders.html
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Republicans seek to roll back discretion in immigration cases
By Brian Bennett, Washington Bureau
1:25 PM PDT, June 24, 2011
House Republicans are targeting an Obama administration effort to give immigration officials more leeway when it comes to deciding who to deport from the U.S.
Lamar Smith (R-Texas), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, plans to introduce legislation next month that would suspend the Obama administration's ability to exercise executive discretion in immigration cases.
Smith's bill, called the HALT Act, would strip the administration's power to defer deportation of immigration violators, grant work authorization or grant temporary protected status to immigrants who are fleeing a disaster.
The bill is aimed only at the Obama administration: In the proposed legislation, the executive powers would be restored at the end of this presidential term.
"Because of the Obama administration's record, it cannot be trusted with these powers," said Smith in a letter dated June 23 encouraging other House members to sponsor the bill with him.
The bill has little chance of becoming law. Even if the bill passed the House, it probably would not pass the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Smith's move comes a week after the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement instructed immigration officials to take into account a number of factors when deciding whether to continue deportation proceedings against an individual, such as a person's pursuit of education and whether the person came to the U.S. as a young child and has family relationships in the U.S.
The policy changes by the administration came in response to concerns that a federal information-sharing program called Secure Communities was unintentionally ensnaring illegal immigrants who are minor offenders, victims of domestic abuse and other crimes, witnesses to crimes and people who were arrested but not convicted of offenses.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) has pushed for changes to the Secure Communities program and described the new policy guidelines as a "step forward.”
Still, the changes didn't address concerns by local sheriffs that illegal immigrants will be less likely to report crimes if local fingerprint checks are linked with the immigration database, Lofgren said in an interview on Friday.
Also, Lofgren is concerned that immigration agents on the ground may not follow the new instructions.
Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council union that represents about 7,000 ICE employees, called the new directives a "law enforcement nightmare” that make it difficult for ICE agents to know who can and cannot be arrested.
Some of the new factors in the June 17 memo from ICE Director John Morton corresponded with circumstances that would make someone eligible for the DREAM Act, a proposed law that has yet to get through Congress but would create a path to citizenship for young people in the country illegally who go to college or serve in the military.
"The Obama administration cannot continue to pick and choose which laws it will enforce,” said Smith in a statement Friday. Smith plans to introduce the HALT Act sometime next month.
The DREAM Act, which is under consideration in the Senate, will be the subject of a Senate hearing Tuesday.
Smith plans to introduce the HALT Act sometime next month. The HALT Act stands for "Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation" Act.
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/rep-lamar-smith-fights-for-american.html
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
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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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OBAMA IS GOOD AT WORKING LA RAZA PROPAGANDA SO IT APPEARS HE ENFORCING THE LAW, WHEN IN FACT HE’S SABOTAGING IT DAILY!
REMEMBER, IT WAS BARACK OBAMA THAT WAS CALLED A LIAR AS HE GAVE HIS STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE AND CLAIMED OBAMAcare DID NOT INCLUDE ILLEGALS. IT DID THEN, AND DOES NOW!!!
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/will-e-verify-diminish-millions-of.html
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Open-Borders Groups in Panic... Massive Loss of Illegal Alien Jobs (Put Americans back to work!)
Open-Borders Groups in Panic That 'Chairman's E-Verify Bill' Will Result in Massive Loss of Illegal Alien Jobs
By Roy Beck, Friday, June 17, 2011, 3:41 PM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA
One way to judge the likely effectiveness of Chairman Lamar Smith's national mandatory E-Verify bill is the panic it has caused among the nation's biggest promoters of illegal immigration. They attack Rep. Smith's bill because they say it will take the incomes away from large swaths of America's illegal population. Well, I guess that's the point isn't it, because those incomes will now go to unemployed American citizens and legal immigrants who already are here.
The big pro-amnesty coalition called Reform Immigration FOR America screamed in its mass email:
Mass firings, mass deportations
Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, was allowed by the authoritative The Hill publication on Capitol Hill to make personal attacks on Rep. Smith, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee because his E-Verify bill (H.R. 2164) would give illegal-alien jobs to unemployed Americans instead of the illegal foreign workers:
(Lamar Smith is) Congress's biggest obstacle to fixing one of our country's worst and most pressing problems . . . . he has indicated that comprehensive immigration reform is dead on arrival in his committee . . .
Noorani's group was the lead group in the massive coalition that tried to pass the 2007 Bush-Kennedy-McCain amnesty. He and others for months now have been waging a public relations campaign to demonize Chairman Smith as the man who more than anybody is standing in the way of the dreams of millions of illegal aliens to be given a permanent permission to keep their jobs.
Of course, that kind of demonization can cut two ways and establish Lamar Smith also as the man who more than anybody is fighting for the dreams of America's unemployed who want those jobs held by millions of illegal aliens.
America's Voice (a deeply ideological and partisan pro-amnesty group that formed after the 2007 amnesty defeat) reacted to Chairman Smith's introduction of H.R. 2164 with:
It's going to be a long, hot summer for anyone who cares about sensible immigration reform, now that Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is in charge of the House Judiciary Committee. . . . Smith's motivation? He wants to expel 8 million undocumented immigrants out of the formal labor market in hopes they will go home. The strategy is called 'attrition through enforcement.'
At Wednesday's committee hearing on H.R. 2164, the pro-amnesty champions echoed the warning of the advocacy groups that Chairman Smith's bill is the biggest threat to illegal immigration in years, if not ever.
They absolutely refused to accept that any unemployed Americans would want any of the 7 million-plus jobs held by illegal aliens in construction, service, manufacturing and transportation. And they repeatedly decried Chairman Smith's refusal to give those 7 million-plus jobs permanently to the illegal aliens now holding them.
The pro-illegal-immigration officials and lobbies know what will happen if H.R. 2164 becomes law because what has happened in states like Arizona and Georgia with E-Verify laws that don't do half of what H.R. 2164 would do. Illegal workers have been leaving those states in droves, even though the state laws only deal with new hires. Chairman Smith's bill deals with all new hires but also with 99% of illegal aliens in their current jobs (something that no state law does).
Right now, a lot of the illegal workers who leave the four states with laws requiring E-Verify for all private employers tend to go to neighboring states and take jobs from citizens there.
But a national law will leave them no choice but to go back to their home countries.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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