Thread: Four More E-Verify Victories Could Push Congress Into Action

Four More E-Verify Victories Could Push Congress Into Action
june 10,2011

There were four more huge E-Verify victories at the state and local level this week that will continue to pressure Congress into passing a national E-Verify bill!

Two weeks ago, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Arizona's E-Verify bill, and this week, the Court ordered the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to review its ruling that suspend Hazleton, Pennsylvania's law requiring businesses in the city to use E-Verify.

In Alabama, Gov. Bentley signed what many are calling the nation's toughest state-level immigration enforcement bill that includes a provision requiring the use of E-Verify for all employers in the state. And in Florida, Gov. Rick Scott strengthened his original E-Verify executive order by adding specific language requiring subcontractors working on state contracts use E-Verify. Finally, Yakima, Washington's city council approved a mandatory E-Verify ordinances for all employers in the city.
Three bills requiring the use of E-Verify have already been offered in Congress -- two by Democrats (Shuler and DeFazio) and one by a Republican (Carter). The three bills combined have bipartisan support from 57 Members of Congress.

With all the state level action on E-Verify, dozens of articles have popped up in local newspapers and online blogs spreading some misinformation on E-Verify. Please be careful as you read stories about E-Verify, especially on websites, blogs and other news media that you usually trust. The fact is that those who benefit from illegal immigration are spending huge sums of money to plant most of these stories to create negative impressions about E-Verify that simply aren't true.

Jeremy, our Director of the Media Standards Project, posted two blogs this week that focus on some of the misinformation. Please read these and prepare yourselves for the PR battle that will rage the next few weeks as the U.S. House of Representatives begins to move a national mandatory E-Verify bill through committees. All of these state and local E-Verify victories over the last few months and years have brought us to this cusp of finally having a big positive victory in Congress. Please help us create a Truth Brigade to make sure we don't lose this once-a-decade opportunity.
Thanks,
Chris Chmielenski
Director, Content & Activism

www.numbersusa.com

I say GET RID OF CONGRESS!
If they cannot uphold thier SWORN OATH, then they have No Place in this Govt.

Originally Posted by PatriotofPast

I say GET RID OF CONGRESS!
If they cannot uphold thier SWORN OATH, then they have No Place in this Govt.

Ditto....the states are not the problem, it's the marxist federal government which is the problem. It's almost as if this country has been hijacked by a federal government, trying to will their demands upon the states!