Growing Furor Over Undocumented Immigrants Getting Stimulus Jobs

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Monday, March 09, 2009 at 10:48 am

Illegal immigrants could get up to 300,000 construction jobs financed by the federal stimulus, reports USA Today.  Based on studies conducted by two conservative think tanks, whose numbers are based on the U.S. census, article reports that some 15 percent of the 2 million new construction jobs could go to immigrants without working papers.

Although immigrants’ rights advocates don’t necessarily dispute those numbers, the question is what to do about it.

Groups like the conservative Heritage Foundation and Center for Immigration Studies say their studies supports the use of E-Verify, the controversial computer system I’ve written about here.  E-Verify is a federal government program that’s supposed to allow employers to quickly check the immigration status of employees and job applicants, but due to database errors can also end up blocking legal employees and even U.S. citizens from getting a job. Groups advocating an aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration are still hoping to require employers receiving stimulus money to screen all new hires using E-Verify, though they didn’t succeed in getting that provision into the stimulus bill approved by Congress.

Immigrants’ rights advocates argue that the better solution is to develop a plan for comprehensive immigration reform that would offer legal status to workers living in the United States and willing to work, obey the laws and pay taxes. They argue that will ultimately do more to stimulate the economy than spending money trying to track down and deport some 11 million undocumented immigrants.

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15 Comments

HernandezUSA
Comment posted March 9, 2009 @ 8:54 am

You started, OK with the title and then went into the liberal spinning of the truth.

Giving amnesty to criminals is retarded as NONE obey or follow our laws, thats why they are illegal aliens. ( using STOLEN SS#, driving without a license, collecting social services, and working in the United States) and thats just a few things that illegals do every day breaking the law.

E-verify IS NOT full database errors……..open borders groups has yet to date find a single United States Citizen that has not been able to get a job, due to E-verify……….Only Illegals think its bad because it keeps illegals (criminals) out of the job market. In addition if there are error in the database its because of human ERROR, not the system and with a 93% success RATE thats dam near flawless.

With 12 million United States citizens families being unemployed today and growing, the Liberals and RACIST groups from La RAZA must out of their minds, if they think we are just going to sit on the streets with our children and die, so illegals can keep our jobs in the form of Amnesty.

We need increased RAIDS and mandatory E-verify for all business's to end this blight on U.S. jobs from predatory business owners and illegal aliens.


wandagb
Comment posted March 9, 2009 @ 4:39 pm

As economist and ethicist Adam Smith said, “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” Here it is giving jobs to illegals is unemployment for Americans.

Everything you need to know about immigration and what to do about it humorously told.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBw1nUlf38I

(Roy Beck and NumbersUSA are the “gumaball” heroes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7WJeqxuOfQ


Delaware Bob
Comment posted March 9, 2009 @ 6:35 pm

Tell me this is not a slap in the face to American workers! ILLEGAL ALIENS have absolutely no right to be in this Country and our GREAT LEADERS are going to give ILLEGAL ALIENS jobs over AMERICANS?

What the h__l is this Country coming to?


scott
Comment posted March 9, 2009 @ 7:12 pm

great,while Americans are losing their homes,the meda meda crowd is getting the jobs.Just like when Carter let the Marianna boat people in in the 70's,”no comprenda englise,but outside the welfare office,I got a 350 dollar ck,how bout you”


Hunter
Comment posted March 10, 2009 @ 1:33 am

Just 2% of the 13 million illegal's work in agriculture however 7 million work in construction, manufacturing and service industries and the vast majority of those 7 million are committing identity fraud through the use of stolen IDs.

Are these the type people we should welcome to America to take our jobs?


Marge
Comment posted March 10, 2009 @ 6:34 am

This author is so biased that I hope no one thinks this is an actual report worthy of being called news. All employers should use E-verify not only those for government jobs. This should be a requirement as we are swarming with illegal aliens who are not legal immigrants but rather criminals. There is no need to round them up but rather enforce our laws and stop the benefits including the free health care, free education and millions of perks….not to mention the jackpot anchor babies. Remember when we hear “Immigrant rights advocates” we are refering to illegal alien supporters. These criminals will self deport if there are not jobs and we take away the benefits. American citizens are hurting and we are sick of pandering to the illegals and every liberal media advocate for the criminals makes us more furious. The sham of comprehensive reform is that illegla aliens will now become law-abiding, pay taxes and learn English. We have years of reality that this is not so and will never happen. Check out another reality:
http://www.voiac.org/
Lets also make picking up day-laborers a crime…


jskdn
Comment posted March 10, 2009 @ 11:28 am

Daphne Eviatar is a simply an open-borders hack without a shred of journalistic integrity. The GAO reported that less than 1% of job applicants received erroneous tentative nonconfirmations. And they are called tentative because a person can have it fixed if it is wrong, something those few who have to do so only have to do once. If the policy was mandated for all employees the database would soon be very accurate.

Contrary to what Eviatar says, E-verify reduces the need for deportation as a tool. What every honest immigration expert has said is that employment verification is the cornerstone policy for controlling illegal immigration, which is why illegal immigration advocates like her don't want it. As many people are discovering, it's hard to live without a job and jobs that could go to legal workers are now going to illegal immigrants. Now if people can get through the massive media propaganda and people like Eviatar who masquerade as journalists, they should realize that there are people in their government who are promoting illegal immigration, including their president. Obama promised to crack down on employers yet he kept a rule that would have required federal contractors to use the system from going into effect. But that campaign lie by Obama fits the media's agenda so he gets a pass.


Darrell Reed
Comment posted March 16, 2009 @ 9:13 am

Ms. Eviatar you are wrong when you say U.S. citizens are blocked from receiving jobs due to e-verify That is a myth being espouted by the amnesty advocate group LARAZA,ACORN,and the so called U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the ACLU.So I strongly suggest you check your facts before printing there agendas to get amnesty for 12 to 20,000,000 ILLEGAL ALIENS.When in fact the e-verify system has been proven to be over 95% accurate and any mistakes made are usually cleared up in a matter of minutes to 24hrs.and please explain how flooding the job market with 12 to 20,000,000 ILLEGAL ALIENS would help when in fact we have 12,000,000 plus United States citizens unemployed and in part by those ILLEGAL ALIENS………………..


Darrell Reed
Comment posted March 16, 2009 @ 9:26 am

jskdn Thanks to our out of touch “CHANGE”president,Sen,HarryReid,and REP.Pelosi with there closed door secret deals the ILLEGAL ALIENS will possibly get a stimulus check,and job just for the asking.


heyjude54
Comment posted March 16, 2009 @ 1:57 pm

First I'd like to point out that BOTH Obama and McCain are pro-amnesty. Sure, McCain did a complete flip-flop, turn-around to appease the base but the McCain/Kennedy bill was too fresh in my memory. Don't tell me he wouldn't have reverted back to his original opinion.
The whole idea of making them legal so they will be allowed to take these stimulus jobs makes me totally sick! I thought the idea was to stimulate the US economy, NOT the Mexican economy. A great share of those earnings will leave south of the border if they get these jobs!
California's (Mexifornia) economic mess is a direct result of supporting so many illegals. This is exactly what the rest of the country will be facing if this is allowed.


Joe Guzzardi
Comment posted March 24, 2009 @ 2:55 am

Your story March 4th story “Growing Furor Over Undocumented Immigrants Getting Stimulus Jobs” ignores completely what impact allowing “undocumented immigrants” getting jobs or an amnesty might have on unemployed Americans—including Hispanic-Americans.

Do you ever consider the plight of American workers when you sit down to write you stories?—or should I say editorials since you never present another side to the amnesty argument.

Here are a few things to consider for your next story. These facts and figures are widely available to you on the Internet. I’m puzzled why you never mention them.

* The official unemployment rate has soared to 8.1% (highest since 1983)
* U.S. employers cut 651,000 jobs in February
* That is on top of 655,000 jobs lost in January and 681,000 jobs cut in December.

* 4.4 million — Total jobs eliminated since the recession began in December of 2007.

The number of Americans reeling from the bad job market is staggering:

* 12.5 million Americans are actively looking for a job and cannot find even part-time employment.
* Another 8.6 million Americans want a full-time job and have been forced to work part-time.

American workers in nearly every part of the economy were under seige in February:

* Construction companies cut 104,000 jobs.
* Factories cut 168,000.
* Retailers cut nearly 40,000.
* Professional and business services cut 180,000, with 78,000 jobs lost at temporary-help agencies.
* Financial companies cut 44,000 jobs.
* Leisure and hospitality firms chopped 33,000 positions.


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Comment posted April 18, 2009 @ 8:37 pm

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Comment posted April 24, 2009 @ 5:16 am

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Comment posted April 24, 2009 @ 12:16 pm

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Mlk616
Comment posted April 19, 2011 @ 3:41 pm

i am not prejudice but when i am looking for employment the
only people I see working are mexicans some of them have
two jobs they send half their money to there country
so it does not help our economy. as for us american citizens we cant find work if the bosses are mexicans
they will only hire own people; our american citizens
are being discriminated upon by our own system on top
if we have backgrounds we cant get employment but they
cant check an illegals background so they get preference over jobs.

sincerely unemployed x-con


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