Thread: IL: Immigrant friendly, forefront bucking national trend

When I read this I almost want to weep -I'm an Illinoisan. Get active, those from Illinois and spread the word. We have some key elections coming up in November.


Immigrant friendly

On immigration, Illinois is at the forefront
in bucking a national trend

by Daniel C. Vock

Illinois lawmakers took on the federal government over its handling of immigration enforcement last spring, and nobody at the Capitol made much of a fuss.

Unions and advocates for day laborers came up with the idea, but even the Illinois Chamber of Commerce was on board. The legislation they supported would bar Illinois businesses from using a federal database called E-Verify to check the legal status of new hires, unless the feds showed the database was at least 99 percent accurate.

Backers of the bill said the database couldn’t be trusted. They pointed to the March 2006 firing of Fernando Tinoco, just four days after he started work at a Chicago meatpacking plant, because of bad information his employer got from the federal government. The database flagged Tinoco as a possible illegal worker, even though he had become a U.S. citizen nearly two decades earlier.

“They’ve got to clean up their act,â€

It's vital we get some changes. The government is immigrant (illegal)friendly, but the people who live here aren't all that happy about it. I just wanted to scream with Blagos kid insurance program. Heck he gave out 50 gas cards to the first 1000 to sign up! This state is in serious debt and for the life of me I don't know how they think they can fund this.