Obama drops rule aimed at immigrants' bosses (the "no-match" rule)

SFGate.com ^ | 10/8/09 | Bob Egelko

[NormsRevenge]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Obama administration has repealed a rule that would have threatened employers with prosecution unless they fired workers whose Social Security numbers did not match entries in a government database, ending a two-year battle in a San Francisco federal court.

Although the Department of Homeland Security formally withdrew the "no-match" rule Wednesday, the administration is supporting another program enabling employers to check workers' names against electronic records that are supposed to screen out illegal immigrants.

That program, E-Verify, is voluntary for most employers but mandatory for the 170,000 companies holding federal contracts and for their subcontractors. This week, a House-Senate conference committee voted to extend E-Verify for three years.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is challenging the scope of the program in a Maryland federal court.

"E-Verify has many of the same problems as no-match," said Chris Calabrese, legislative attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, which took part in the San Francisco lawsuit. Although employers are not threatened with prosecution under the program, he said, thousands of workers are in danger of losing their jobs based on "databases that are not terribly accurate."

But the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which supports restrictions on immigration, said the government has found that E-Verify is accurate in 99.6 percent of cases. The group criticized the House-Senate conference committee for refusing to make the program permanent.

The three-year extension is "further evidence of the Obama administration's and the congressional leadership's effort to raise a smokescreen while it dismantles all effective controls against illegal immigration," the organization said.

President George W. Bush's administration proposed the no-match rule in 2007, saying it would add teeth to a 1986 law that prohibited businesses from knowingly employing illegal immigrants.

[La Lydia]

...THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S AND THE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP'S EFFORTS TO DISMANTLE ALL EFFECTIVE CONTROLS AGAINST ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.

[Tarpon]

Hey who needs laws when we have Barrack Hussein Obama ... mmm, mmmm, mmmph

Illegals, just stealing the jobs black Americans used to have. Did you see the numbers, over 50% unemployment among blacks under 25. When will the blacks ever figure out what is going on with their ‘black and white’ racist overlords. You would think after decades they would get it by now.

You would think the NAALCP would have a cow over this?

Locally the illegals went out the door and blacks were hired as their replacements, still there.

And then we learn the AMA supports Obama-care.

Anybody smell something.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[TruthHound]

It's a madhouse. A MADHOUSE!

[SunkenCiv]

The Obama administration has repealed a rule that would have threatened employers with prosecution unless they fired workers whose Social Security numbers did not match entries in a government database, ending a two-year battle in a San Francisco federal court... the administration is supporting another program enabling employers to check workers' names against electronic records that are supposed to screen out illegal immigrants.

[lmarie373]

saw this on the Spanish news they were happy with this decision obviously. Ironically they found Joe arpaio’s defiance towards the homeland security’s decision to stop rounding illegals
illegal .:D

[Gabrial]

“...the administration is supporting another program enabling employers to check workers’ names against electronic records that are supposed to screen out illegal immigrants...”

That’s just precious. Enter the country illegally, say your name is John Smith, Tom Jones, etc., and you are home free! To h*ll with valid social security numbers...

[CodeToad]

In other words, why even bother to match numbers in the first place??? Why do I bother to even give mine??

[CodeToad]

Every American shuld offer bogus numbers then do 99 deductions on income withholding. We need to starve the federal government out.

[Candor7]

Yesterday it was the Arizona Sheriff, today it is employers. With a 10 % unemployment figure, YOU KNOW this decision is going to be popular.

[Nuc1]

I guess I should just stop filling out I-9 Forms.

[goodnesswins]

“stop filling out I-9 Forms?” How about we just stop filing INCOME TAXES!!!!

[Nuc1]

It was about illeale aliens and the fact that the last time I changesd jobs I had to fill out an I-9 form. I suspect that is still a requirement. I could be wrong.

A tax revolt is a very good idea but participation would have to be in the tens of millions to be effective. How could it be organized? Beyond that the government would probably reset everyones deductions to zero and thus take care of the issue. How about work action? Strike. If we don’t earn the money they cannot tax it. It would hurt us but it would affect their tax stream and the government couldn’t do anything about it. Perfectly legal. Beyond that the question would be does the government care? Or would they just print more money? Worth a try. So how do we set it up? Any ideas?

[goodnesswins]

I’ve suggested many times on FR that every working person should set their W-4 to nine dependents...that’s supposed to be the max you can claim that doesn’t require your company to make a report about it. Other than that...I don’t know..we are in the unique position of having my husband laid off, and having to take early retirement right now...so, because we’ve saved and have enough liquid assets we probably will pay VERY little in taxes for the next 2-3 years. If everyone could find a way to cut their income, i.e. taxes for just the next 2 years...it would help.

[AuntB]

See also from NAFBPO today:

U.S. Ambassador comments on immigration reform & more bad news!
Nafbpo foreign news report ^ | Oct. 9, 2009 | National Assn. of Former Border Patrol Agents

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2359148/posts?page=1

El Sol de Mexico (Mexico City) 10/8/09

U.S. Ambassador comments on immigration reform

Carlos Pascual, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, said that the migratory reform process in the United States is programmed for the early part of 2010. During a short visit to Tijuana, Baja California, the ambassador said that both the U.S. Senate and the House have a representative at the White House to deal with this issue. He added that the problems related to health care must first be solved before this reform may be carried out. He pointed out that first it is necessary to control the enormous health care costs, 16% of the U.S. GDP, and thereafter consider making them wider, which ties us into the issue of migration reform.

[Nuc1]

Sorry to hear about the layoff. The wingnuts will eventually figure out that the only way to grow an economy is to generate wealth. This means agriculture and manufacturing. Many FReepers are quite enamored of the global economy but it seems to me to be a process whereby the US has been looted. For example it is simply not possible to be competitive with a worker that gets paid $1-2 per day and manufactures items with equipment as good as or better than yours. Some say we will have a service economy. Perhaps in the beginning but it won't last. Over time why would any country ask the US for guidance in manufacturing when they not us are the ones doing the manufacturing. They won't. IMHO this is all designed to bring a world government into being by reducing our power world wide. The really evil thing is that our government prevents us from turning this around.

[SIDENET]

I think I'll just stop paying taxes and will flip the government the bird.

Hell, I'm just a damn "potential terrorist" (gun owner and military veteran) anyway.

[chasio649]

yep

[MinuteGal]

The Bozo administration is actually doing amnesty one small cut at a time.

Frog......pot of hot water......perfect analogy.

We're the frogs.

Leni