Thread: Bush: Federal contractors must confirm immigration status of

Bush: Federal contractors must confirm immigration status of employees

contractors will have to confirm their employees are legal residents of the USA under an amendment to executive order No. 12989 that President Bush signed Friday and the White House announced this morning:

This order is designed to promote economy and efficiency in Federal Government procurement. Stability and dependability are important elements of economy and efficiency. A contractor whose workforce is less stable will be less likely to produce goods and services economically and efficiently than a contractor whose workforce is more stable. It is the policy of the executive branch to enforce fully the immigration laws of the United States, including the detection and removal of illegal aliens and the imposition of legal sanctions against employers that hire illegal aliens. Because of the worksite enforcement policy of the United States and the underlying obligation of the executive branch to enforce the immigration laws, contractors that employ illegal aliens cannot rely on the continuing availability and service of those illegal workers, and such contractors inevitably will have a less stable and less dependable workforce than contractors that do not employ such persons. Where a contractor assigns illegal aliens to work on Federal contracts, the enforcement of Federal immigration laws imposes a direct risk of disruption, delay, and increased expense in Federal contracting. Such contractors are less dependable procurement sources, even if they do not knowingly hire or knowingly continue to employ unauthorized workers.

Contractors that adopt rigorous employment eligibility confirmation policies are much less likely to face immigration enforcement actions, because they are less likely to employ unauthorized workers, and they are therefore generally more efficient and dependable procurement sources than contractors that do not employ the best available measures to verify the work eligibility of their workforce. It is the policy of the executive branch to use an electronic employment verification system because, among other reasons, it provides the best available means to confirm the identity and work eligibility of all employees that join the Federal workforce. Private employers that choose to contract with the Federal Government should meet the same standard.

I find, therefore, that adherence to the general policy of contracting only with providers that do not knowingly employ unauthorized alien workers and that have agreed to utilize an electronic employment verification system designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security to confirm the employment eligibility of their workforce will promote economy and efficiency in Federal procurement.

The Associated Press says Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez will discuss the new rules at a news conference this afternoon.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/20 ... al-co.html

Did somebody drop Bush on his head? This all sounds too good to be true and is what immigration enforcers have been asking the government to do all along...set an example.

What's the catch?

Earlier Thread at

http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-118686-0.html

Dubya's Executive Order Re Illegal Aliens: Too Little, Too Late!
Monday, 09 June 2008
By John W. Lillpop

Breaking News!

The White House has announced that President George W. Bush signed an executive order requiring that those who do business with the federal government assure that their employees are working in the country legally.

That breaking news was released on June 9, 2008.
It should have been one of the lead headlines on Wednesday, September 12, 2001, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Bush should have made more headlines that day by issuing an executive order causing US borders to be sealed by the military and by ordering that all illegal aliens be hunted down and deported immediately.

Instead, Dubya decided to invade a nation 8,000 miles away while leaving our borders unsecured.

As a result, untold millions of illegal aliens and potential terrorists have invaded America, while the Iraq war has destroyed the Republican Party and threatens to leave the nation in the hands of confirmed socialists like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and all the rest.

Shame on George W. Bush for such reckless and foolish abdication of his constitutional responsibilities!

John W. Lillpop
San Jose, California
http://www.borderfirereport.net/john-w. ... -late.html