San Diego - The White House announced that it would create 600,000 new jobs in the next 100 days. This is leaving many lawmakers upset that the E-Verify employee verification program has been pushed back for a fourth time to September 8.
E-Verify is an online employment verification system operated jointly by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA). The simple and effective program allows participating employers to check the work status of new hires online by comparing information from an employee’s I-9 form against SSA and DHS databases.
Currently the program is being used by more than 100,000 employers who have checked approximately 6.5 million potential employees in the 2008 fiscal year, according to DHS.
The popularity of this free and effective program has been overwhelming, says Meg Whitman, 2010 GOP California governor front runner. Republican lawmakers believe that this program is an essential tool for employers who are committed to maintaining a legal workforce.
According to DHS, the number of new employers using the program is increasing by more than 1,000 per week. Under the Bush administration all federal contractors and subcontractors were to be required to verify all employees through the program by June 30, however, the Obama administration has delayed enforcement of the program.
“The administration needs to stop playing political games and rectify this situation immediately so taxpayer money isn’t funding illegitimate employment and hard-working citizens aren’t pushed to the back of the employment line,” House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee ranking member Harold Rodgers, R-Ky. said.
At a time when jobs are hard to come by many lawmakers are questioning the reason for the DHS lagging attitude with E-Verify. “American workers should not have to compete with illegal immigrants for employment, especially taxpayer-funded federal contract jobs,” House Judiciary ranking member Lamar Smith said.
Echoing that sentiment is Congressman Bilbray R-Calif. “a lot of the jobs that will be created through the stimulus bill are construction-related. It is these jobs that are often taken by illegal immigrants and I think it is flat out wrong to be helping those who are not in this country legally.”
Bilbray contends that E-Verify is so easy to operate congress can use it. “Putting off this simple verification process to prevent employers from hiring illegal citizens is just wrong.”
During a speech at the Aspen Institute in Washington on June 3, the head of DHS Janet Napolitano praised the E-Verify program.
“We’ll be asking the Congress as part of our ongoing efforts in the immigration field to reauthorize E-Verify to put more money into E-Verify as part of our budget.” She went on to say that in an effort to crack down on employers DHS “ought to have mechanisms to make it easier for them (employers) to comply with the law.”
Critics of the program claim there are too many errors, however according to DHS the numbers remain under 5 percent.
Then why has the White House put off the implementation of E-Verify? Bill Wright of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says it is not politically motivated. “The new administration just needs an adequate opportunity to review the rule.”
One of the proponents of E-Verify is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce who has filed a lawsuit challenging the rule. The case is pending within the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
In the end, delaying E-Verify will result in less enforcement and more rewards for those here illegally, according to Bilbray. “Americans citizens are the ones who will lose.”
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Hey Kim,
You are a bitch. Do not forget how your ancestors came to the US. They did not have to go through the net of immigration. Anyone who goes through this process now suffers from post immigrational trauma.
I have family in California. My mom is a US citizen, so is my sister. By the time my parents got their gr cards from the DV lottery, I was 23. I'd gotten married several months before my visa epired. However, my wife was a total psycho and she called INS the 3rd week after our marriage. She was just totally jelaous of anything?
So, what was I supposed to do? To go back to Europe and not be able to see my family for 10 years?! Screw that!
So, just be more careful when you compose this biased articles. Demonstrate more professionalism and do not take a side in this sensitive issue.As you may see, not all illegals are unable to speak and write inEnglish. This letter is a clear example for that. Similarly, do not forget that there are hundreds of thousands of Europeans who
AMERICANS for American workers must keep contacting their legislators in whatever state they reside for a permanent E-verify. Only public outcry demanding the illegal alien "ATTRITION" enforcement program can elevate the millions of foreign nationals who try to find work. So far special interest groups are working to block the revised SAVE ACT With E-Verify), Real ID act, police enforcement 247(g). Now we have heavily sponsored Criminal Alien Removal (CLEAR) Act (H.R. 2406,
which will start removing illegal foreigners with criminal records. In conclusion we have a massive battle ahead to stop any kind of AMNESTY, because it will not only break this nation financially, but it will start the inception of irreversible OVERPOPULATION. understand more about the repercussions at NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH. Undisclosed illegal immigration news reports at AMERICANPATROL.
I think obama and his thugs want to give this Country away to the ILLEGAL ALIENS. They, the ILLEGAL ALIENS, are already making the United States the dumping grounds for all their ILLEGAL ALIEN chldren...at taxpayers expense, may I add. Then we have to school them and give them medical care, and medical care for the parents (parent). Oh, I guess a lot of the ILLEGAL ALIENS are in public housing like obama's aunt, again at taxpayers enpense.
O say it's time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these ILLEGAL AIENS. It' time for them to get back to their own country where they belong. When we get rid of the ILLEGAL ALIENS, we get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!
ENFORCE THE LAW! NO AMNESTY!
Hey Illegal from Europe,
So you admit that you are breaking our immigration laws, hope they catch your sorry a*s, and deport you. As for thousands of Europeans, if you came legally, welcome! Illegally, hope they catch and deport you also. As far as immigration in the distant past, that was then, this is now. The American government has a right to restrict how many people immigrate here, and to protect the American public and our resources. We can not allow anyone that wants to, to just immigrate. My country would become just another third world cesspool like many of the countries the Illegals ran away from. I do not care if you are just trying to make a better life for you and your family, if you are here Illegally, get out of my country.
It is a scandal that Obama has let E-Verify slide. It is a betrayal of all of us who were looking for real enforcement of our current laws. Instead, all we get is pap about "immigration reform" which is the new euphemism for amnesty.
Oh, well. Sit back and have a good laugh with ...
Everything you need to know about immigration and what to do about it humorously told.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBw1nUlf38I
(Roy Beck and NumbersUSA are the "gumball" heroes)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ
Well said, Delaware Bob!!
By the way, another drunken illegal alien male(a self-canceling phrase) just mowed down 2 Americans, a mother and her daughter as they left a dance class.
The open-border groups are launching a major push for amnesty in Washington D.C.
Please get involved NOW to stop this amnesty madness.
Join NumbersUSA and make your voice heard.
We are a consensual society under a Constitution that provides rights, freedoms and the mechanics to create laws that we citizens live by. Citizens accept that breaking our laws results in proscribed punishments. An unholy alliance of lawbreaking illegal aliens, criminal employers and elected officials that look the other way are hypocrites and anarchists. They feel that they can pick and choose which laws are convenient for them to follow and willingly break those that are personally inconvenient. This breaks down our legal system and works against the rule of law that we depend upon for our daily safety and national security. All lawbreaking illegal aliens should be deported, all criminal employers should be jailed and elected officials that have failed to carry out their oath of office to defend the Constitution and our laws should be fired, voted out of office, impeached and perhaps charged with criminal dereliction of duty. The 1986 amnesty was a total failure. Never again!
"adequate time to review the results"??? Like how many years has it been working already?
Show me ANY Govment program with a 96% success rate, you won't. The real reason it's "kicked down the road" is that it works, big time. When that 4% that comes back is adjusted, it's more like 99.5% effective as most clear up paper mistakes in a couple of days and the rest that don't, well, they're ILEGALS!
The reason Pres. Urkle doesn't want it implimented is simply because it does work and removes future "undocumented democrats".
This is so obviously corrupt it stinks all the way to San Diego.
Hi:
I already mentioned in another article about immigration. I met Americans, and just for mentioning a couple. One of them gets money from the state because he declared himself disabled; He is perfectly ok for having fun, but, not to work. The other one has just left jail. He does not work. He does not study. His wife does not work or study either. They have FIVE kids. They get money from your taxes because of the kids. I work hard. I pay taxes. I’m just getting graduate from college with a 3.5 GPA, and yet you people are worried about an illegal immigrant like I am, and you are very happy of people like my neighbors?. It just makes no sense, and you know it.
Regards.
Mexico's second highest income is from illegals sending money home! google it! do you understand how really HUGE that is?? how many of them MUST be here illegally to make that happen?? 12 million? HA! more like 40 million?? we are being invaded, without one shot being fired! does anybody have a CLUE?? whos job it is to protect and defend the United States?? to ABIDE by the CONSTITUTION???? what does it mean? to break the law? why all the infighting? they broke the LAW! period! google "operation w*tback" Eisenhower had this very same problem. he quietly and EFFECTIVLY took care of it! why can we not do the same??? they walked, rode, swam over here. they can do the same going home taking their anchor babies with them! and then, if they want. they can GET IN LINE. like all the rest of the "LAW ABIDING " people that do it the RIGHT WAY!!!
So Obama's the dictator now? By the way, Francisco, stop sponging off American citizens and give yourself up to the law. You know in your heart, you haven't the slightest right to be here. P.S in case your some stupid New York liberal, and not Francisco at all, why don't you do something usefull, like jump in a cold lake.
Francisco---No matter how hard you try to spin it, you're still nothing but an illegal alien who has no business being here. Do the right thing and self-deport, will you already?
What many CITIZENS are failing to understand is this: This whole financial crisis was CREATED by the Socialist Left in order to create a society in which we DEPEND on government. That is how they CONTROL us! if we are free and independent (as mandated by our Constitution) we are not under their control. By forcing more and more CITIZENS out of work, they are better able to control us...if you get government money to buy the simple needs, then you must abide by their rules - you are under their control!
Watch the video "the Obama Deception" - make sure you find the full version...it will give you an idea of where we are headed!
Immigration is just a small part of this - but in many ways, THOSE WHO ARE HERE ILLEGALLY NOW HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN YOU AND I WHO INHERITED OUR CITIZENSHIP IN THIS ONCE-GREAT NATION!
If you don't like it, then GET OFF THE COUCH!Get out and FIGHT for your freedoms...by the time our children take over, we will look like a third-world nation!
Litl Bits, of course you are absolutely right, and Americans don't see the danger. In fact, they don't see much of anything outside of their own little world until in finally collpases because they did not pay attention to these traitorous politicians. Who are those? Oh you know, the ones that continue to ignore the citizenry, but allow millions of people to enter the nation illegally and get this, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE LEGALLY. IN THIS KIND OF ECONOMY!!! All proof that Litl Bits, is RIGHT ON.
Illegal alien from Europe needs his ass deported back. We don't call women Bitches here in America, son. Remember that? We also don't care about your phony B.S. problems, follow the law and be a good boy, or get out of my nation, you idiot.
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