NumbersUSA endorsement letter for Rep. Lamar Smith's E-Verify bill, H.R.1147
NumbersUSA endorsement letter for Rep. Lamar Smith's E-Verify bill, H.R.1147
NumbersUSA endorsement letter for Rep. Lamar Smith's E-Verify bill, H.R.1147
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced during a closed-door meeting with House Republicans this morning that they will vote on the Senate-passed version of the DHS funding bill that provides full funding for Pres. Obama's unconstitutional amnesties. Boehner called the vote a "full cave" in their efforts to stop Obama's actions and expected the vote to take place later today.
A report released on Friday cited the causes for the surge of illegal aliens across the border late last summer. According to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, the debate over legalizing illegal aliens was “a primary cause” of thousands of Central Americans crossing into the United States illegally.
Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is the lead sponsor of the Legal Workforce Act, which would expand use of E-Verify for all employers. E-Verify is a web-based system that checks the Social Security numbers of newly hired employees against Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security records to help ensure that they are genuinely eligible to work in the U.S. Today, nearly 575,000 American employers voluntarily use E-Verify, and an average of 1,400 new businesses sign up each week for E-Verify.
2015: House vote on motion to accept Senate changes to H.R. 240 to fund Executive Amnesties
According to ABC News10, Foreign workers are filling hundreds of Sacremento-area IT jobs that could be filled by Americans. Tech companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook spend millions lobbying Congress every year claiming they need hundreds of thousands of foreign workers to fill jobs here in the United States.
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) warned democrats that their support for President Obama's Executive amnesty will undermine the rule of law and they could regret years from now.
“…I’ll make you this promise,” Gowdy warned, “There will come a day where you will cry out for the enforcement of the law. There will come a day when you long for the law to be the foundation of this republic.”
Gowdy made these comments during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Obama’s action.
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