Posted on 02/13/2008 7:39:30 PM PST by dennisw
ON Jan. 1, Arizona became the first state to require all em ployers to confirm workers' legal status via the federal "E-Verify" system. Having survived a federal court challenge last Thursday, the law promises to transform the immigration crisis in America. After just six weeks, Arizona's system is already working: Newspapers in the state report that illegals are self-deporting by the thousands. Apartment complexes in Phoenix and Tucson confirm that thousands of tenants have skipped town. Many are returning across the border to Mexico.
This success is proof that attrition through enforcement works. The premise is straightforward: The way to solve our illegal-immigration problem is to ratchet up enforcement while making it more difficult for employers to hire illegals.
Illegal aliens are rational people. If their chance of being able to work illegally goes down, while the chance of getting detained goes up, at some point the only sensible thing to do is go home.
E-Verify is free and easy to use. The employer simply types in the employee's name, date of birth and Social Security number (or other work-authorization number). He gets an answer back from the government in seconds.
More than 20,000 businesses nationwide were using E-Verify voluntarily before Jan. 1. Now Arizona's 145,000 businesses are obliged to join their ranks.
Illegals know that E-Verify makes it impossible for them to fabricate Social Security numbers and use fade IDs to obtain jobs. And when the jobs dry up, they leave.
But Arizona isn't the only compelling proof that attrition through enforcement works. We have another case study: the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System.
The US Justice Department implemented program in 2002-03, in the wake of 9/11. It required aliens from al Qaeda-associated countries to report to INS offices to provide fingerprints and register. The non-compliant faced stiff penalties.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
State Illinois passed a law that prohibits their businesses to use the Federal E-Verify System!
http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/programs/gc_1199120920203.shtm
The idea to pressure illegal aliens and those who abet them is gaining momentum. Rhode Island legislators on both sides of the aisle are considering passing legislation to force illegals out of the state because they are taking jobs from Americans.
This good news hasn’t stopped demagoguing politicians from still using their old “you can’t round up and deport 12 million people” nonsense. No matter how successful state efforts might be, some pandering politicians will still try to pass amnesty bills, or legalization bills that would trump the good state laws.
The SOBs have to be watched every day.
Arizona and Oklahoma are noted success stories, but I also heard Georgia had similar legislation.
Any Peach Staters here with a “how it’s working/not working” in Georgia?
not sure why no one tells the immigrants that multi national conglomerates are bringing plants to them
they can just wait at home and a new shiny plant will be build in a neighborhood’s near them
no need to travel
If immigration is a Federal issue why can States opt out of the E-verify system.
Arizona, Oklahoma, and Georgia have led the way in reducing illegal alienism.
I bet their economies improve greatly. Of course, the pro-illegal MSM will never report that....but you can bet if these states’ economies tank...it will be blamed on illegal alien legislation.
Meanwhile our Washington State legislature is considering a bill to pay unemployment compensation to illegals year round if they are unemployed off-season. Sounds to me like Washington State will singlehandedly solve the Illegal immigration problem. They’ll all )all 40-million or however many there are) come to Washington and jump on the year-round gravy train. The only reason this hasn’t passed yet are that the Democrats wanting this are afraid passing it will give the Republicans ammunition to use against them. How do so many utterly STUPID people make it into public office?
Meanwhile our Washington State legislature is considering a bill to pay unemployment compensation to illegals year round if they are unemployed off-season. Sounds to me like Washington State will singlehandedly solve the Illegal immigration problem. They’ll all )all 40-million or however many there are) come to Washington and jump on the year-round gravy train. The only reason this hasn’t passed yet are that the Democrats wanting this are afraid passing it will give the Republicans ammunition to use against them. How do so many utterly STUPID people make it into public office?
Oh yes they still do to get the free health care system superior to Mexico's; the free education system not sure if it's superior but probably.
Lastly housing, luxuries as dishwashers, air-conditioners, etc. that they can't get as easily in Ole Mexico, not to mention a sanitary system, electrical grid, wastewater and clean drinkable water that they certainly aren't getting back home.
Oh yes they still do to get the free health care system superior to Mexico's; the free education system not sure if it's superior but probably.
Lastly housing, luxuries as dishwashers, air-conditioners, etc. that they can't get as easily in Ole Mexico, not to mention a sanitary system, electrical grid, wastewater and clean drinkable water that they certainly aren't getting back home.
In our House of Representatives, there have been recent rumbling of another stab at an amnesty bill:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/02/11/resurrection-house-dems-to-bring-back-shamnesty/
Or, coming to Illinois.
They found a way here - they can find the same way back.
Anybody who hasn’t gone to www.reforminstitute.org to see what John McCain is really about and clicked on the ‘Immigration’ section to see what the Soros/Rockefeller/Ford Foundation money is pushing via politicians like McCain, well, you’ll be shocked.
Or, you already know who McCain is and you’ve gotten a headstart on despising him....
“How do so many utterly STUPID people make it into public office?”
What the heck else are they going to do?
LOl, yep, many of them have been hiding in plain sight and waving flags and demanding ‘rights’. The double-talk and lies and turned heads that surround this issue are incredible.
The first person I heard use the term self-deportation and propose that this was the answer was Michael Savage, and he was ridiculed for the idea. (I admit to picking the term up from him.) Now it’s mainstream.
We don't need no stinking new laws!
Enforce the laws we got - George, John, Hillary and Obama. Yeah, and you too Teddy, Nancy and Dinghy.
We don't need no stinking new laws!
Enforce the laws we got - George, John, Hillary and Obama. Yeah, and you too Teddy, Nancy, Dinghy and Joe!
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