Smith Pushes to Mandate Use of E-Verify Nationwide
Employers who rely solely on the documents their workers provide to ensure they are legally qualified to work in the United States may be in for a shake-up if U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith gets his way.
The San Antonio Republican who is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, took his efforts to require nationwide use of the electronic employment verification program, known as E-Verify, before his committee today. The bill, HR 2885, also called the “Legal Workforce Act,” would replace the current system that relies on the paper-based I-9 employment form, which he calls obsolete.
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Turner Wright via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This is what we have needed for a very long time! I'm just disappointed the Democrats didn't propose it first!
Gigi ATexaslady via Texas Tribune on Facebook
now if immigration and Social Security both input latest new immigrants, that will help a lot. Also those on work visas or college...they have to have a SS# also....
Dale Kramer via Texas Tribune on Facebook
try a passport
Tim Tukaram Spotswood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It's about time! We are so far behind the rest of the world in border security it just a joke.
Eliud Aranda via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Isn't this big government putting restrictions on businesses?
Tim Tukaram Spotswood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Controlling immigration is part of the governments job. I don't of very many countries you can work without a job visa of some kind.
Brittanicus
This week—WILL CHANGE AMERICAS FUTURE, FOR JOBS AND OUR ECONOMY, BY CUTTING OUT THE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS THAT’S PANDERED TO THE ILLEGAL ALIEN OCCUPATION. IN HIS JOBS SPEECH PRESIDENT OBAMA EMPHASIZED CONSTRUCTION WORK TOBE CARRIED OUT? HOW MANY ILLEGAL CHEAP LABOR ALIENS WILL BE HIRED BY DIRTY CONTRACTORS, IF MANDATORY E-VERIFY IS NOT MADE THE LAW OF THE LAND?
THIS IS NOTHING TO DO WITH A PERSONS RACE, ITS STRICTLY ABOUT ECONOMIC ILLEGAL ALIENS, COSTS AND NOTHING TO DO WITH TRUE LAWFUL IMMIGRANTS.
Americans have the ability in their vote to change America forever, but we must scrutinize results in the 2012 election cycle for a President. Over and over again Democrats with Liberal ties have been caught numerous times, using such radical groups such as Acorn to steal political races with illegal alien registrations. Voter fraud is here to stay, unless the federal government makes it impossible to defraud citizen voters of their inherent rights, by demanding the use of a National ID card that could be used for many other purposes. The old Social Security number has been badly compromised, as we have seen with a yearly tally of hundreds of thousands of Americans fighting to save their credit, as its been procured by foreign nationals to steal jobs, as well as peoples good credit, then using it for nefarious purposes.
The door has finally opened for a new day, as members of Congress recognize their own jobs are on the table and after all no more than public servants. Some of course don’t see it that way in either party? But the big news is, we can start vacating jobs from illegal aliens, if Americans put in the effort to phone the Membership on U.S. House Judiciary Committee to Pass Lamar Smith's E-Verify Bill. The 'Markup' Starts Today On this Bill to Fire Illegal-Alien Workers and return Millions of Americans Back to Work. We need the phones ringing off the hook to ensure that the Judiciary Members know there is a lot of public interest in and support of a bill to make it virtually impossible for illegal aliens to hold payroll jobs.
Not all candidates for President are—TRUE BELIEVERS—IN THE TEA PARTY PHILOSOPHY? Rick Perry is a GOP establishment Icon, with Mitt Romney on his heels. Read the focused principles of The Tea Party to understand that are strongly against encroaching government in our lives and lower taxes. The whole tax code is too complicated and needs to be dumped in the trash, and a simpler taxation method as with Herman Cain or Paul Ryan’s understanding of the Tax code mess. Rep. Michele Bachmann, Chairman of the millions in the Tea Party, has the best illegal immigration record of anyone. The lady like Sheriff Joe Arpaio has instinctively worked to eradicate the invaders from other nations. Cut like gangrene from a wound all the unethical discounts for energy companies, financial institutions, mega agricultural industries and everybody else who gets billions of dollars in rebates. We need a Fair Tax System, not a biased one? Investigate the untruths of the extremist in our midst at NumbersUSA, Judicial Watch and American Patrol.
The first votes on amendments may happen today. Then, the committee will resume debate and votes on dozens more amendments next week.
The open-borders organizations sponsored by the Soros, Carnegie and Ford Foundations are waging an all-out grassroots phone campaign to gut or kill Lamar Smith's E-Verify bill. Don't let any Member of the Judiciary Committee hear more phone calls in favor of illegal-alien hiring than the phone calls from you supporting Lamar Smith's bill.
Roy Beck, President of the NumbersUSA says it will do for your State:
THIS IS WHAT REP. LAMAR SMITH'S BILL WOULD DO FOR YOUR STATE
MAKE SURE THIS TREMENDOUS BILL MOVES TO THE FLOOR OF THE U.S. HOUSE -- CONTACT YOUR JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBER BEFORE THE COMMITTEE VOTE
Friends, Go to NumbersUSA's website that and shows you the 30 ways that Chairman Lamar Smith's H.R. 2885 would ensure that only legal workers get payroll jobs in your state.
In the history of the United States, there never has been a piece of legislation going through committee that would do so much to turn off the jobs magnet for illegal immigration and protect jobs for American workers.
Now, please does your part to help get this bill through committee in as close to its present form as possible?
Your state is represented on the Judiciary Committee and can be reached through the Washington Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
ACTION: Please PHONE at the number above and urge rapid and clean passage of H.R. 2885 in the Judiciary Committee markup.
If you are a constituent in the District of a Member of the Judiciary Committee you will find a fax to send at:
https://www.numbersusa.com/faxes?ID=13466
Among talking points are these:
• Everybody talks about putting Americans back to work--but few do anything. The Judiciary Committee can start putting hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans back to work this year for virtually no cost by passing H.R. 2885.
• Make H.R. 2885 the first jobs bill out of Congress this fall. Vote for the Legal Workforce Act in committee.
• Pass H.R. 2885 in the Judiciary Committee and make sure that no veteran, no citizen and no legal immigrant is unemployed because an outlaw business is able to hire an illegal alien.
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• H.R. 2885 is legislation carefully crafted to get through the House and Senate and get the President's signature. It is not about grandstanding but about changing the law THIS FALL and starting to put millions of unemployed Americans back to work over the next three years.
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• The argument about what to do with 11 million illegal aliens can be done later. For now, though, let's make sure that none of them is taking a job from an American citizen or legal immigrant. Pass H.R. 2885.
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• H.R. 2885 is the most powerful bill ever to be considered in Congressional committee in terms of turning off the jobs magnet for illegal immigration and protecting jobs for American workers. It is a beautiful pro-American-worker piece of legislation as is. Please pass it in the Judiciary Committee.
What we need are hundreds of calls to each Member of the committee to make sure they know that lots of their constituents are watching and that this bill is really, really important to them. Don't assume that any of them are immune to trying to make changes in the bill that will endanger its eventual passage into law or seriously weaken it.
You know how incredibly hard it is to approve enforcements. It took four years of trying before you finally succeeded this year. And business groups still prevented you from extending E-Verify to the private sector. Let's take care of most of it in one swoop with this federal bill.
This is correctly sanctioned by the Tea PARTY membership, to stop jobs from being stolen by unlawful migrants and immigrants. You can do your part today and end this madness for good. There are powerful forces at work, with corporate lobbyists, churches and faith groups, Unions and radical minority groups, who see a loss of cheap labor, revenues generated and the use of these illegal individuals to steal elections through fraudulent means. There is much more to learn of how hard-liner liberals Democrats and Republican elitists politicians who are only interested in their own agenda and not the rights of the American people’s sovereignty.
They have undermined the US Constitution, through activist judges interpreting the law from the bench and forcing upon us the unpalatable taste of “Political Correctness.” They have even eroded individual states rights, instead of following the laws set down by corrupt legislators. The Tea Party leadership will return each states alienable right, including the rights of each state to govern who crosses the state border line. The Tea Party will enact laws so no more mass immigration amnesties; No more Sanctuary policies, no Dream acts and nothing that encourages foreign nations to storm our nation’s borders or arrive from other countries.
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Mark Pulliam via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hooray for Rep. Smith. Mandatory use of E-Verify would eliminate the employment magnet for illegal aliens. Big Business (including the WSJ) opposes to maintain access to cheap labor. This is the single most effective measure to control illegal immigration.
Brittanicus
THE ONLY JOB LOSE WILL BE THE 8.5 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO ARE SQUATTING HERE. AND PAY ATTENTION IF YOU ARE RED FLAGGED ON THE HIRING COMPUTER, YOU CAN RESOLVE THE PROBLEM BY GOING TO YOU NEAREST SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICE WITHIN 8 DAYS. OF COURSE THE OPEN BORDER ZEALOT’S WILL REMAIN QUIET ON THIS EASY AND SIMPLE IMPASSE.
Your state is represented on the Judiciary Committee and can be reached through the Washington Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to make E-Verify a mandatory law.
Tim Tukaram Spotswood via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I blame the Republicans... it all started when Lincoln got rid of a source of cheap labor...
David Spratt
Sheila Jackson says,"It is prone to not doing the job it should be doing," The same thing could be said about her. With black and hispanic unemployment at record high levels you would think a program that would improve those numbers would appeal to her. These are the people , her constituants, that are most affected by the high numbers of illegal immigrants. I would encourage everyone to call her and enlighten her. The other members from Texas on the Judiciary comittee are : Louie Gohmert 202-225-3035,,,,,,,,Sheila jackson Lee 202-225-3816,,,,,,Ted Poe 202-225-6565,,,,,,,Lamar Smith 202-225-4236,,,,, House Judiciary comittee ph. 202 - 225- 3951
Brittanicus
PASS MANDATORY E-VERIFY.
The American worker, families and communities face a common problem today. It’s estimated between 13 and 20 million plus currently has settled and work in our nation unlawfully. The majorities are--ECONOMIC--and don't pay local, state, Federal taxes and yet demand privileges meant for US citizens and legal residents, placing a massive yoke around government welfare and bleed this recessions sources of revenue. American’s can no longer pay to subsidize the illegal immigrants, with the taxpayer’s $113 Billion dollars and-up annually. Let alone 2.5 Trillion dollars to process the government estimated 11.5 million aliens that live here. (Heritage foundation & Pew Hispanic Research Center)
These illegal offenders, who come here, leave no paper trail of foreign criminal convictions. Most have families, many legal that hide their relations in plain sight. They bring their children or birth them here attending public schools by law, adding to overcrowded classrooms and diverting scarce education money. Time is not on America’s side, as the borders remain porous and hundreds of miles of ancient barbed wire fences, open lake areas, rivers--which the US Agents thinly roam trying to courageously stop drug cartels, criminal cargo and the endless tracks of foreign nationals.
I don't think any American is opposed to legal immigration, As all of us, one time or the other came across the Atlantic or crossed borders. But illegal immigrant invaders are something entirely wrong, that treads on our "rule of law" and the prime directives of the U.S. Constitution. America is a nation of laws, which we abide by. Illegal aliens want all the rights of the legal population, but scorn our laws and then have the audacity to demonstrate in our streets. This is just not right, with most ignoring our people’s common bond to respect our laws. They do neither! Unlike the 19th century immigrants they come here expecting to be monetary taken care of, wish not to learn our language or to assimilate into American society.
However, the open border tyranny has a different agenda. The Obama government has used executive directives, making it possible for illegal aliens to settle in this nation. Last month President Obama issued an executive order to bypass the Congress, establishing new ICE priorities relating to deportations. This event has led an easier path for illegal nationals to remain in this country, being able to apply for a work permit. Even though the American public and refusal of Congress to approve of any new amnesty, the administration has created a back door entry for these people.
Many honest lawmakers signed a letter to President Obama and executive members of the staff, protesting this action. In other words this Administration has stonewalled the Congress, which is the only avenue that an amnesty may be passed into law.
A mandatory E-Verify vote is coming up for a vote this week and every American is frustrated and irate about Obama's executive order should contact his representative in Washington insisting they pass Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas "The Legal Workforce Act" (H.R. 2885). This is about saving jobs for working Americans, being stolen by illegal alien labor.
In her opening statement on yesterday, Rep. Linda Sanchez described E-Verify as broken.
"The system is riddled with errors and doesn't work. It doesn't flag the workers it's supposed to flag, and it snags too many citizens and legal workers in its net. The job market is tough enough. It makes no sense for Congress to pass a law that makes it more difficult for legal workers to find work."
Why are the pro-amnesty groups so scared of Chairman Smith's bill? Because they know it would take away any leverage they have for passing a mass amnesty, and more importantly, it would successfully remove illegal aliens from the workforce.
Further there is the HALT Act (Hinder the Administration's Legalization Temptation) bill. This bill would prevent USCIS (United States Customs and Immigration Services) and ICE from granting parole for illegal aliens who are convicted of a crime and other actions, including reversing the administration’s recent executive directive authorizing the cancellation of the removal of illegal aliens from our country. The simple explanation of the "HALT" act is to stop the present government from circumventing the Congress on deportation and other immigration laws, so ICE can carry out their duties.
If the people of America wish to change the 1986 Immigration Control and Reform Act, so be it--with their votes. But the laws were regulated to place detainers on illegal aliens and then deport them, for violating the United States laws. Only President Obama has ignored Congress and changed our laws by fiat. Showing complete indifference to our laws and living inside state borders, has gone too far. Even worse are the oaths our president, his men and women sworn to protect us from enemies domestic and foreign have chosen to ignore the American people’s voices.
Before Obama and back three decades, the US government has overreached their empowerment, as we have witnessed in courts as activist judges have followed their own agendas. Immigration is no longer a lesser of issues, as it has influenced both the jobs of thousands of US workers and this economy. The "HALT" act, E-Verify, 287 G and "Secure Communities” are the sane way, for the illegal aliens to begin an exodus from this country. Another sure system is for the government to issue every American with an official ID. These policing laws would eventually make it near impossible, for illegal aliens to stay here, without fear of detection.
As Americans you should expect nothing more or less, from any politician. If the Liberals, Democrats or even the Republicans will not enforce Immigration laws, it’s for sure TEA PARTY leaders will.
If you suspect that competition is using an illegal workforce, contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division at 1-866-DHS-2ICE (866-347-2423).According to one of our members who spoke with an ICE agent, "the mere 'suspicion' that a company's employees are illegal aliens is all that is necessary to make the call to commence an investigation." He added, "Law enforcement organizations cannot, and do not, expect the public to be experts in determining whether someone is committing a crime, so they provide a safe harbor approach to informing." Whistle Blowers are very welcome who see irregularities at their workplace. Much evidence is available at NumbersUSA, less available news stories at American Patrol and the corruption spawned in our government at Judicial Watch. Otherwise call your local Representative, insisting they vote for Rep. Lamar Smith’s Judiciary Committee, who can be reached through the Washington Switchboard at 202-224-3121 to make E-Verify a mandatory law for work, to save US jobs from illegal alien competition.
TELL YOUR SENATOR, THEY MIGHT HAVE THE POWER—BUT YOU HAVE THE VOTE? YOU MIGHT ALSO ASK THEM, WHY ILLEGAL ENTRY IS NOT A FELONY?
You are far from being a lone voice on the issue of illegal immigration. The TEA PARTY is the massive impetus that will resolve this problem that is feeding off the US taxpayer. The TEA PARTY is just average Americans, out to protect their interests, unlike the current government who are out to pacify illegal foreigners. The governments seem to condone illegal activities, as did the previous administration as a reward for business owners. The TEA PARTY will enforce the 1986 Immigration law, with no Path to Citizenship, No Amnesty, No Dream Act and no Sanctuary city or State policies. The front door or you will be deported or imprisoned.
ATTN: CALL YOU SENATOR AND HOUSE CONGRESSMAN, TO DUMP THE PRESENT UNFAIR TAX CODE AND PLUG ALL THE LOOPHOLES FOR THE RICH, BIG OIL AND INSIST EVERYBODY PAYS. NO EXCEPTIONS!
David Spratt
The bill passed the House Judiciary committee in markup. Next stop the floor. The preemption amendment has been defeated . The chamber and business seems to be on board after many years of opposition , but still there are those seeking their exceptions and special considerations. We must all continue to fight for a "pure" bill that will protect ALL Americans. Consider your fellow countrymen and American interests first. After we have regained our economy and security then you may consider the interests of others around the world. Continue to call and let our representatives know WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN ! This will benefit all Americans no matter what political party you identify with.