Posted on 07/08/2009 11:39:08 PM PDT by Red Steel
President Obama will abandon a controversial immigration crackdown, sought by his predecessor, to pressure U.S. companies to fire 9 million workers with suspect Social Security numbers, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced yesterday.
Instead, Obama will mandate that federal contractors confirm the identities of 4 million workers against federal databases beginning in September, pushing ahead under pressure from Senate Republicans with another long-stalled Bush administration initiative.
Napolitano said her department will rescind a 2007 rule, tied up in federal court, that would have sent Social Security "no-match" letters to 140,000 U.S. employers. The notices were to warn companies to resolve discrepancies or fire suspect workers within 90 days, or face criminal penalties.
Instead, she said, the Department of Homeland Security will take a "more modern and effective" approach, ordering an estimated 170,000 federal contractors to confirm employees' work documents against E-Verify, until now a voluntary electronic government system for companies to check new hires' immigration and Social Security data.
Combined with a renewed emphasis by the DHS on targeting companies that hire illegal immigrants with civil fines and audits instead of high-profile raids, the moves mark the clearest sign yet of Obama's efforts to chart a middle course on immigration enforcement, analysts said.
The administration's announcement appeared aimed at satisfying law-and-order conservatives on Capitol Hill, where Senate Republicans successfully amended Homeland Security's $43 billion 2010 budget yesterday to extend E-Verify to federal contractors and to expand construction of fencing on the U.S.-Mexico border.
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And if you don’t think they’ll kill us to shut us up, think again. But then they have imported radical muslim and Mexican narco terrorists to do that for them for now, haven’t they?
They sure have daily you hear reports of Americans dying at the hands of illegal aliens.
Look through this site there are report after report!
http://www.americanpatrol.com/
“Chief Ross convinced his ‘public’ that the real leaders who cared about them were their enemy...like Bush and his ilk are doing to Tancredo, Palin, Hunter.....”
My favorite 3, aside from my Sheriff, Joe Arpaio.
“Tancredo, Palin, Hunter.....”....My favorite 3, aside from my Sheriff, Joe Arpaio.”
Precisely why they are denigrating and marginalizing them.
Jim DeMint BUMP
Marxist anarchy seems to trump law and order folk these days.
Wake Up America!!
There is a strong hint of tyranny in the air!!
Be Ever Vigilant!!
amen
btw, IM
could i be added to that list?
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We do weekday a.m. updates of most recent immigration threads, plus updates during the course of the day, when applicable.
bcsco
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