Thread: Ask State Senators to Support E-Verify Bill... NC

Ask State Senators to Support E-Verify Bill


This is a special message for NumbersUSA members in North Carolina.

Dear North Carolina friends,

State Sen. John Snow introduced a bill (SB 32) that would require city/county governments, and certain state and local government contractors, to use the federal E-Verify system to check the workplace eligibility of new hires. State agencies were required to use E-Verify beginning in 2007, so this is the next logical step in an effort to extend E-Verify usage and thereby free up jobs for unemployed citizens and legal residents.
The state legislative session is expected to end around June 30, but there is still time to push this bill through. It is currently sitting in the Senate Commerce Committee, but has not been given a hearing or a vote. Please call and email the following influential Senators and ask them to ensure that a fair up-or-down vote is held on SB 32:

Sen. President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight (919) 733-6854 Marc.Basnight@ncleg.net

Sen. Commerce Committee Chair R.C. Soles, Jr. (919) 733-5963 RC.Soles@ncleg.net)

Sen. Commerce Committee Vice Chr. David Hoyle (919) 733-5734 David.Hoyle@ncleg.net

Sen. Commerce Committee Vice Chr. Tony Rand (919) 733-9892 Tony.Rand@ncleg.net

Note: Senators Hoyle and Rand are co-sponsors of SB 32.
Also, please ask your Senator via phone and email to do everything possible to ensure passage of SB 32. You can look up your Senator’s name by clicking on this link -- http://www.ncleg.net/Senate/Senate.html -- and typing your zip code under the text “Who Represents Me?â€

You can count on Basnight to hold this up . If it's good for the citizens and not illegal aliens then he will be against it . Way too much common sense here .

Basnight's staffer remarked that E-verify is an "unfunded mandate" that will costs huge amounts of money to North Carolina taxpayers. The problem is cost, he says, and everyone is supposedly complaining about the costs of E-Verify, including businesses and universities (though no specifics were given). Basnight's office said they hope the federal government will pass some sort of reform that won't be an unfunded mandate for the states, which is probably code-speak for amnesty. So that is the argument you can expect.

they voted against Everify didn't they? the airheads.. i guess they just don't care if the citizens of this country has a job or not..

SB 32 is still in committee.

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLook ... tButton=Go

Originally Posted by apropos

SB 32 is still in committee.

http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLook ... tButton=Go

Thanks, if you hear anything else on this one, can you let me know?

Ask State Senators to Support E-Verify Bill

This is a special message for NumbersUSA members in North Carolina.

Dear North Carolina friends,

Thanks to your calls and emails to state legislative leaders, Sen. John Snow’s E-Verify bill (SB 32) will get a vote in the Senate Commerce Committee on Tuesday, June 30. The bill would require city/county governments, and certain state and local government contractors, to use the federal E-Verify system to check the workplace eligibility of new hires. State agencies were required to use E-Verify beginning in 2007, so this is the next logical step in an effort to extend E-Verify usage and thereby free up jobs for unemployed citizens and legal residents.

Please call (during regular business hours) and email the following six influential Senators and ask them to vote YES on SB 32, and to urge their fellow Commerce Committee members to support the bill as well.

Commerce Committee Chair R.C. Soles, Jr. - (919) 733-5963

RC.Soles@ncleg.net

Commerce Committee Vice Chr. David Hoyle - (919) 733-5734 David.Hoyle@ncleg.net

Commerce Committee Vice Chr. Tony Rand - (919) 733-9892 Tony.Rand@ncleg.net

Republican Leader Phil Berger – (919) 733-5708

Phil.Berger@ncleg.net
Deputy Republican Leader Peter Brunstetter - (919) 733-7850 Peter.Brunstetter@ncleg.net

Deputy Republican Leader Neal Hunt - (919) 733-5850
Neal.Hunt@ncleg.net

Note: Senators Hoyle and Rand are co-sponsors of SB 32, so please be sure to thank them. If you have time for additional contacts, please call and email these six Senators as well:

Democratic Whip Katie Dorset - (919) 715-3042

Katie.Dorsett@ncleg.net

Sen. Larry Shaw - (919) 733-9349

Larry.Shaw@ncleg.net

Sen. Julia Boseman - (919) 715-2525

Julia.Boseman@ncleg.net

Sen. Dan Blue - (919) 733-5752

Dan.Blue@ncleg.net

Commerce Committee Vice Chr. Floyd B. McKissick, Jr. - (919) 733-4599 Floyd.McKissick@ncleg.net

Sens. Boseman and McKissick are co-sponsors of SB 32, so please be sure to thank them.

Talking Points

* Please vote YES on SB 32 - Sen. Snow's E-Verify bill – when it gets a vote in the Commerce Committee on June 30, and urge your fellow committee members to support the bill as well. The North Carolina unemployment rate currently stands at 11.1 percent. We need to take action now that will free up illegal-alien jobs for unemployed citizens and legal residents. Our state currently uses E-Verify successfully, but only for those applying for state government jobs. Please take the next step down this road and help North Carolinians in dire straits.

* Another reason we need SB 32 is to help save tax dollars. A recent study by the group FAIR shows illegal immigration is costing North Carolinians over $1.3 billion per year in state social and educational services to illegal aliens and their dependents. Moreover, we'll save on paying out unemployment benefits when North Carolinians are hired instead of illegal aliens. SB 32 is win-win legislation for budget-conscious legislators and unemployed North Carolinians.

* In the past two years, the number of enrolled N.C. companies using E-Verify has increased by more than 700 percent to 2,567. Over 122,000 employers representing 468,000 hiring locations throughout the country use E-Verify, and around 1,000 new businesses sign up for the program every week. Over 14 percent of all non-agricultural new hires are now run through E-Verify.

* 99.6 percent of legal workers with no problems in their Social Security Administration (SSA) records are accurately authorized under E-Verify. Those who have inaccuracies are given instructions on how to clear up their records with SSA and time to do so. The bottom line is that nobody is automatically ruled out for work authorization and those eligible to work in the U.S. will not lose their job. If a person is not work authorized, it's not discrimination if you don't continue to employ them. That's complying with the law.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

Van Esser

Chief, Membership Services

NumbersUSA