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Harry Reid doesn't want illegal immigration, ACORN provisions in unemployment extension bill - 10/26/2009

The Senate is deliberating passage of a 14-week extension of unemployment benefits. Mitch McConnell wants to include provisions about illegal immigration and ACORN, but Harry Reid - not surprisingly - does not (link): McConnell is insisting on consideration of an amendment to prevent ACORN from receiving federal funds, and another designed to filter illegal immigrants out of the workforce. The Ken...

DHS scraps "no match" program, e-Verify still operational - 10/08/2009

... is supporting another program (EVerify) enabling employers to check workers' names against electronic records that are supposed to screen out illegal immigrants. See the no match summary for the backstory; groups collaborating on the lawsuit included the American Civil Liberties Union and the US Chamber of Commerce.

Shuler to re-introduce SAVE Act (require E-Verify, increased border enforcement) - 7/23/2009

North Carolina Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler - together with Sen. David Vitter - will re-introduce the "Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act" (SAVE Act). Per this it would: * Require employers to use the federal government's E-Verify database to make sure they're hiring legal workers. * Increase the number of Border Patrol agents by 6,000. * Create a pilot pro...

Senate makes e-Verify permanent for federal contractors (House might disagree; border fence) - 7/08/2009

Per this: The Senate voted Wednesday to require federal contractors to use an electronic employee eligibility verification system and to set construction standards for the fence now going up along the border with Mexico... [the first] was adopted by voice vote after a motion to kill it failed, 44-53. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., offered the amendment, reflecting GOP frustration over the Obama admin...

Patrick McDonnell /LAT ignores plight of American workers; fails to note Schey's Mexico links; fails to call UFCW on corruption - 6/12/2009

... company - which is now using eVerify - has since hired replacement workers who are presumably eligible to work in the U.S. and may include a large number of previously unemployed U.S. citizens. The illegal aliens aren't in such a good position, but they can always return home and press their own governments for reform. That would be the best public policy. Obviously, the LAT and McDonnell ha...

Obama admin to make it easier for illegal aliens to get stimulus, other government jobs? (e-Verify) - 6/12/2009

... contractors to verify new hires (using eVerify). But it will eliminate the language requiring them to verify all previously employed workers on the contract. That means that all the illegal aliens already working for federal contractors can keep their jobs and unemployed Americans will not have a chance at them. I talked with a former official of the Department of Homeland Security who said there...

U.S. Chamber of Commerce: $10 million for lobbying in 1Q 2009, including twelve lobbyists on immigration - 5/15/2009

The US Chamber of Commerce spent almost $10 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2009 for all issues combined. The Associated Press enumerates the issues here: The government's $700 billion financial rescue package and Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, were among the high-profile issues the Chamber lobbied on during the first quarter... The group also lobbied on: union organizing...

Perdue Farms refers eVerify questions to Tamar Jacoby - 5/09/2009

The somewhat fair report from Ned Potter of ABC News entitled "Illegal Immigration: Can Online Database Help?" (link) contains this curious bit: Few companies contacted by ABC News were willing to talk on the record about their experiences with E-Verify. For instance, the giant poultry company Perdue sent the following statement : "We are doing all that the law allows to verify each...

Immigration strawman arguments about: civil rights abuses, 287g, family separation, "stateless" children, alternative detention, eVerify - 5/09/2009

Rep. Lamar Smith offers "Amnesty Pushers Concoct Six Straw Men" (link), a collection of logical fallacies that illegal immigration supporters use. The points raised aren't of much use unless those supporters - such as nationally-known politicians - are confronted with them, and if you can do that on video that could have a serious impact on those supporters' careers. It include...

Obama immigration budget: does a McCain: border security, then amnesty; fulfills promise to Mexican government; worried about southbound flows - 5/06/2009

Remember how when John McCain used the cheap, misleading tactic of talking about how he wanted to "secure the border first" and then use that to push for amnesty, and Obama supporters lied and said he didn't support comprehensive immigration reform anymore? Well, now Barack Obama wants to secure the border first and then use that to push for amnesty. Somehow it's different this...

E-verify for government contractors delayed again, until June 30 - 4/20/2009

... delayed implementation of the EVerify program for those contractors (link). That program lets employers check the employment eligibility of prospective employees, and illegal immigration supporters have fought against it being anything but its current status as a voluntary program. This is the third delay so far, all of which have occured this year. The supposed reason is for administrative revie...

Obama asked stock question about immigration, gives stock, uneconomic reply (smears e-Verify; Orange County) - 3/19/2009

... topic, Obama is smearing the EVerify system, pretending that it's designed to flag those with Hispanic names when in fact it uses Social Security numbers. Comparing Obama's remarks to highly similar remarks made by George W Bush is left as an exercise; they'd be a very close match. UPDATE: There's video of his remarks here.

ACLU controlling Obama policy? ("Transition Recommendations" wants most immigration enforcement halted, + much more) - 3/17/2009

In November, the American Civil Liberties Union released "Actions For Restoring America: Transition Recommendations for President‐Elect Barack Obama" (aclu.org/transition) listing things they wanted him to do the first day, within the first 100 days, and within the first year. Several of their proposals would halt immigration enforcement to a great extent, pending "review". T...

E-Verify extended for six-months; Leahy, Reid block five-year extension - 3/10/2009

A six month extension for the EVerify program was successfully added to the omnibus spending bill, but an amendment from Sen. Jeff Sessions to extend it for five years was blocked through the machinations of Patrick Leahy. Details and a list of those who voted for and against Leahy's procedural issue here; commentary on individual senators is here. Seven Dems voted against Leahy; the three na...

Obama budget 2010: healthcare reform reserve fund; $1.75 trillion deficit; e-Verify; blames GOP, Wall Street - 2/26/2009

... continue expansion of" the EVerify program. 5. Funding to expand the HOPE for Homeowners program (link): 225 million in 2009, 1.375 billion in 2010, and 900 million in 2011, after which it will supposedly stop.

CBO: SAVE Act would have cost $40 billion over 10 years, incl. $30 billion for e-Verify (Tim Sparapani/ACLU lies) - 2/15/2009

... it shows that the outlay for eVerify would be about $12 billion over ten years. e-Verify would also result in the federal government losing about $17 billion over ten years from the moral hazard of taxation on money that was earned illegally; while a significant amount, the government shouldn't be in the business of profiting from illegal activity.

Pro-illegal immigration groups oppose E-Verify for stimulus bill - 2/09/2009

... groups" oppose the use of the EVerify program as part of the stimulus plan (link):

E-Verify delayed pending "review" until April, May 2009 - 1/31/2009

From this: A notice published Friday in the Federal Registrar confirms that a program that would require federal contractors to ensure that their employees are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be postponed by 90 days. The E-Verify system, an electronic internet-based system that enables employers to compare the names and Social Security numbers of new employees against a government dat...

Can illegal aliens get jobs or benefits under the Stimulus Bill? - 1/26/2009

... mean? Does that mean they use EVerify for every employee? And, is the use of that "transitive"? That is, could a company get around that rule by using subcontractors that would then employ illegal labor? Starting on page 110, a report is mandated concerning the costs of the program on "small entitities". That might be an entree to blocking EVerify later, but it doesn't se...

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