Friday, September 4, 2015

WELFARE USE BY LEGAL AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS - September 4, 2015 - ROBERT RECTOR - REIHAN SALAM - DR. STEVEN CAMAROTA - MARK KRIKORIAN

Welfare Use by Legal and Illegal Immigrants  
Panel to introduce new report 

WASHINGTON, DC (September 4, 2015) — The Center for Immigration Studies will host a discussion at the National Press Club focusing on a report scheduled to be released simultaneously. The Center's report, Welfare Use for Legal and Illegal Immigrant Households, reports immigrant welfare use, separating legal and illegal households. Two nationally recognized policy experts, along with the Center's director of research and author of the report, will discuss this important new study.
 
Immigration has become a central issue in the presidential campaign and this report examines a critical part of that debate. Earlier this week, the Center released a report, Welfare Use by Immigrant and Native Households, which examined the welfare use for all immigrant households, without looking separately at legal vs. illegal immigrants.
 
Date: Thursday, September 10, 2015, at 9:30 am
 
Location: National Press Club, Zenger Room, 529 14th St, NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC
 
Participants:
 
Robert Rector
Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation
A leading authority on poverty, welfare programs and immigration in America, Rector played a major role in crafting the 1996 federal welfare reform legislation and in analyzing and researching fiscal costs of immigration policies over the past decades. Rector's many writings include the book America's Failed $5.4 Trillion War on Poverty.
 
Reihan Salam
Executive Editor, National Review
Political commentator, columnist, and author, Salam is the executive editor of National Review, a fellow at the National Review Institute, and a columnist for Slate.
 
Dr. Steven Camarota
Director of Research, Center for immigration Studies, and author of Welfare Use for Legal and Illegal Immigrant Households and Welfare Use by Immigrant and Native Households.
 
Mark Krikorian (Moderator)
Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies 


Contact: Marguerite Telford
202-466-8185, mrt@cis.org



THE OBAMA ASSAULT on the AMERICAN WORKER: IT’S WORKING!!!

"With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working people."



http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/09/amnesty-democrat-partys-plot-to-keep.html

“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers, stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”




ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER: For a united struggle of US steel, auto and telecommunications workers!

For a united struggle of US steel, auto and telecommunications workers!

THE OBAMA ASSAULT on the AMERICAN WORKER: IT’S WORKING!!!

"With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working people."



http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/09/amnesty-democrat-partys-plot-to-keep.html

“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers, stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”


SEN. BERNIE SANDERS ON HILLARY’S SERVITUDE TO OBAMA’S CRIMINAL CRONY BANKSTERS… their looting continues unabated.


…. but will Mexico elect LA RAZA SUPREMACIST Hillaria?

"I think that the business model of Wall Street is fraud," said Sanders. "I think these guys drove us into the worst economic downturn in the modern history of America and I think they're at it again. I believe that when you have so few banks with so much power you have to ... break them up. That is not Hillary Clinton's position."




OBAMA-CLINTONomics is a simple device - Serve the super rich and pass the cost of their looting and Wall Street crimes on to the backs of the last of the American middle-class!



"Of course, the wealth of the financial elite cannot come from nowhere. Ultimately, the continual infusion of asset bubbles is the form taken by a massive transfer of wealth, from the working class to the banks, investors and super-rich. The corollary to rise of the stock market is the endless demands, all over the world, for austerity, cuts in wages, attacks on health care and pensions."




“As a result, the share of wealth held by the richest 0.1 percent of the population grew from 17 percent in 2007 to 22 percent in 2012, while the wealth of the 400 richest families in the US has doubled since 2008.”

IN AMERICA NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!! - Record 94,031,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Stuck at 38-Year Low for 3rd Straight Month

Record 94,031,000 Americans Not in Labor Force; Participation Rate Stuck at 38-Year Low for 3rd Straight Month

THE OBAMA ASSAULT on the AMERICAN WORKER: IT’S WORKING!!!
"With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working people."

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/09/amnesty-democrat-partys-plot-to-keep.html
“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers, stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”


THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN WORKER: Full-time jobs at an all-time high, 173,000 payroll jobs added in August

Full-time jobs at an all-time high, 173,000 payroll jobs added in August


THE OBAMA ASSAULT on the AMERICAN WORKER: IT’S WORKING!!!

"With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working people."



http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/09/amnesty-democrat-partys-plot-to-keep.html

“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers, stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”


COLLAPSE OF JOBS MARKET AS MEXICO EXPANDS OCCUPATION: Mixed jobs report muddles Fed's rate hike decision

Mixed jobs report muddles Fed's rate hike decision


THE OBAMA ASSAULT on the AMERICAN WORKER: IT’S WORKING!!!

"With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working people."



http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/09/amnesty-democrat-partys-plot-to-keep.html

“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers, stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”


THE OBAMA DEPRESSION: Alternate math puts unemployment at 10.3 percent

Alternate math puts unemployment at 10.3 percent



THE OBAMA ASSAULT on the AMERICAN WORKER: IT’S WORKING!!!

"With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working people."



http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/09/amnesty-democrat-partys-plot-to-keep.html

“But these attempts to palm off the Democrats as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers, stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.”


AMNESTY: THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S PLOT TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED! - Wages for low-income workers collapsed under Obama

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY: PARTY of NO E-VERIFY, NO BORDERS and NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!

"With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and

its trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to 

fraudulently posture as advocates of working people."



Foreign-born women gain 141,000 jobs, U.S.-born women lose 90,000

By Paul Bedard (@SecretsBedard) • 9/4/15

The surge in the numbers of foreign-born women getting U.S. jobs at the expense of American-born women expanded in August, continuing an eight-year trend.

New Bureau of Labor Statistics info detailing August jobs shows that the number of U.S.-born women 16 and older with jobs declined by 90,000 and rose for foreign-born women by 141,000.

There are currently 59.258 million American-born working women compared to 10.028 foreign-born working women.

Secrets last month reported that all job gains among women since the 2007 recession hit went to foreign-born women workers.




AMERICA: NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!!!



It started the day Obama moved into the White House and commenced the perpetration of his “hope & change”.

24,639,000: Record Number of Foreign-Born Hold Jobs in U.S.



"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws." 

Wages for low-income workers collapsed under Obama

Wages for low-income workers collapsed under Obama

By Andre Damon
4 September 2015
With the approach of the 2016 elections, the Democratic Party and its trade union allies are once again ramping up their efforts to fraudulently posture as advocates of working people. Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have called for raising the federal minimum wage, while the Obama administration has made much ado about a set of trivial changes to miscellaneous work rules that it claims will significantly benefit low-income workers.

But these attempts to palm off the Democrats as defenders of the working class, and in particular of low-income workers, stand in stark contrast to the actual record of the Obama administration, which has waged a systematic and determined campaign to slash the wages of workers in order to further enrich the banks, hedge funds and major corporations.

This reality was made clear in a report published Wednesday by the National Employment Law Project (NELP), which showed that, despite the reduction in the nominal unemployment rate and continued increases in productivity, workers’ wages fell sharply under the Obama presidency. 
Overall, workers’ wages declined by four percent, after adjusting for inflation, between 2009 and 2014. But the lowest-paid workers saw the sharpest decline: those in the lowest-earning quintile had their wages fall by 5.7 percent, compared with a 2.6 percent decline for the top-earning quintile.
“Stagnant wages have become a fact of life for nearly all of America’s workers, but workers in lower-paying occupations are finding it especially tough to keep up with the rising cost of living,” said Christine Owens, executive director of the NELP, in a statement. “Not only are their paychecks not growing, but their purchasing power has shrunk considerably, and to a far greater extent than that of higher-wage earners.”

For workers in low-paying industries, including food preparation workers, janitors and cleaners, personal care aides, home health aides, maids and housekeeping cleaners, the drop was even sharper. The report notes, “Food preparation workers and cooks saw wage declines of 7.7 percent and 8.9 percent, respectively (amounting to roughly $1,622 and $2,185 less in income in 2014 than in 2009).”
Retail sales workers had their real median wages fall by 5 percent, personal care aides had their wages fall by 6.6 percent and janitors had their wages fall by the same amount.

To the extent that there has been a growth in the number of jobs in the US labor market, it has been overwhelmingly in low-wage sectors. A 2014 report by the NELP found that while US businesses had added 1.85 million low-wage jobs over the previous six years, they had eliminated 1.83 million medium-wage and high-wage jobs during the same time.

This trend is only set to continue in the coming period. The new report notes, “Five of the ten occupations that the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects will add the greatest number of jobs between 2012 and 2022 were at the bottom of the occupational distribution in 2014, with real median wages between $8.84 and $10.97.”

It added, “In addition, six of the 10 highest-growth occupations experienced real wage declines of 5.0 percent or more between 2009 and 2014, as compared to a 4.0 percent average decline across all occupations.”

The report notes, “The declines in real wages since the Great Recession continue a decades-long trend of wage stagnation for workers in the United States.” But Irene Tung, a senior policy researcher at the NELP told the New York Times that “the imbalance in the economy has become more pronounced since the recession.”

The same day as the NELP published its findings, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) published a report showing that while labor productivity has continued to grow since 2008, wages have fallen dramatically, with the entire benefit of the growth in productivity going to corporate shareholders and executives.

The EPI reported, “Net productivity grew 72.2 percent between 1973 and 2014. Yet inflation-adjusted hourly compensation of the median worker rose just 8.7 percent, or 0.20 percent annually, over this same period, with essentially all of the growth occurring between 1995 and 2002.”

The report added, “If the hourly pay of typical American workers had kept pace with productivity growth since the 1970s, then there would have been no rise in income inequality during that period.”
These figures express the consequences of the decades-long assault on workers’ wages and benefits that has been dramatically accelerated under the Obama administration.

Beginning in the 1970s, the US ruling class responded to the decline in the world position of American capitalism with a ruthless policy of deindustrialization and class warfare. With the full complicity of the trade unions, US corporations slashed millions of manufacturing jobs and used the resulting rise of mass unemployment to slash workers’ wages and benefits.

The US government responded to the 2008 financial meltdown by seeking to impose the entire burden of the crisis onto the working class. Even after the Obama administration funneled trillions of dollars into Wall Street banks, it made the expansion of low-wage manufacturing a precondition for providing funds to the automakers in the 2009 restructuring of GM and Chrysler. This set a precedent for slashing wages throughout the economy.

Now, seven years after the 2008 crisis, the US and world economy appear headed toward another financial crisis and slump. Under these conditions, the ruling class will only accelerate and deepen its offensive against workers, seeking once again to impose the burden of the capitalist crisis onto the working class.




SEN. BERNIE SANDERS ON HILLARY’S SERVITUDE TO 

OBAMA’S CRIMINAL CRONY BANKSTERS… their looting 

continues unabated.




…. but will Mexico elect LA RAZA SUPREMACIST Hillaria?

"I think that the business model of Wall Street is fraud," said Sanders. "I think these guys drove us into the worst economic downturn in the modern history of America and I think they're at it again. I believe that when you have so few banks with so much power you have to ... break them up. That is not Hillary Clinton's position."




WHICH HAS MORE CONTEMPT FOR LEGALS, OUR BORDERS AND LAWS???
MEXICO or the DEMOCRAT PARTY which funds the MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA???




EVERY DAY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FUNDS THE EXPANSION OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN FASCIST OCCUPATION and BUILDS THE MEX WELFARE STATE ON OUR BACKS…. They already get our jobs!!!


Mark Levin: ‘Unbridled Immigration, Legal and Illegal, Is Taking the Country Down’

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2015/07/mark-levin-unbridled-immigration-legal.html


IG: DATA ON ILLEGAL ALIEN WORK PERMITS ISSUED AFTER INJUNCTION IS “UNRELIABLE”…. Obama’s LA RAZA SUPREMACY ADMINISTRATION games the system…. again!


WASHINGTON STATE: What? You thought only America’s southwest was invaded, occupied and looted?!?!?
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“The hauled them down to the border,” Sakuma said. “Three days later, they were standing in our office, but they had a different name and a different Social Security number.”

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The Employment Situation of Immigrants and Natives in the Second Quarter of 2013

 

By Steven A. Camarota August 2013

That President Obama would lawlessly bring in more cheap labor at the request of corporate interests at a time when tens of millions of Americans are unemployed speaks volumes.
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Income inequality grows four times faster under Obama than Bush

…. we bankroll Mexico's welfare state in our borders as the number of Americans (Legals) sink into poverty! Illegals also get all the jobs!



The study noted that, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the US undertook policies “during the New Deal [that] permanently reduced income concentration until the 1970s.” In contrast, the study noted a striking absence of any measures to reign in social inequality in the present crisis. Far from it, the Obama administrations’ bank bailouts, austerity program and wage-cutting policies have vastly expanded the prevalence of social inequality.

REPORT: ALIEN NATION…. push 2 for English

How the American people permitted the U.S. tax supported Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA “The Race” invade, occupy and loot America.


http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/06/corporations-funding-mexican-fascist.html



 DEPORTATION LIES: Obama’s conspiracy to surrender to our borders to Mexico as he fights for the borders of Muslim dictators over there.


“The watchdogs at Judicial Watch discovered documents that reveal how the Obama administration's close coordination with the Mexican government entices Mexicans to hop over the fence and on to the American dole.” Washington Times 


Giving Illegals Access to Welfare ‘An Assault on the U.S. Taxpayer,’ Researcher Says

Robert Rector of The Heritage Foundation


70% of all invading ILLEGALS end up on welfare. Getting an American job with a stolen social security number is NEVER and issue!!!

“The share of immigrant-headed households (legal and illegal) with a child (under age 18) using at least one welfare program continues to be very high. This is partly due to the large share of immigrants with low levels of education and their resulting low incomes — not their legal status or an unwillingness to work. . ."



Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'

what is the REAL cost of all that “CHEAP” Mexican labor? Add it up and then factor in the MEXICAN CRIME TIDAL WAVE and the fact that the MEXICAN  now operate in 2,500 American cities!



COMING FOR OBAMA’S AMNESTY, ANCHOR BABY WELFARE AND U.S. JOBS…
Nearly a MILLION more…..


Mexicans  jumped America’s open borders  this year.




THERE ARE NOW 40 MILLION ILLEGALS IN  OUR COUNTRY, JOBS AND WELFARE LINES!

ANCHORS
POPULATION SURGE

MEXICO DOUBLES THE POPULATION OF AMERICA, FILLS OUR JOBS, PRISONS AND WELFARE OFFICES  AND VOTED DEM FOR MORE!



JUDICIAL WATCH:                

“Our friends at the Center for Immigration Studies just this week announced that their 

analysis of census data shows that "the nation's immigrant population (legal and illegal) hit  

 a record high of 42.1 million in the second quarter of this year - an increase of 1.7 

million since the same quarter of 2014."  This means that the noncitizens now 

comprise "13.3 percent of the nation's total population - the largest share in 105 years.”



Obama's 'Hispanicazation' of America



January 10, 2011

By: James Walsh 

Casting a shadow on economic recovery efforts in the United States is the cost of illegal immigration that consumes U.S. taxpayer dollars for education, healthcare, social welfare benefits, and criminal justice. Illegal aliens (or more politically correct, “undocumented immigrants”) with ties to Mexican drug cartels are contributing to death and destruction on U.S. lands along the southern border.

While the declining job market in the United States may be discouraging some would-be border crossers, a flow of illegal aliens continues unabated, with many entering the United States as drug-smuggling “mules.”


BILLIONAIRES, THE U.S.CHAMBER of CRONY CAPITALISM, ALL 

UNIONS, THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA PARTNER 

WITH THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERFY

and BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO KEEP ILLEGALS JUMPING OUR 

BORDERS


OBAMA-CLINTONOMICS: Keep wages depressed with endless hordes of illegals jumping our borders, jobs and welfare lines!

“But any serious look at the latest figures reveals why Jim Clifton, head of the Gallup polling agency, has denounced the official unemployment rate as a “big lie” that largely ignores the continued prevalence of mass unemployment in the United States.”



“Obama’s trivial proposal on overtime pay is in line with the record of his entire presidency, which has sought to impose the full cost of the global capitalist crisis on the backs of the working class, while doing everything possible to protect and expand the wealth of the financial oligarchy that controls political life in the United States.”
 

 UNIONS ASSAULT THE AMERICAN WORKER… just like the Democrat Party, Wall Street, LA RAZA Fascist Party, and Mexico
“In city after city, minimum wage laws have included union exemptions. The pro-business US Chamber of Commerce published an extraordinary report last year, “Labor’s Minimum Wage Exemptions: Unions as the ‘Low-Cost’ Options” which provided details about many of these ordinances.”


“After decades of betrayals, the unions are incapable of boosting membership through appeal to workers. Instead, with the backing of a host of pseudo-left supporters, the minimum wage ploy is being used to entice employers to install unions in their workplaces and funnel money from workers’ already meager paychecks into the bank accounts of the union executives.”


NAFTA AND THE DEATH OF A NATION

THE CONSPIRACY TO SURRENDER AMERICA’S BORDERS…. The partnership between Wall Street-owned Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and the  KOCH BROTHERS to surrender our borders and borders laws to assure a steady flood of illegals into America.


Keeping wages depressed and passing along the real cost of all that “cheap” labor through taxes on the American middle-class will keep their corporate paymasters happy, profitable and generous. There is not ONE billionaire that does not support Obama’s amnesty hoax to legalize Mexico’s looting.

Our national sovereignty and manufacturing base has been destroyed 

through NAFTA and CAFTA which has resulted in totally open borders

culminating in the overwhelming of our  infrastructure, hospital emergency

rooms and our educational institutions by the human onslaught which will

be soon be at unprecedented levels which promise to bring 150 million

additional immigrants to our country by 2040.


Obama Quietly Erasing Borders

Article Link:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=240045


NAFTA, the BUSH, CLINTON(S), and OBAMA DEVICE TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN MIDDLE-CLASS…. Is it working?

This nation no longer is a democratic republic...rather it has become a tool of the super-rich members of the above mentioned elite who preselect our presidents based on their cooperation and complicity with the elite’s ultimate goals. Obama has, in their opinion done superbly carrying out the plans well laid out for him by his backers.
         



“Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) warned his colleagues in Congress that Americans will vote them out of office in November if they do not act this week to thwart President Barack Obama's plans to grant work permits and amnesty to up to eight million more Americans via executive fiat.”


JUDICIALWATCH.org

DOJ Accuses U.S. Biz of Discrimination for Requiring Proof of Work Eligibility

SEPTEMBER 02, 2015

In its crusade to protect and assist illegal immigrants, the Obama administration has accused an American company of discrimination for requiring employees to furnish proof that they are eligible to work legally in the United States.
You know the nation is in trouble when a U.S. business gets investigated by its own government for following the law. The case involves a Nebraska meat packing company that demanded workers to furnish proof of immigration status for the federal employment eligibility verification process. The Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) went after the company, accusing it of engaging in employment discrimination.

In particular the DOJ’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices objected to non-U.S. citizens being “targeted” because of their citizenship status. “The department’s investigation found that the company required non-U.S. citizens, but not similarly-situated U.S. citizens, to present specific documentary proof of their immigration status to verify their employment eligibility,” the DOJ claims. This could constitute a violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), the feds assert, because its anti-discrimination provision prohibits employers from making documentary demands based on citizenship or national origin when verifying an employee’s authorization to work.

With the feds breathing down its neck the business, Nebraska Beef Ltd, agreed to pay Uncle Sam a $200,000 civil penalty and establish an uncapped back pay fund to compensate individuals who lost wages because they couldn’t prove they are in the county legally. Additionally, the business will undergo “compliance monitoring,” which means big brother will be watching very closely. The head of the DOJ’s civil rights division explains that the agency is on a mission to eliminate “unnecessary and discriminatory barriers to employment” so workers can support their families and contribute to the U.S. economy.

This case is part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to helps illegal aliens in the U.S. Besides shielding tens of millions from deportation via an executive amnesty order, the president has also expanded the DOJ to help carry out part of this mission. It’s why the agency’s civil rights division has grown immensely under Obama. A few years ago Judicial Watch reported that the DOJ’s civil rights division launched a secret group to monitor laws passed by states and local municipalities to control illegal immigration. Because the measures are viewed as discriminatory and anti-immigrant by the administration, the DOJ has spent huge sums of taxpayer dollars to track them and legally challenge them as it did in Arizona.

The federal tentacles have reached deeply into the workplace. A few years ago the DOJ civil rights division, under the leadership of renowned illegal alien advocate Thomas Perez, launched a plan to eliminate tests that supposedly discriminate against minorities in the workplace. The administration defines them as having a “disparate impact,” a racial discrimination created by the various written exams. The tests disproportionately screen out people of a particular race, even though they “present the appearance of objective, merit-based selection,” according to the Obama DOJ.

Last year a federal audit disclosed that the Obama administration was letting businesses that hire undocumented workers off the hook by drastically reducing fines and enforcement. During a three-year period the administration slashed by 40% the amount of fines collected from employers caught with illegal immigrants on their payroll, according to the probe which was conducted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General. This inconsistent implementation hinders the government’s mission to prevent or deter employers from violating immigration laws, the DHS watchdog wrote in its report. Now the DOJ is taking it a step further by going after employers that try to ensure their workers are in the U.S. legally.