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  • Democrats undercut aid for U.S. workers

    02/11/2009 6:24:37 AM PST · by rellimpank · 18 replies · 769+ views
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 11 feb 09 | John Kass
    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...