Thread: Immigration, Off the Books

Editorial
Immigration, Off the Books
April 17, 2008

Every American who has a job or wants one should be following the debates in Congress over bills to crack down on illegal hiring. Employment verification is one of the few ideas still lurching around the Capitol after last year’s Senate shootout mowed down a forest of immigration reforms. It’s boring and complicated — it’s about databases — but unlike other immigration fixes, it affects every worker and employer in America, native-born or not.


Two House bills — the SAVE Act, sponsored by Heath Shuler, and the New Employee Verification Act, sponsored by Sam Johnson — are designed to squeeze illegal immigrants out of the country by making it impossible for them to find work.

Immigration reform is always tricky, but employment verification is where the details get demonic.

It starts with a flawed database that everyone would have to rely on to get work or change jobs. Think of the “no-flyâ€

Sleazy employers who already hire under the table would be encouraged, since the millions of workers stranded in the shadows would have nowhere else to go. (They will not deport themselves en masse, no matter what the Minutemen say.) American workers would then be more vulnerable to competition from illegal labor, not less.

Guess this dude hasn't been reading the news reports of them all scattering out of Arizona, or about Mexico's complaint that they can't take back all the people who are flooding back into their home country. Honest to God, some people will say anything to push amnesty. In this fellow's case, he's all wet with his information.

PASS THE SAVE ACT

NY Times....what can you say!!