Thread: Foes of illegal immigration put pressure on GOP leadership to vote on E-Verify

Foes of illegal immigration put pressure on GOP leadership to vote on E-Verify

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By Kitty Felde

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File photo: Job seekers wait in line to meet with a recruiter. The Inland Empire has already implemented E-Verify to curb the hiring of undocumented immigrants. Now, a bill calls for E-Verify to be used nationwide.

A group calling for a crackdown on illegal immigration is pushing a bill that would require businesses nationwide to verify the work status of their employees. They're also running ads accusing House Republican Speaker John Boehner of not letting Congress vote on internet database E-Verify:



If the E-Verify measure does become law, the Feds say, they’ll be ready ... eventually.

Right now, only a handful of states require employers to check a nationwide electronic database before hiring new workers. According head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Alejandro Mayorkas, so far, more than a 100,000 have tapped into E-Verify.

"We have the capacity currently to process far more queries than we currently handle," he said.

A bill sponsored by Republican House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith of Texas would require nationwide use of Everify. Mayorkas said that would be a challenge.
"If it was mandated across the country, it would take us some time to ramp up for that exponentially greater volume," he explained.

Critics accuse GOP leaders of dragging their feet in an election year for fear of alienating Latino voters. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner says the bill is stuck in the legislative process. The Obama administration supports nationwide expansion of E-verify as part of comprehensive immigration reform.

source: Foes of illegal immigration put pressure on GOP leadership to vote on E-Verify | 89.3 KPCC

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a corporate whore is someone who panders to the wishes of corporations like the big farmers in california who are running their old south slave stytle plantations the big meat packing plants who have depressed the wages to almost half of what they were the construction industry where illegal aliens work for half the wages that americans find acceptable truth is nobody is looking out for the interest of the american working people this is why beohner is holding e verify in limbo he is bought and paid for