Thread: Calif.Legislature tries to stop state use E-verify sys

CA ALERT! California Legislature tries to stop state use of Employment Verification system!


AB 2076, by Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes (D-Sylmar), would prohibit state agencies and local governments in California from using the federal "E-Verify" system to determine if their employees are legally eligible for work. The legislation would also discourage private employers from using the system. The bill won approval in the State Assembly by a 43-31 vote and is now in the State Senate.

According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, E-Verify has already identified 200,000 individuals trying to gain work in the United States who were not entitled, legally, to employment. The verification system is a voluntary, internet-based program used by a growing number of employers nationwide.

The E-Verify system uses information in databases maintained by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration. While there are bound to be glitches in databases of this size, the program provides for probationary periods to clear up any discrepancies among those legally eligible for employment.

While other states attempt to stop the abuse of illegal immigration, the California Legislature seeks to prevent businesses from verifying the citizenship or other eligibility of their employees.

ACTION NEEDED

Tell your State Senator to oppose this bill. Send a fax or an e-mail by entering your ZIP Code and clicking "Go!" below

http://capwiz.com/caps/home/

Where is the link to the source of this information?

Hey Gogo,
I think this is a CA Alert provided by Capwiz, the link to the homepage is at the bottom of the post.

Felipe Fuentes is a dangerous hombre! He was elected to Richard Alarcon's Assembly seat last year (Alarcon is the second most dangerous Reconquista in LA, after Villar)! Fuentes tried to pull a huge scam (see story below) and was forced to withdraw his Bill because one of the alert Council Members caught it before it was passed! He almost succeeded!

WE HAVE TO STOP FUENTES ON AB 2076!!!! PLEASE WRITE OR FAX YOUR STATE SENATOR! HALF OF THE EMPLOYEES IN THE CITY OF LA ARE ILLEGAL!



Death of a bad bill
Article Last Updated: 06/09/2008 08:18:31 PM PDT


There are two ways to judge the worthiness of a legislative bill - the politics behind it and the policy it would produce.

The two aren't one and the same. A bill that's sleazily sneaked through the legislative process can still become a worthy law. And one that's passed honorably and with the best of intentions can, nonetheless, still prove disastrous.

But occasionally there comes along a dreadful piece of legislation that fails on both counts - one that's sleazy in its origins and disastrous in its effect.

Such is the case with AB 212 by Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes, D-Sylmar - a bad bill that came to its rightful demise Monday.
On paper, AB 212 is the eye-glazing stuff of land-use wonkery, restricting the ability of a city (Los Angeles) to make zone changes in areas where the community plan is not consistent with the city's general plan. What that means, in plain English, is that state law would supersede local planning decisions in some particular instances.

Or, to put it more accurately, state law would supersede local planning decisions in one particular instance.

That's because AB 212 isn't so much about changing state land-use policies, but paving the way for one well-connected developer to build 229 homes in the Verdugo Hills.
A little background:

On the site of the Verdugo Hills Golf Course, developer MWH Development Corp. wants to build a massive new housing development. Neighbors, who want to preserve the more rural quality of the area, are opposed, so last year L.A. City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel proposed amending the city plan to limit development to 12 homes.
Enter Fuentes, who, even though his district doesn't include the golf course, has proposed AB 212. The bill is narrowly worded to apply only to Los Angeles, and a supporting analysis prepared for a Senate hearing cites the Verdugo Hills controversy in the background and explanation of the bill. In other words, its very purpose is to clear the way for the MWH development.

Which should surprise no one, since MWH actually sponsored the bill. And, although Fuentes denies there's a connection, MWH principals and other business associates backing the bill have reportedly contributed more than $16,000 to his political campaigns in the past two years.

Thus AB 212 fails on both counts: Its origins are sleazy, with a politician doing the dirty work for well-connected developers who just so happen to fund his campaigns. And its effect would be awful, stripping land-use decisions from local communities, where they rightly belong.

The bill was quietly working its way through Sacramento before L.A. leaders got tipped off and began to kick up a fuss. Their outrage paid off, with Fuentes backing down Monday, and yanking AB 212 from the legislative calendar, thus ensuring its quiet political death.

To which L.A. can reply: Good riddance. This was a truly bad bill, in every sense of the word.

http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_9534145

Are these Hispanic-descended members of OUR local, state, and federal legislatures who pull such antics AMERICANS or TRAITORS?!

Got mine all done sent the letters and the faxes.
This site is a lot of information, and numbers.

:P KOOBSTER

This is the exact reason the individual states can't be trusted to deal effectively with the illegal alien issue. Illegal immigration is a national problem and it demands national solutions.

Let's make E-verify mandatory nationally. Support the SAVE Act!

Anyone have any thoughts on how the California Senate will vote? What about Arnold, does he support the bill?

Originally Posted by joazinha

Are these Hispanic-descended members of OUR local, state, and federal legislatures who pull such antics AMERICANS or TRAITORS?!

They are traitors! With each new election we get more of these hispanic politicians elected to office who lean in favor of the illegals.

Originally Posted by Molly

Originally Posted by joazinha

Are these Hispanic-descended members of OUR local, state, and federal legislatures who pull such antics AMERICANS or TRAITORS?!

They are traitors! With each new election we get more of these hispanic politicians elected to office who lean in favor of the illegals.

Amen Molly!

I wonder if there are anchor baby politicians amongest us?!

Dual country status is not a good thing for politicians.