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The Senate Stimulus bill currently being considered contains about $104 billion in new government funding for construction projects with the goal of creating jobs for millions of unemployed Americans. Unlike the House version, there is no provision in the bill to bar illegal immigrants from getting these taxpayer-funded jobs. This could result in several [...]
The number of employers using E-Verify voluntarily has grown from 1,533 employers in 2005 (when it was made available to employers nationwide to 85,816 employers representing more than 446,000 worksites by September 2008. On January 8, 2009, USCIS announced that more than 100,000 employers had signed up to use E-Verify.
Gwinnett County recently announced that it would comply with a 15-month-old state law that requires it to verify the citizenship status of applicants for a new business license or renewal. But the county’s strict interpretation of the law creates a loophole large enough for an illegal alien to crawl through.
Commission Chairman Charles Bannister knows this. [...]
E-Verify is the most effective tool available to state and local governments to protect their communities from the negative impact of illegal immigration. And that’s exactly why one Democrat U.S. Senator is using Senate rules to prevent E-Verify from being re-authorized unless more “green cards” are approved:
Consider that the point of E-Verify is to protect [...]
In June, it was first revealed at this site that Gwinnett County was in violation of the “Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act” by failing to qualify applicants for business licenses through federal databases. In response to a flurry of emails from constituents and coverage in the local media, Commission Chairman Charles Bannister and County [...]
A good program is apparently getting much better.
The E-Verify program is well on its way to fixing a 20-year-old problem of determining legal employment eligibility in a manner employers can support. Arguably E-Verify is the most successful programmatic upgrade to U.S. interior border systems, assisting employers in abiding by the law and weeding out those [...]
