A Postville, Iowa slaughterhouse was the site for the largest-ever immigration raid conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the new owners are now taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again. The new owner told the Associated Press that they'll start using E-Verify.
This is what I just said in a CNN interview about what Congress has done this week on E-Verify (the top federal leaders of our country once again spit in the eye of jobless Americans). . .
The House today adopted the conference report accompanying the FY 2010 Homeland Security spending bill, which includes a three-year reauthorization of the E-Verify workplace eligibility verification system. The measure will next be taken up in the Senate.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill that would have prohibited cities, counties or districts from requiring employers who receive government contracts to use an employment verification system like E-Verify. AB 1288 was offered by Assemblyman Paul Fong and passed the State Assembly last spring and the State Senate over the summer.
The well-respected Washington publication CongressDaily is reporting that the conference committee charged with reconciling the Homeland Security spending bill has approved a reauthorization of E-Verify for three years.
An immigration panel set up by the Brookings Institution and Duke University has advocated that the current "diversity" visa lottery be abolished, tighter restrictions be placed on family-based immigration, and that workplace verification be required before any amnesty is considered.
The California clothing manufacturer, American Apparel, is firing about 1,800 employees whose identity documents contain irregularities. In other words, they are illegal aliens. The wording in the articles, columns, and editorials written about this would have you believe that the people being fired have done nothing wrong. But they have.
HOUSE CONFEREES
Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah), Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), and Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) added their names to the long list of cosponsors to the House version of the SAVE Act introduced by Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.). The list of sponsors to H.R.3308 is now at 99.
The debate over Sen. Jim DeMint's border fence amendment is stalling the reconciliation of the 2010 Homeland Security spending bill. Sen. DeMint's amendment requires the completion of the fence along the Southwest border and was approved by the Senate, but the House leadership is reluctant to support the measure.
An unemployed construction worker offers observations on the tricks that some greedy employers use to employ illegal aliens in the construction industry.
What a horrible image of anarchy we saw at the San Diego border crossing this week when three vans with an estimated 70 illegal aliens tried to crash their way through hundreds of innocent passengers in dozens of vehicles. Why did they do it? I'm willing to say that a bunch of bishops and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invited them.
On Sept. 8, 2009, the executive order mandating federal contractors to use E-Verify finally went into effect. And, after Pres. Obama's address to a joint session of Congress, lawmakers are looking into adding a verification mechanism into the health care reform proposals.
Time after time after time over the last year, NumbersUSA's members mobilized to advance E-Verify and close off millions more jobs to illegal aliens. And just as many times, you suffered defeat. It is oh so difficult to maintain perseverance, but you did and yours led to a gigantic victory today as the Obama Administration made a huge leap in immigration enforcement.
The E-Verify executive order first issued by the Bush Administration last summer went into effect today after four separate delays. The order requires federal contractors to check the employment eligibility of all employees working on a federal contract worth at least $100,000.
On a dismal day for America's workers, I see a few bright spots that all of us connected to NumbersUSA could make brighter through focused activism this fall. (Look inside.) But the utter hypocrisy and insanity of the elites is on full display as they lament the huge oversupply of workers for jobs after 21 months of a recession in which they have called for more immigration to meet what they claim is a U.S. "worker shortage!"
Roy explains how the federal court's ruling in favor of the E-Verify executive order will help unemployed Americans and details how DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to water down this pro-American worker executive order.
The Obama Administration has dilly-dallied all year in carrying out the Bush regulation to require federal contractors to run new hires through E-Verify. Now that a federal judge has thrown out a court challenge by greedy businesses as essentially being nonsense, Obama should drop plans for watered down regs and use this as an opportunity to put far more Americans back to work than has happened through last winter's Stimulus Bill.
The U.S. District Court in Maryland ruled in favor of an executive order that would require all federal government contractors to use E-Verify.
Senator David Vitter (R-La.) was one of the three original cosponsors to the Senate version of the SAVE Act introduced by Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) last week.
In a letter addressed to Congress, the American Meat Institute is pushing for the enhancement of E-Verify and passage of a mandate requiring its usage. The AMI represents many of the nation's packers and processors of meat and poultry products and their suppliers. Several packing plants came under fire during the ICE raids of the past few years.
Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La.) was one of the three original cosponsors to the Senate version of the SAVE Act introduced by Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) last week.
Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.) was one of the three original cosponsors to the Senate version of the SAVE Act introduced by Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) last week.
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) introduced his bipartisan SAVE Act yesterday with 75 original cosponsors coming from both sides of the aisle. Here's a list of the 75 cosponsors. . .
Two weeks ago, the Senate passed four immigration-related amendments that would ensure the completion of the border fence, mandate E-Verify for federal contractors, permanently extend E-Verify and restart the suspended no-match program. But those amendments are in danger with a looming conference committee and a possible omnibus bill that could replace the bill altogether.
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) and Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) introduced the SAVE Act to both chambers of Congress today with bi-partisan support. The SAVE Act would provide a comprehensive approach to immigration enforcement by securing the borders, putting an end to unlawful employment, and enhancing and fully utilizing current methods of interior enforcement.
According to a report released to the Center for Immigration Studies from the Department of Homeland Security, E-Verify is being used to verify the workplace eligibility of 1 in 4 workers. The system remains mostly voluntary, although 12 states have some mandatory usage laws in effect. Still, E-Verify is being used by more than half a million worksites and could have more than 12 million queries in 2009.
Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chair Chuck Schumer said he would like to pursue a biometric workplace verification tool that would replace E-Verify. Sen. Schumer made the announcement during the third immigration subcommittee hearing of the Congressional session.
Democrats Rep. Shuler and Sen. Pryor this week are re-introducing the SAVE Act which would put more unemployed Americans and legal immigrants back to work than any other action of the federal government this year or next. Here is my official endorsement . . .
We delivered petitions to Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid again this morning -- 10,503 of them. That makes 71,868 so far this week. The offices are politely accepting them each day. The NumbersUSA staff have also spoken in cities across the country via radio shows spreading the same message: Congress needs to keep in the Homeland Security spending bill all the Senate-passed protections of U.S. workers to stop illegal aliens from taking their jobs.
The House Rules Committee, in separate actions involving the FY2010 Energy and Water Appropriations bill (S 1436) and the Financial Services Appropriations bill (H.R. 3170), denied a floor vote on immigration-reduction amendments that would have helped protect American workers. In drafting the rule that defines acceptable House floor amendments for the Energy and Water Appropriations bill, the Rules Committee refused to allow votes on amendments that would have required federal contractors to use the E-Verify program as a condition for receiving government funds [sponsored by Rep.
"U6." No, it isn't a new version of an Irish rock group. It is the more complete look at the victims of unemployment. These are the people who would most benefit from the expanded use of E-Verify to open up jobs held by illegal aliens. Let's make sure that Pelosi, Reid and Obama look at the 25 million American victims before they choose to once again favor illegal aliens for the jobs.
New Minnesota Senator Al Franken was still a comedian and just starting to be an author when I met him at a radio studio in San Francisco in 1996. I was pitching my "The Case Against Immigration" book. I made the case to him in the waiting room. He didn't buy it then. And he definitely didn't buy it last week in his first votes in favor of keeping U.S. jobs in the hands of illegal foreign workers.
Most of you are shocked by the Senate's passage of 4 immigration enforcement amendments this week that would open up hundreds of thousands of jobs to unemployed Americans over the next year alone. This is the Senate that has stood against U.S. workers in favor of illegal aliens repeatedly. While the victories really do represent great progress for our side, we also can be 95% sure that Senate Leader Reid, House Speaker Pelosi and Pres. Obama have every intention of killing these amendments in a backroom deal, just like they killed House-passed enforcement in February. But you can keep that from happening.
Sen. Jeff Sessions offered an E-Verify amendment to the Homeland Security spending bill, requiring all federal contractors to use the workplace verification tool. Sen. Sessions gave the speech during floor debate of the amendment on July 7, 2009. The amendment would survive a motion to table by a 53-to-44 vote and then passed by a voice vote.
