Lars Larson pounds on Gordon Smith over hiring of illegal immigrants
Kari Chisholm

Conservative radio talker Lars Larson isn't very happy with Senator Gordon Smith. While he sympathizes with Smith's complaints about Willamette Week being a "liberal tabloid", he wants Smith to directly answer the allegations contained in the story.

Have a listen. It's a gem: AUDIO: http://www.blueoregon.com/2008/09/lars-larson-pou.html

Key items:

Smith says his company won't use E-Verify because it's not a "biometric" scan -- meaning photo, fingerprint, and "iris scan". Smith then goes further and argues that the federal government ought to have a database that includes photos, fingerprints, and iris scans for every American. (Seriously. Page the ACLU.)

Smith may have accidentally admitted that he really does run the company. Despite numerous protestations that he's "not allowed to run this company", he says "the instructions I have given to [the professional managers]" are to comply with the law. Oops -- he's not allowed, under federal law, to manage the company.

Larson challenged Smith to immediately resolve the questions about his hiring practices - by simply running all the SSN's of his employees through the E-Verify program, right now. (Smith dodged the question; changing the subject.)

Larson noted that if the local police department is able to quickly verify the immigration status of Smith's employees (when they're arrested), then it should be equally easy for Smith Frozen Foods to quickly verify their immigration status. Lars is right. This just isn't that complicated.
http://www.blueoregon.com/2008/09/lars-larson-pou.html