Results 1 to 3 of 3

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

  1. #1
    Senior Member American-ized's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Monroe County, New York
    Posts
    3,530

    RI-EDITORIAL: E-Verify weeds out illegal workers

    Froma Harrop: E-Verify weeds out illegal workers

    By: Froma Harrop
    The Spokesman-Review
    May 15, 2009

    While the recession has rattled every rung of the economic ladder, it has ravaged the bottom bars. Unemployment stands at just over 4% percent for college graduates but at nearly 15 percent for those lacking high school diplomas. In poor black neighborhoods, it’s around 30 percent and approaching Great Depression levels.

    So let’s talk about illegal immigration in a serious way. Even in good times, the large presence of undocumented workers hurts our low-skilled natives and legal immigrants. Given today’s broken economy, it would seem unconscionable not to address the situation.

    The Obama administration has launched some early immigration reforms, and they make sense. Notably, it has moved the brunt of enforcement away from the unauthorized workers and onto those who hire them.

    Of all the players in this drama, the illegal immigrants are the least blameworthy. They are hard workers who took advantage of what any reasonable person would have seen as an open labor market.

    That does not justify the continued hiring of them at the expense of our most vulnerable populations. Rest assured that if college grads were to flood illegally into this country and depress the salaries of Americans who make and write about policy, the laws would have been enforced long ago.

    President Barack Obama’s new approach is more effective as well as more humane. It orders Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to impose fines and press criminal charges against employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. They may arrest workers only when the local U.S. attorney agrees to prosecute the bosses.

    For such a policy to work in the long term, there must be an easy way for companies to check the legal status of a new hire. And there is a way. E-Verify lets employers confirm a worker’s information with the Social Security Administration database over the Internet.

    Westat, an independent research company, found that E-Verify cleared 96 percent of employees within 5 seconds. Less than one half of 1 percent was not verified because of errors in the Social Security database. (Employers can’t fire them while the mismatch is being contested.) The rest were illegal workers.

    Advocates of open borders – both defenders of illegal immigration and cheap-labor businesses – have run a campaign to demonize E-Verify precisely because it does the job. It enables enforcement of the law without scenes of ICE agents hauling away poor foreigners in handcuffs.

    We still await a comprehensive immigration plan, which would deal with the millions of illegals already established in this country. A “path to citizenshipâ€

  2. #2
    Senior Member SOSADFORUS's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    IDAHO
    Posts
    19,570
    Please support RI....here is the link to our "Action Alert"
    contact information at link:
    http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-156313.html
    Please support ALIPAC's fight to save American Jobs & Lives from illegal immigration by joining our free Activists E-Mail Alerts (CLICK HERE)

  3. #3
    Senior Member lccat's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2007
    Posts
    2,584
    Why do they continue to support the ILLEGALS. Do they not receive any feedback from their readers??

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •