rssReid Doesn’t Want ‘Piecemeal’ Immigration Reform
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 12:10 pm
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Don’t expect to see Harry Reid break up immigration reform into small pieces — at least not if one of those pieces is an expansion of the E-Verify program. The Senate majority leader told a Nevada news station yesterday that he stands behind his decision to block 2009 legislation that would have made the employment eligibility verification program a requirement for construction companies. “We need to do comprehensive immigration reform,” Reid said. “We cannot do it piecemeal.”
Reid has gotten some flack for the statements against E-Verify, which critics say show a lack of support for legal Nevadans whose jobs may being taken by undocumented workers. (Illegal immigrants make up about 10 percent of the Nevada work force.) But there is some merit to the claim that expanding E-Verify would be problematic if it’s not part of a larger reform effort. When the Congressional Budget Office looked into the failed SAVE Act of 2007, it found a high cost to expanding E-Verify. The CBO said the bill would:
Decrease federal revenues by $17.3 billion over the 2009-2018 period. The decrease largely reflects the judgment that mandatory verification of employment eligibility through the E-Verify system would result in an increase in the number of undocumented workers being paid outside the tax system. In particular, JCT anticipates that some employers currently withholding income and employment taxes from the wages of undocumented workers and reporting these amounts to the Internal Revenue Service through the use of an Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN) or other employee identification number would no longer withhold or report such taxes.
The revenue problem could perhaps be countered by putting more Americans back into the work force. But without additional measures to keep businesses from working around the system and employing undocumented workers, an expansion of E-Verify could be a costly move.
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Reid needs to be shown the door and hopefully he will in Nov
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Pay careful attention to the fact that Senator Harry Reid did his utmost to emasculate E-Verify and weaken its ability by only serving it as a voluntary program. E-Verify on a permanent basis would have offered no options, but to follow this law in removing illegal labor from any businesses. He was also involved in softening the 287 (g) local policing arrest and detain of illegal aliens instead of making that federal program mandatory. He has also shown his contempt for the 9.5 percentage rate of unemployed and underemployed Americans, as he along with his band of Brothers and sisters is out to award the population with another Amnesty. Whether they pay a fine, including paying back taxes, learn English and being placed at the back of the legal immigrant line–its still –AMNESTY. What amnesty or what immigration reform means? The last Amnesty was a travesty of the “Rule of Law” We are still paying for the 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli bill. When this law was sanctioned, it was supposedly contained employer enforcement?
The law was ignored and millions still came to America, drawn by jobs. Only a permanent, federally mandated E-VERIFY in the workplace can begin to remove illegal workers out of America by ATTRITION. The 3 million who were legitimized turned into about 6 million, along with the “Chain migration” so that immediate family members could join the original sponsor. The guarantors signed a declaration that those they sponsored wouldn't become a welfare liability. This didn't materialize and the chain migration family members, ended up a taxpayers problem. The same law that we inherited to stay any more new illegal arrivals, has been absolute BS. Since 1986 we are still being invaded by millions?
The census Bureau Dr. Robert Groves director didn't even deny there could be over 18 million illegal people squatting here, whereas the Liberal press still insists that we are only co-inhabiting with 11 million or so. Americans have been articulated that the fence is near completion–this is more BS. This isn't even the actual fence as originally enacted into law as of the 2006 Secure Fence Act. Underfunded, it was cut to one fence, instead of two equivalent fences.
What is coming is plain unadulterated–AMNESTY and nothing more. That you the taxpayer will inherit the huge costs, and even when this does come to a head–MILLIONS MORE WILL STILL KEEP COMING, WHEREVER BY LAND, SEA OR AIR. It’s imperative we remove all those pro-amnesty, anti-sovereignty lawmakers, before November. Start with Sen. Harry Reid, who has a large proportion of illegal workers and families living in Nevada. Because of the dire consequences of illegal immigration growth, we must be careful to watch who is voting in the mid-term elections. Nevada has the welcome mat for foreign nationals that have infected the entertainment and construction industry, with a state fighting massive deficits.
Arizona, on the other hand cannot continue to subsidize the illegal aliens who have congregated there, with a police force that is unable to contain the spreading crime wave. Across this nation absentee ballots are easily compromised and illegal immigrants may try to vote keep corrupt incumbents in Washington. Now is the very time to warn you’re federal, state representatives that you as a voter in watching their every move. Call to determine where they stand on what is sadly called Immigration Reform at 202-224-3121
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