Yareni De Anda
09/11/09
12:11pm
This article discusses the new E-verify system put into place by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that requires employers to run workers identities through the online program to verify their legal status to work in the United States. This system is new and currently the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has only focused on federal contractors to enforce the use of the system. They state that no federal contracts will be given to companies who have not verified that their employees can work in the United States legally. The E-Verify system works by running the information from the Employment Eligibility Verification Form against databases of the DHS and the Social Security Administration (SSA). The main point of the system is to deter employers from employing unauthorized people from working in the United States. They system is no where near to a perfect system. Many groups including labor unions, immigration rights activists and civil liberties groups believe the system is full of errors. These groups are concerned that misspelled names, wrongly entered birthdates and other information might lead to eligible workers wrongly losing jobs or not being hired for jobs they are qualified to do. The rule that states that E-Verify must be used by federal contractor extends to contractors already working under federal contracts and subcontracts. This includes those receiving American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Stimulus) funds. Companies under these contracts will have 30 days to use E-Verify to confirm the legal status of all their workers. Overall this article gives the basic facts about the E-Verify system and restrains from providing any sort of opinion about the practicality or benefits of the system.
In my opinion this article is good at providing a basic understanding of the new E-Verify system but fails to discuss the other issues behind the new system. This system is not simply a fully positive addition to the federal efforts to control and stem undocumented migrants from working in the United States. On one hand I agree that enforcement through employer regulations is a more intelligent and humane way to control immigration flows than the previous focus on only border enforcement. However, I am not confident that this enforcement technique will work without problems and could end up leading to further racial profiling and social issues between the American population and hardworking migrants. I hope that this system helps the federal government change their focus on how to control the flow of migrants into the United States, focus on this system would be much better than focus on further border walls and militarization of the international border.
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The incident that occurred in Congress by Rep. Joe Wilson R-NC, illustrates the consequences of a blurring line between illegal immigration and health care. Our politicians have been alerted to the angry voices of the American people. For once they have disregarded the business campaign contributors and all the cloaked gifts given for services rendered by special interest lobbyists. Millions of US citizens are enraged with the status quo buying favors from our representatives that has led to our wilting economy. Today speaking on behalf of Washington committees on health care, the lawmaking emphasized that illegal aliens cannot access the new health reform package, that any person applying will be checked through government databases.
E-Verify might be implemented for this very issue, that it has shown in the majority of cases remarkable successes in remove illegal alien workers from the working environment. E-Verify can solve this problem and bring sanity back to immigration enforcement. E-VERIFICATION OF EACH AND EVERY AMERICAN WORKER MUST BE MADE PERMANENT? NOT JUST VOLUNTARY POLICY, BUT AS A FULL FORCE OF OPERATION CARRYING STRICT PENALTIES. This operation will work under federal policies? But what about state laws? California as an example is a Sanctuary state for millions of illegal immigrants and their families? Other border states are also occupied by large proportions of unlawful populations of foreign nationals?
This last year has culminated in huge financial losses in California caused by millions of low income illegal aliens, which has created a third world community within the United States. There must be federal measures to bring under control, massive spending benefits for people who have no right from benefiting from those who come here legally or were born here. How can any public health care option work at a state level, when states like California ignore federal law, regarding financial refuge to indigent people? Our own people remain homeless and in many cases without hope, when legislators have prioritized, health care, education an overloaded jail system and easy welfare money for illegal immigrants?
The once golden state has been using taxpayer money, to support illegal aliens, when the same expenditures should have been adopted for a collapsing infrastructure. Highways, schools, tunnels, bridges and dams in a dangerous state of disrepair? Our legislators in many cases have been seduced by lobbyists and should be banned from any contact with our politicians. This will never happen, but something must be done? Millions have been spent on derailing the health care reform currently and in the past, as has immigration enforcement. Rescinding 287(g) federal training for local police enforcement of immigration laws, the NO MATCH LETTER and the cutting back on ICE raids on obnoxious businesses using foreign workers.
The order to crush E-verify was given to Sen.Harry Reid, Speaker Pelosi, Janet Napolitano, but narrowly survived in the Senate chambers. Both political parties are equally to blame for not enforcing the 1986 Immigration Control & Reform Act that was inundated with fraud and a desire to weaken the laws. Now they want to rescind that law, offering yet another reform package that will never function? Let’s not kid ourselves! Huge veiled forces are at work to import as much cheap labor as possible with no restraints, lowering wages and an unconscionable burden on taxpayers.
DON'T LET THE POWERS IN WASHINGTON WHITEWASH THE FACTS! DEMAND THE ORIGINAL DESIGNED FENCE AND THE FULL IMPLEMENTATION OF E-VERIFY, 287 (g), THE SAVE ACT AND AS WRITTEN, THE 1986 SIMPSON/MAZZOLI BILL AND AMEND THEM IF NEED BE? NO MORE IMMIGRATION REFORM? DO THE JOB THEY WERE VOTED FOR? CALL YOUR POLITICIANS AT 202-224-3121 AND DEMAND THESE LAWS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE? MORE ANSWERS FOUND AT NUMBERSUSA & JUDICIAL WATCH.
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