Thread: E-Verify Extended Until Next Year?

I just heard Lou Dobbs say that E-Verify has been extended until next year, at the dismay of Menendez, when a new President will have to deal with it. Did anyone else hear this?

Just through March apparently. Keep calling! From NumbersUSA:

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Continue Pressuring Senate to Pass H.R. 6633; House-Passed CR Contains Short-Term E-Verify Extension
Updated Friday, September 26, 2008, 7:30 AM

The House passed a Continuing Resolution (CR; H.R. 263 that, among other things, would extend the E-Verify program through March 6, 2009. The Senate has yet to act on the measure so there is still a chance for Senators to approve H.R. 6633 - the House-passed, five-year E-Verify reauthorization bill. If you want to avoid another debate in a different Congress with a potentially more challenging political climate, please call your Senator today (202 -224- 3121) and ask him/her to pressure Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to allow a vote on H.R. 6633 this week.

A CR must be passed before October 1 – the beginning of Federal fiscal year 2009 -- in order to keep the government running because Congress has not passed any fiscal year 2009 spending bills for Federal agencies thus far. The House leaders' inclusion of a short-term E-Verify extension in this must-pass measure is a bittersweet development.

If the extension language remains in the final measure Congress passes, we will at least know that the E-Verify program, which has done so much already to turn off the illegal-alien jobs magnet, will survive for four months. However, this also would necessitate fighting the reauthorization battle all over again in March with a new President in the White House who may or may not support the program.

The best outcome continues to be Senate passage of H.R. 6633, the House-passed E-Verify reauthorization bill. There are two ways in which Majority Leader Reid can still facilitate a vote on the bill:

1. Ignore the hold Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) has placed on H.R. 6633, and allow a cloture vote on the Senate floor. If he does this, there easily will enough votes necessary to stop Menendez' filibuster and enable passage H.R. 6633; or

2. Avoid a vote altogether by talking to Menendez privately, persuading him that what he is doing is threatening the reputation of the Democratic Party just before elections and get him to withdraw his "hold" on H.R. 6633. Reid could then bring H.R. 6633 to the floor for a unanimous consent vote.

Either way, the American worker and public wins.

It is particularly important to put pressure on Democratic Senators to put an end to Menendez' grandstanding. If you call Republican Senators, please thank them for standing firm and ask them to not flinch.

Good news from the House. On September 23, the Judiciary Committee did not take up H.R. 5882, which would add an additional 550,000 permanent green cards next year, and H.R. 5924, which would add 20,000 additional foreign nurses per year for three years (plus their families). It is not known if the Committee will still consider the bills before recess, or if the bill’s proponents will attempt to attach the measures to another bill destined for passage.

Now education time for these elected officials; they need to know we, Americans, know what the employers have been doing with I-9s since 1986.

JUST PUTTING I-9S IN A FILE CABINET; NO VERIFYING OF I-9S HAS TAKEN PLACE SINCE 1986!!!!

What a break for employers, undocumented immigrants, and Congress; but not for us, AMERICANS.