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Democrats undercut aid for U.S. workers
Chicago Tribune ^ | 11 feb 09 | John Kass

Posted on 02/11/2009 6:24:37 AM PST by rellimpank

With all the hoopla over greasy pork being stuffed into President Barack Obama's near trillion-dollar spending bill, it's what is being cut out that's receiving too little attention.

And once Americans realize it, they won't be happy.

What's been quietly stripped is a provision that would have required any businesses receiving federal stimulus cash to use an easy computer program called E-Verify to make sure that the jobs they generate go to American citizens or documented foreign workers, not illegal immigrants.

Democrats in the House voted for the E-Verify component. But when the great porkulus package reached the Senate, Democrats there dropped it.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; cheaplaborstimulus; demcrats; immigration; jobs; stimulusbill

1 posted on 02/11/2009 6:24:37 AM PST by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

I can only imagine the reaction of the populace. They might even look way from Ameerican Idol for a few seconds.


2 posted on 02/11/2009 6:30:14 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: rellimpank

Can’t forget the illegals in Porkulus; they voted for Obama too.


3 posted on 02/11/2009 6:32:58 AM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: rellimpank

This turdburger of a “Stimulus” gets worse by the hour.


4 posted on 02/11/2009 6:33:26 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: rellimpank
near trillion-dollar spending bill

It is a trillion. Add in the interest and it is a trillion. Just say it. It is like going to the store and buying something for .99 cents it will be over a buck after taxes. Same thing, so just say it.

5 posted on 02/11/2009 6:44:10 AM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. - One of General Abram's men)
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To: rellimpank

Can’t blame liberal democrat and republican Senators for rewarding their voters. I just hope ACORN distributes the hard-earned US taxpayer money so we can be sure it stimulates the Mexican economy.


6 posted on 02/11/2009 7:01:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: rellimpank

Killing the Golden Goose

7 posted on 02/11/2009 7:09:15 AM PST by paulycy (BEWARE the LIBERAL/MEDIA Complex)
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To: rellimpank

The E-Verify program expires on March 6. If we lose this tool, you can kiss this country good-bye. Jobs are the principal reason why illegals come here. The stimulus package will trigger a big uptick in the number of illegals and the lack of e-verify will just remove the remaining obstacle to employment and you know Obama and DHS will not crack down on employers. Watch US taxpayer money being siphoned off to their home countries.


8 posted on 02/11/2009 7:27:21 AM PST by kabar
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To: rellimpank

Let’s see, include the retarded “buy American” provision that could ignite a trade war but don’t include a provision to help enforce the immigration laws we currently have on the books?

Smart guys, those Democrats.


9 posted on 02/11/2009 7:28:37 AM PST by Arguendo
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To: rellimpank

What’s the big deal? Obama turned the E-Verify feature off when accepting campaign donations, so he could ILLEGALLY receive money from “the citizens of the world”. Have you heard anymore about this?????

Just another nail in the coffin.


10 posted on 02/11/2009 7:39:18 AM PST by this is my country
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To: this is my country; penelopesire; BulletBobCo; seekthetruth; Kevmo; gunnyg; ...

~~**USE IN YOUR CALLS .. E verify dropped (by Dims in the dark of night ..permits illegal immigrants benefits) ..... PING!

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“E-Verify, offered free to all employers since 2004 as a way to combat illegal Immigration, allows employers to determine the legal work status of potential employees by searching their names and Social Security numbers along with other databases.

It’s cheap to operate, and more than 96 percent of job applicants are cleared by the program within minutes. This makes it almost impossible for employers to skirt the system and hire cheap, illegal labor.

But the House Democrats approved it and Senate Democrats peeled it away, a version of the old political con game played out in Washington to trick the suckers back home.”


11 posted on 02/11/2009 9:15:14 AM PST by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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~~PING!


12 posted on 02/11/2009 9:19:09 AM PST by STARWISE ( They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter))
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To: STARWISE

The influx of aliens is going to increase from Mexico. From this report this morning, it’s already starting.

That’s 60,000 apprehended in 4 months in only one Sector. They figure 1 apprehended for every 4 that get through.

Group of 77 busted at the border west of Douglas

Feb. 10, 2009
U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a group of 77 undocumented immigrants Saturday evening, as they crossed the border from Mexico.

Camera operators first spotted the group as they approached the fence west of Douglas.

All 77 are Mexican nationals.

Border Patrol agents say a smuggler had instructed the group to rush the border all at once, in an effort to overwhelm agents.

During the last four months, agents in the Tucson Sector have arrested more than 60,000 undocumented immigrants.
http://www.abc15.com/content/news/centralsouthernarizona/story/Group-of-77-busted-at-the-border-west-of-Douglas/7GTB8ZHPV0e_yiLDNKK1SQ.cspx


13 posted on 02/11/2009 9:24:10 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: STARWISE
Pandering to one of the biggest groups of their voter base: Illegal Insurgent Criminal Colonist Invaders.

Those and their Plantation of welfare voters and Present Obama’s illegal ACORN thugs pretty much assures them of perpetual power.

Only the GOP and the American people can change this.

The GOP seems to love the illegal vote also, but they just don't get that they will always vote for their benefactor of free money, the liberals and democrats.

14 posted on 02/11/2009 10:06:02 AM PST by Syncro (Ti Ming -- Use Librally)
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15 posted on 02/11/2009 4:07:02 PM PST by Cindy
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To: rellimpank

They take out something like this that makes sense to keep, but they keep in the funding for extreme left activists groups. Where is accountability?


16 posted on 02/11/2009 5:17:23 PM PST by virgil
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Ping!


17 posted on 02/13/2009 10:14:32 PM PST by HiJinx (~ Support Our Troops ~ www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil ~)
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To: virgil; All

There is no accountability with a President who believes only the Government can dig America out of its problems. This human parasite made his career on sucking off the taxpayers’ collective teat so knows nothing else.

While I’d like to say the majority of idiots who voted him in deserve what he’s bringing I can’t while you, I and other thinking conservatives are stuck on the same ship.

The E-Verify program has come a long way to insure illegal aliens don’t get jobs that Americans need more than ever. Please call your representatives about this immediately. I was amused by a young man saying he couldn’t relate his opinion, venom dripping from his voice. He knows his future is screwed if the Democrats get their way. All of us are.

If you don’t have their numbers FAIRUSA has them. This is critical.


18 posted on 02/14/2009 2:10:15 AM PST by NewRomeTacitus
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To: rellimpank

BUMP


19 posted on 02/15/2009 6:25:39 AM PST by Dante3
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