Senator Kay Hagan, an illegal's best friend

So here we are in the midst of a global recession. Nationwide unemployment as of this writing sits at 8.1%, while North Carolina’s unemployent is a whopping 9.7%. That’s the sixth-highest rate of unemployment in the country, and the one month increase of 1.6% between December and January is (along with Oregon and South Carolina) the highest in the country.

It would be expected then that our elected officials would be doing anything and everything they could to protect and preserve North Carolina jobs. One very obvious way to do this would be to ensure that employers hire ONLY those of us who are in the United States legally. A no-brainer, right?

Yesterday, the US senate defeated an amendment to the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations bill (H.R. 1105) that would have provided a long-term extension of the E-verify program through 2014. Among those voting to table (kill) the amendment was our very own Senator Kay Hagan.

E-Verify, for those who aren’t familiar with it, is a highly accurate internet-based system that provides an automated link to federal databases to help employers determine employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their Social Security numbers.

E-verify is authorized in the omnibus bill, though only through September of this year after which it is expected to be used as a bargaining chip by congressional democrats in their quest for a new mass amnesty bill. A long-term extension of E-verify would deny democrats this bargaining tool, and well….we can’t have that, can we?

A reasonable person would see the long-term extension of  E-verify as a good thing for obvious reasons, as would any elected official who gave even the slightest consideration the the well-being of the good people of their state; those who work hard, pay their taxes, follow and respect the law, and generally try to do the right thing .

But not our Kay Hagan. Predictably, she cast her vote in favor of the illegal aliens who are taking our jobs and the  employers who hire them, and against the people of North Carolina – who, incidentally, pay her salary and were foolish enough to put her in office in the first place.

Thanks for nothing, Kay. 2014 can’t get here soon enough.

-Cnation