Thread: ILW: It's racist to re-authorize E-Verify

The "racist" thing is just getting so misused, overused...it's ridiculous...now the Immigration Law Weekly editors are stating that it's racist to re-authorize E-Verify unless illegals are given some other immigration benefit. Tellingly, they urge Senator Menendez of NJ to oppose E-Verify or at least throw the illegals a bone within the stimulus bill.....

Time to call Senator Menendez and remind him that he works for American citizens and not the illegal alien lobby, the profiteers of illegal immigration and certainly not the anti-American editors of the Immigration Law Weekly.

Read on..........


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No Enforcement Without Benefits

Congressional authorization for E-Verify expires on March 6th (as it does for Religious worker visas and the EB-5 program), and this has the anti-immigrationists worked up in a frenzy. In the dying days of the last Congress, the House agreed to a 5-year reauthorization of E-Verify. The Senate agreed to go along with the proviso that half a million visas be "recaptured" giving relief to legal immigrants waiting patiently in line for years, and in some cases decades, for their turn. These visas had been undercounted due to errors by the INS/USCIS, so there is no increase in immigration involved. Sen. Menendez was responsible for insisting on some benefits in exchange for the anti-immigrationists' top enforcement priority. Due to the resulting impasse between the two chambers, the matter was deferred to March 6th.

Despite the overwhelming voice of the people in November, not much appears to have changed in the House of Representatives. Two Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee proposed attaching E-Verify to the gigantic catch-all economic stimulus bill currently the country's top priority, and the Democrats on that committee meekly agreed to do so without any dissent (so much for any show of support by the Democrats toward immigrants). A senior member of the Democratic leadership in the House is quoted as saying that "I think that they can make this one die in the Senate". We can expect that the anti-immigrationists will flood the Senate with thousands of calls and faxes on E-Verify during this week to deny legal immigrants any relief from lengthy separations from their families in the US. All this for a program that has been repeatedly criticized as denying jobs to USCs and LPRs due to database errors and which will delay Economic Stimulus relief from getting to the hands of those who need it (since the House bill conditions relief only to those employers enrolled in E-Verify). As Arizona learnt the hard way, most employers are in no hurry to enroll in E-Verify, the anti-immigrationists are asking Congress to sacrifice any chance of economic recovery in order to aid the antis in their racist goals of impeding legal immigration.

We urge the United States Senate and Sen. Menendez in particular to insist that any reauthorization of E-Verify include some benefits, at a minimum the recapture provision, plus hopefully some more benefits such as the nurse relief provisions which have been pending for a long time. There is no point in enforcing immigration law if there are no immigration benefits that law-abiding immigrants and employers can avail themselves of, such enforcement is racism in another guise. We urge our readers to contact the US Senate (and the media) to reject the racists' vision of America and to embrace instead a view of America consistent with the best in our history - America as a nation of immigrants.

We welcome readers to share their opinion and ideas with us by writing to editor@ilw.com.

http://www.ilw.com/immigdaily/

Thanks Legalatina, the "racist" whine just makes me laugh, it's so out of touch with reality.

For every letter the pro-illegals send, I muster at least half a dozen AMERICANS for enforcement.

We urge the United States Senate and Sen. Menendez in particular to insist that any reauthorization of E-Verify include some benefits, at a minimum the recapture provision, plus hopefully some more benefits such as the nurse relief provisions which have been pending for a long time. There is no point in enforcing immigration law if there are no immigration benefits that law-abiding immigrants and employers can avail themselves of,

They are shockingly absurd, I don't know how they say this crap with a straight face. Maybe they are laughing as they write it.

They also love to use the ol' "America is a land of immigrants". They want to have their burrito and eat it too. America is not a land of immigrants who demanded illegal immigrants be empoyed before American citizens, and then demanded if not, they should get special benefits. Now its not just that they want regular social benefits, they want special benefits if America dares to use E-Verify.

We urge the United States Senate and Sen. Menendez in particular to insist that any reauthorization of E-Verify include some benefits, at a minimum the recapture provision, plus hopefully some more benefits such as the nurse relief provisions which have been pending for a long time. There is no point in enforcing immigration law if there are no immigration benefits that law-abiding immigrants and employers can avail themselves of, such enforcement is racism in another guise. We urge our readers to contact the US Senate (and the media) to reject the racists' vision of America and to embrace instead a view of America consistent with the best in our history - America as a nation of immigrants.

The WHAT? We have to reward people for breaking our laws by coming here illegally? Otherwise the most welcoming nation on earth is accused of racism? Thanks for the link as they sure as pudding will hear from me.
This whole crap has got to stop. This country has laws. If you violate those laws you are no more entitled to any benefits than the guy who just murdered someone.

Just sent golden words:

have to say I have never read anything as blatantly pro-illegals, the millions that keep swarming the borders of our country. They have broken a law by not having permission to come to this country, and now we have to give them rewards for breaking our immigration laws?
Years ago, Americans may have been racist as to the color of one's skin, but we seem to have moved well beyond that point. Most Americans do not care what the color of skin is these days, but they worry about what illegals are doing to their chances for a job to feed the family.
While Americans are worried about the future, do you really expect this population to give cookies to illegals for slithering into this country?
And may I point out that there has been no real definition of the 14th Amendment whether these so-called "anchor babies" are actually citizens when the parents are illegal. Getting shoved across the border as you are about to give birth should not count as the conception of the child was on foreign soil.
Citing racism on behalf of criminals (whether committing misdemeanors or felonies) is an extremely racist thing to do.