Support American Jobs — Call Your Senators NOW And Urge Them to Support the Grassley Amendment!
Yesterday, true immigration reformers won two crucial legislative victories!
During debate on the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill, the U.S. Senate adopted two crucial amendments. The first amendment, offered by Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), requires DHS to complete all 700 miles of the border fence by the end of 2010 so that it will not just stop illegal alien vehicle traffic but also pedestrian traffic. The second amendment, offered by Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), will protect American jobs by making E-Verify, the program that allows employers to ensure that they hire legal American workers, permanent. The Sessions Amendment also requires employers who do business with the federal government to use the program.
E-Verify is a great tool for America’s employers. While the Sessions Amendment is a great victory for people who want to protect American jobs, there is another amendment, offered by Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), that the Senate may consider today that would build on yesterday’s victory.
E-Verify only allows employers to check the work authorization status of new hires but not current employees. Illegal aliens who currently hold jobs they never should have had can continue in those jobs because their employer, who may have unknowingly hired that illegal alien in the past, cannot use E-Verify today to ensure that they employ only legal workers. Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) has offered an amendment that would, for the first time, allow employers to use E-Verify to check work eligibility for all their employees — not just new hires.
With unemployment now at a 25-year high, the Grassley Amendment would act as a true stimulus plan for unemployed Americans! If an employer discovers illegal aliens on his payroll, that employer can free up jobs for Americans who are out of work!
Unfortunately, FAIR has learned that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) may attempt to block the Senate from voting on the Grassley Amendment. Late last night, Reid filed a cloture motion. This motion will block all further debate on the bill and would block votes on any more amendments. This means the Senate could pass the DHS bill without even allowing a vote on the Grassley Amendment!
Blocking a vote on this amendment would represent nothing more than pandering to the special interests who do not want our immigration laws enforced. Even well-known amnesty advocate and chair of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said yesterday on the Senate floor that E-Verify “probably should” be used to verify the work authorization status of existing employees! That is exactly what the Grassley Amendment would do.
We need your help!! Here’s what you can do to help FAIR pass the Grassley Amendment and open up illegally-held jobs for American Workers:
- Call your Senators, and tell them to support the Grassley E-Verify Amendment. (Click here to find your Senators’ telephone numbers.)
- Urge the Senate to oppose cloture until Senator Grassley gets a vote on his amendment!
With nearly 15 million Americans out of work — and with more than 8 million illegal aliens holding jobs in the United States — the least Reid can do is allow for an up-or-down vote on this crucial measure!
- Call Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid at (202)-224-3542. Tell him that it’s unfair that illegal aliens can continue to hold jobs while so many Americans are hurting. Urge Reid to ignore special interests and allow the Senate to vote on the Grassley Amendment!
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Now that E-verify has not been sacrificed for the business community, it should be implemented across these United States. Right now rogue states like California a self branded–SANCTUARY STATE–should be forced by federal mandate on every government employee to be vetted by E-Verify. This is including every industry, business no matter who is on their payroll. There is no doubt in my mind that both the Federal, state and municipal governments have thousands of illegal workers, who are hiding out in plain site? A huge purge across the board will open jobs for documented legal residents and citizens and start the extraction process of foreign national by self-deportation. NOT JUST THE NEWEST EMPLOYEES, BUT EVERY WORKER WHO DRAWS A PAYCHECK? Remember that California business and contractors have had the luxury of hiring cheap labor, without any restrictions for decades.
However the tide is turning finally within Washington and hopefully the insistence of –THE PEOPLE– drumming in their ears. The politicians have probably been stupefied by the barrage of irate voters calling for a permanent E-Verify adjoined to the Save Act. Under close scrutiny the people have demanded a double layer fence as originally designed by Rep. Duncan Hunter and upgrading E-verification, to enhance the search for illegal labor. The majority of liberal news desks, foundations, open border and free traders who don’t want their supply of cheap labor severed, have given no indication that errors in immigration status can be resolved in the Social Security local office. California should certainly be a goal of ICE enforcement, specifically Los Angeles County and counterpart San Francisco, whose Mayors, Judges and elected officers have taken it upon themselves to shield illegal immigrants.
They have allowed easy access to Medi-Cal and a whole host of benefits, that was to support the bone fide population. No wonder the Great state is sinking under a $24. billion red ink deficit? State government used their devious influence to table Proposition 187, before being filed with the higher courts. We must not let down our guard, because once upon a time when there was no communications through the Internet, our politicians could easily stamp on our rights. There was no instant alarm bell of what legislation was secretly being discussed in Washington. Now we know what our elected officials are conniving behind our backs. That’s why the American public has stayed ignorant and not so happy over the years. We only found out about laws afterwards, when it was too late to fight enactment.
We are already aware of a BLANKET AMNESTY being authored by Sen. Chuck Schumer, which will place upon the American people even more hardship in higher taxes to support illegal immigrants who have settled here. That is not even that is the main catastrophe? Although we are told that stricter immigration enforcement will be orchestrated , it will not stop the tens of millions who will swarm into America in the months to come? It will be like a human locust storm crossing our borders, in the hope of another AMNESTY? It is what the Council of Foreign Relations want? Unchecked, unfettered cheap labor as in their North American Union agenda. GOOGLE–the (CFR) and find their intentions?
The results of a BLANKET AMNESTY will not just be the irreparable costs attributed to feeding millions of more people, government benefits. But it will submerge us in un-reversible momentum towards OVERPOPULATION. From 305 million population–NOW–but an extra 135 million in 40 years. Read more at NUMBERSUSA, CAPSWEB AMERICANPATROL & FAIR for the facts. CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS NOW AT 202-224-3121.