Tancredo Seeks to Overturn 'No Match' Court Ruling
Tancredo Seeks to Overturn 'No Match' Court Ruling
Larry Fester
Published 10/14/2007 - 12:37 p.m.
Republican Presidential candidate and Congressman, Tom Tancredo, announced that he plans to introduce legislation that would overturn a recent federal court ruling preventing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from sending "no-match" letters to potential employers of illegal aliens.
The letters would be sent to employers that have employees that have submitted fake or incorrect social security numbers. The agency was prepared to send 8.7 million letters prior to the preliminary injunction.
"Congress must take out the legs from underneath the court's misguided ruling with legislation," said Tancredo. "By giving DHS direct authority from Congress to send out the no-match letters, the court would be hard pressed to find another excuse to prevent DHS from enforcing our immigration laws."
The federal district court judge, Charles Breyer of San Francisco, ruled earlier this week that DHS had exceeded its authority in issuing new no-match letters to employers.
The new letters require employers to verify employee Social Security Numbers and submit new paperwork to DHS. If the employer still refuses to do anything about potentially illegal employees within 90 days, DHS' new rule says that he may be held criminally liable.
"After years of prodding, DHS finally is trying to take the single most effective step to curb illegal immigration---going after rogue employers," said Tancredo. "DHS is trying to give its no-match letters teeth and the American public shouldn’t have that effort short-circuited by some San Francisco judge."
Tancredo says that the “illegal alien lobby – big business addicted to cheap workers and labor unions hungry for more members – went to court and won a preliminary injunction to stop the letters from being issued.â€
