Posted on 02/12/2009 8:37:43 AM PST by ckilmer
Stimulus Conference Committee Strips E-Verify Protections for American Workers
Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 9:36 PM
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) issued a press release tonight decrying the removal of House-passed E-Verify worker protections from the conference committee report, which could be voted on as early as tomorrow. See Roy Beck's blog for more commentary on this injustice.
The conference committee stripped a provision he authored, which would have re-authorized E-Verify for five years, and one sponsored by Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), which would have required E-Verify use by stimulus-fund recipients. Rep. Calvert notes that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) were responsible for these anti-American worker actions. He issued the following release: Rep. Ken Calvert
Rep. Ken Calvert
REP. CALVERT: BILLIONS OF AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS TO CREATE JOBS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS? WASHINGTON, D.C. February 11, 2009 – Congressman Ken Calvert (R-CA) issued the following statement in response to news that the E-Verify provisions in the stimulus bill were not included in the final package. The two provisions, one to reauthorize the current voluntary E-Verify program which expires March 6, 2009 offered by Rep. Calvert and one requiring any entity receiving stimulus funds to participate in E-Verify offered by Rep. Kingston (R-GA), were unanimously accepted by both Republicans and Democrats in the House Appropriations mark up of the bill.
"Tonight, behind closed doors with no input from House Republicans, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Reid crafted the so-called compromise on the stimulus bill. What we now know is that while billions of American taxpayer dollars are going to be spent, there is no assurance that the jobs created will go to American workers. The two amendments that had been accepted by the House Appropriations Committee were stripped without discussion or debate.
"The American people have repeatedly voiced their support for employment verification and yet we find that once again special interests win out. The one candle in the darkness of this disastrous bill was the reauthorization and requirements to use E-Verify. Now all we are left is a bill that places illegal immigrant interests above those of hard working American families and leaves the bill at the foot of future generations."
Lol. Is anyone surprised by this? To all of you middle class folks who voted for change, just how is that change working for you now?
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Andrew Dice Clay had it right when he said there should be a sign in every airport, rail and bus station, “No speak English? Get the F**K out!!!!
Wow is this what's called 100% trasparancy? Pelosi and Reid suck swamp water...
Don’t worry. They won’t be illegal aliens for long—they’ll be new voters!
On Dec. 14, 2007 I proudly became a U.S. Citizen, after being a Legal Permanent Resident for many years. I had gladly gone through all the hoops & hurdles, Citizenship Test, and paid the $400 fee. I was severed from my job July 8, 2008 and I am still unemployed. The prospect of ILLEGAL ALIENS possibly benefiting from jobs created by the Stimulus Bill TOTALLY DISGUSTS me!!! The ONLY people who should get these jobs are those who are LEGALLY authorized to work in the U.S. Period.
and this doesn’t even include all the new opportunities for illegals through ACORN.
“Illegals” is such a nasty moniker. Let’s call them amnesty challenged citizens instead.
Each month at least 100,000 completely LEGAL workers enter the American workforce as new citizens or as resident aliens or with temporary work visas.
The total in 2007 was almost 1.5 million brand new legal workers.
let’s support everify! refuse to vote for them if they don’t
New voters?? You’ve got it all wrong. Most of them have been voting (illegally) for years.
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