Open-borders alert: White House preparing to gut E-Verify
One of the few things the Bush administration did right on immigration enforcement was to strengthen and expand the E-Verify citizenship verification system for employers.
A Senate aide tells me this afternoon that the Obama White House is preparing to gut the program.
Buzz on the Hill is that Team Obama will repeal some of the Executive Orders from the Bush Administration dealing with E-verify and so-called “No Match” Social Security number notices.
Here’s what I’m hearing:
1. In the case of companies that have federal contracts, the employer will not have to use E-verify to check the employment eligibility of his current employees, only new hires as a result of the federal contract.
a. So for example, X Lumber could have 15 illegal’s working for them right now who are illegal. If X lumber gets a federal contract they will not have to verify the employment eligibility of those 15 illegal’s. So they will receive a federal contract and our tax payer dollars will go to paying the salary of illegal workers.
2. E-verify requirements will stay in place for new hires.
a. So if X Lumber has to hire 4 more people as part of their federal contract they will be required to verify those workers.
3. DHS could also announce that it will rescind the No Match rule, which provides a safe harbor process for employers who receive a No Match letter from SSA, can follow in order to terminate the employee without repercussion. SSA “no-match” letters alert employers to the fact that they have submitted Social Security tax withholdings based on Social Security account numbers that do not match SSA records as to issued numbers and corresponding names.
The rule, which will be rescinded – proposed as a “safe harbor” for employers – steps to be taken when they receive a No Match letter from SSA. If the steps are taken for the employees who submitted suspect Social Security numbers and if the employer is later audited/investigated by DHS for hiring illegal immigrants, the employer can use the fact that he took the steps laid out in the rule as a defense to a charge of illegally employing those illegal immigrants for which the No Match letter was issued.
Businesses requested that such a process be laid out so that they were no longer subject to lawsuits.
Stay tuned and make sure your congressional reps have this on their radar screens: 202-224-3121.
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Come heck or high water, bho and team are going to see illegals have the same rights as we citizens have. The people our military are fighting now have our rights to ‘not say anything without a lawyer’. This sucks big time!
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You would think they would keep E-verify as a means to instantly identify the location of potential voters for ACORN to register.
/sarc
From what we could tell here the program worked very well. Why not leave it alone?
It has been winked at for a long time now. Here in Columbus, OH, construction co’s will take a number, and after it comes back bad, they’ll just submit another number. It is a game of non-enforcement. For many of them the law means nothing.
Looks like an easy way for Dems to buy votes. But sometimes I wonder if the only reason a few Reps didn’t do it is, I think, because they couldn’t figure out how to get it done.
Collin
http://evangelicalperspective.blogspot.com
The deadliest enemy combatants in the U.S. currently occupy the White House.
Stealing the jobs Americans used to have, how cool is that.
The get whitey president.
Illegals’ votes.
Multiple votes.
Fraudulent votes.
Miscounted votes.
Ignorant votes.
we’re hosed.
So, I get hired by a company. I have to get E-verified, but the guy sitting next to me, who speaks absolutely NO ENGLISH, doesn’t because he was already there?
Think about it Obama administration, you get stupider by the minute.
No surprise at all. Obama must have heard the latest reports that illegals have been heading home more often than not due to the lack of employment.
THe new tobacco regulations are going to hurt illegal workers who crop the tobacco. Oh, well! I’m sure Barry will give them more government help than they could ever dream of.
Dont Worry. After 4 yrs of Obama, US wont be attractive to immigrants (legal or illegal) anymore.
OT: Has Ms California been “thrown under the bus” by conservative blogosphere ? I read only maggie gallagher’s comments in her support.
This amounts to an Executive Order repealing our borders.
We’ve been hosed since last November, but yes.
Go to NumbersUSA to Fax Obama, Napolitano, and your Congressmen to let them know what you think. Its free, but you can donate if you wish.
Yeah like Bush was so much better in his support for illegals.
Can you name any republican president or presidential nominee who was opposed to the uncontrolled immigration (illegal and legal) in the last few decades.
Reagan
Michelle, any word on whether X defense contractor, or X security company with a Federal contract will be part of this obamanation?
G.W. Bush, at least to the extent of E-verify.
Can you name a Dimocrat nominee who was not for open borders.
Dem and Repub elites love immigrants. Even Reagan’s anti-illegal credentials are a bit fuzzy (amnesty and all).
Actually, that’s the reason they (the illegal aliens and their enablers) want it shut down so badly – it works!
Please call your US Representative and US Senators and let them know how you feel about it too:
202-224-3121 (Central switchboard)
Do it, you’ll be glad you did.
Both dems and repubs ignore the like illegals. Dems like their votes, repubs like the cheap labor for their corporate donors.
And when we get pro boder candidates in the primaries ( Hunter, Tancredo ) we dont give them money and votes. Instead we vote for likes of Mccain and Romney who become pro-border just in time for the primaries and forget about it for the rest of the time.
Gotta agree. Neither party appears to be on the side of the American citizen when it comes to illegal immigration. And then the Department of Homeland Insecuruty declares that people opposed to illegal immigration may be problematic.
Just another reason to be an Independent.
Amen to that. Remember couple of years ago Republican senators (I think Lott) complaining about the power of talk radio and blogosphere when we opposed their Amnesty plans. Their is not a dimes worth of difference between two parties on immigration issues
If there was another country that would be better I’d consider leaving America to the socialist One World crowd. But I can’t seem to find anywhere (maybe Sri Lanka now that they’ve figured out how to win a war) that’s any better.
Guess I’ll stay and fight to save America.
Canada’s is not e-verify. It’s verify-eh.
This isn’t so much about e-verify as it is about a line in the sand for who is going to be granted citizenship just before the next election cycle so they can vote for Obamacrats.
Presumably, the companies they work for will survive that long…
I’m not so sure Bush wouldn’t be gutting out Everify by now too.
Whole lotta back stabben been goin on an on.
No surprise here. If it hurts the country in any way, shape or form…it’s dem policy. Lax border enforcement, giving citizen rights and benefits to illegal aliens, higher spending and taxes constituting generational theft, pandering to enemies, berating allies, denigrating America on foreign soil, letting terrorists loose, giving terrorists civil rights, nationalizing entire private business sectors, appointing race warriors to the Supreme Court, disgracing the CIA, embracing baby killers, asking for the release of photos that will place our troops in more harm’s way etc etc etc etc etc…
If it harms America, its in the dem platform.
Our options are getting slimmer by the day…now what are we left with in order to save our country?
I don’t mean to disparage your ambition and patriotism, but just how much good do you honestly think it does to call or email Wyden, Merkley and your rep. assuming you don’t live Walden district?
Don’t misunderstand, I phone and write ‘em all the same, but I do wonder every time, “does it really matter to these deep blue dyed representatives?” that i contact them? No, it doesn’t…but I’ll keep doing it just in case they wake up one day.
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Giving all the “undocumented immigrants” (aka ILLEGAL ALIENS) amnesty isn’t such a bad idea.
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When they are “legal” then the new U.S.S.A. can start screwing them over like they do us “whitey” citizens. And the Kalifornia universities can start charging them the triple out of state tuition costs also!
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Ditto for the soon to be released “man made disaster” enablers (formerly known as TERRORISTS). Make them citizens and start screwing them over also.
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It’s an ill wind that blows no good!
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John Bibb
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I seriously doubt that Soetoro/Obama could pass an e-Verify verification.
Do the people who think the “birthers” are nuts (that includes you, Michelle) realize that the only document produced by the Obama campaign was:
1) Not released directly from the State of Hawaii. (It first appeared online at Daily Kos, and then first appeared in hardcopy at the Obama Campaign headquarters).
2) Not declared authentic by the State of Hawaii.
3) Only shown to a small audience that is politically-connected to Obama (Annenberg Political “Fact Check”) who lied by:
4) Declared a forgery by document experts.
5) Very similar to the clearly forged COLB for “Haye I.B Ahphorgerie“.
If Soetoro/Obama has nothing to hide, let’s put him through e-Verify.
You’d agree to that, Michelle, wouldn’t you?
I’ve utilized the faxes provided at NumbersUSA to send strongly worded protests to Obama, Napolitano, my senators, and my 7th District Rep., John Linder. Rep. Linder, btw, is my only representative who always supports the interests and opinions of the people. We can’t really count on our RINO senators.
Boy, obama is going gangbusters on pushing America into the gutter, ain’t he? We’ll be a third world nation all too soon.
Thanks obama voters!
Could a prospective employee bypass the I9 Form and e-Verify, and just use a newpaper birth announcement as proof of citizenship?
No!
So, if we wouldn’t accept that for a minimum-wage job, why would we accept that for the most important job in our government?
The law is the law.
ALL new employees (including the President of the United States) are required to prove their citizenship.
Obama produced a forged document and a newspaper clipping, and due dilligence was not performed before allowing him to take office.
Now, we are suffering the consequences.
By the way, McCain is not a “Natural Born Citizen”, either. McCain was not born on the military base in Panama. His Birth Certificate shows that he was born in Colon Hospital, in the city of Colon, Panama.
McCain is not Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President, and a mere “Resolution” by Congress to declare him eligible cannot do so. You can’t change the Constitution with a mere “Resolution”.
“We the People” were had in this election. Neither Obama nor McCain were eligible to hold the office, and both were on the George Soros dole.
On June 12th, 2009 at 2:11 am, ErinF said:
So the ones already using SSN’s will get to keep their job. The problem is, if someone has been using your SSN for employment and it is time for you to collect, the SSA can claim fraud and not pay you your entitlements. Getting that mess fixed usually requires lawyers who will make a fortune when you are done, whether or not you win the case. The SSA allows you to get statements from them about what you have paid in and your benefits. I had to do that over 10 years ago because of some compromised SSN’s and mine was a possibility. I still get a statement every year, i thought it was just for that year, but i keep getting them. I suggest everyone do that, that way you can see if someone is using your # in a city you don’t live close to and you can dispute it. Don’t wait until it is time to get your benefits and have to fight them for 5 years.
I didn’t know where to post this Utube paradoy link but it’s pretty funny – “Obama Man” (to the song “Candyman”))
“Who can take tomorrow? … and spend it all today?”
You meant, he couldn’t IF he did not have a million dollars to spend on legal services to get around it? … the amount he has allegedly spent to keep a $25 BC a secret.
If our Supreme Court believes that it is somehow the role of Congress to verify that an incoming POTUS is a “natural citizen” then – WHY ARE THEY SWORN IN BY THE CHIEF JUSTICE?