Thread: Migrant Advocates :Employ Verification Hurting Econ recover

Migrant Advocates Say Employment Verification Hurting Economic Recovery



July 10, 2009

Tucson, AZ – The U.S. Senate is moving to expand the federal system for determining employment eligibility so that current workers will be checked along with new hires. Jennifer Allen, immigration advocate for the Border Action Network, says the changes to E-verify will harm qualified U.S. citizens and non-citizens alike by falsely denying them work.

"The system has been found to be full of error. You can get all sorts of false negative responses from it. The database is just simply not ready."

Supporters of E-verify say such errors are easily corrected by visiting a Social Security office. But, Allen says the additional red tape and workforce disruptions will harm business, especially small business, and slow the economic recovery.

Subjecting existing workers to an E-verify check, she adds, will mean many will lose their jobs.

"There’s a large percentage of people in this country that do not have sufficient documentation; that don’t have government-issued ID, and it’s not because they’re not legal workers."

Allen estimates 21 million U.S. citizens don’t possess a government photo ID, as required by E-verify. She adds, the program doesn’t address the real immigration problem, which is how to match up millions of willing undocumented workers in this country with the thousands of businesses who want to hire them.

"The problem is not that the system doesn’t work for verification. The problem is that workers and employers don’t have policies and practices in place in which they can hire people legally and legitimately."

Allen hopes President Obama follows through on his pledge to enact comprehensive immigration reform this year.




Doug Ramsey, Public News Service - AZ



http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index. ... cle/9670-1

What A Liar!!!!

Sounds like the non-natives are getting restless! LOL

She adds, the program doesn’t address the real immigration problem, which is how to match up millions of willing undocumented workers in this country with the thousands of businesses who want to hire them.

Come on, finish the sentence. . . . . instead of hiring American workers at a decent salary.

HAHA nice try but no cigar for you, bud.

Allen estimates 21 million U.S. citizens don’t possess a government photo ID, as required by E-verify. She adds, the program doesn’t address the real immigration problem, which is how to match up millions of willing undocumented workers in this country with the thousands of businesses who want to hire them.

What is she smoking?!?!?! How about matching up millions of LEGAL immigrants and AMERICAN workers with the businesses who want to hire them?

Illegals have hurt our economy and will continue to do so, DEPORT!!!!

This womans logic is so warped it is pathetic.This reads like "Lets throw this BS against the wall and see if by some miracle it will stick".

What a stupid so and so. If they won't correct their behavior to be fair and honest to the American people, then protect American jobs for practical reasons. If these political elites don't help Americans to keep and get jobs, who is going to pay their "Cap and Crap" "Unstimulus funds" "Bank and Rich Compnay Bail out's" and all the government robbery taxes?

I Googled the place and the idiot that wrote this.
I made sure she knew she was an idiot and TOTALLY WRONG!

I had to fix information on my ss # and it took 5 minutes, she is full of crap! Take away the jobs and many will go home, plain and simple!

It took me a full 20 minutes a couple years ago as I had to stand in line, but met some really nice folks as we waited. No one that I could see in the line was a non-citizen-type that didn't speak English. But the lobby was full of mostly Hispanic folks waiting to see advisors about their welfare payments.

Subjecting existing workers to an E-verify check, she adds, will mean many will lose their job

Well, DUH!

"The system has been found to be full of error. You can get all sorts of false negative responses from it. The database is just simply not ready."

It won't EVER be ready, will it Jenny! We don't need no stinkin illegal alien workers to save our economy. Take that old crud verbage and place it firmly where the sun don't shine.