Posted on 06/17/2006 9:44:47 AM PDT by bitt
President Bush has put forward a comprehensive vision for immigration reform that will secure our borders, strengthen interior enforcement and create a temporary worker program that is not amnesty but will provide a legal,regulated path for those seeking work in the United States.
A key part of this strategy is effective worksite enforcement. Simply put, we need to give employers better tools to verify the legal status of their employees.Under the president's plan,we will provide new tools—including a tamper-proof identification card for legal foreign workers and an expanded electronic verification system that will allow employers to quickly and accurately confirm work eligibility.
At the same time, we need to enforce stronger penalties against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens, including employers who have made illegal labor part of their business model. Congress is hard at work on a bill that will make the president's vision a reality, but two additional reforms will help us hold employers accountable for breaking the law and help the Department of Homeland Security identify and prosecute employers who are blatantly abusing our immigration system.
First,employers have an obligation under existing law to take action when the federal government notifies them that they may have hired an illegal alien. In certain instances, when a worker's Social Security number does not match that worker's name on tax or employment eligibility documents, the federal government sends out a "no-match" letter asking them to resolve the discrepancy.In fact,out of 250 million wage reports the Social Security Administration receives each year, as many as 10 percent belong to employees whose names don't match their Social Security numbers. SSA attempts to clear up these mismatches, sorting out reports where the worker's name or Social Security number was mistyped but still ends up with almost 9 million unmatched reports.
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Pure BS!
ping
So much for those two or three points he gained in the polls.
A bit off-topic, but I'm curious to know if it would be effective to make a citizen's arrest of an illegal alien. Having read where at least one FReeper was involved in a wreck with an illegal, and the cop simply turned the guy loose, could a citizen's arrest have accomplished anything?
Conservative Republicans in the House are hard at work on a bill...
(While the White House and Senate have sold out the American public)
"not amnesty but ..."
Always a big fat "but" where "not amnesty" is concerned.
AMEN and AMEN
If you are here illegally you should be deported immediately.
Arrest all illegals and throw them all out.
You want to be here? Come legally and follow the law.
After reading an article in the paper today about a young lady who found out that her social security number has been used by 83 illegals has burned my butt. No help from the feds or IRS in tracking down these criminals. The amount of taxes paid by these criminals was minimal on the stolen number. I just received a letter from the IRS just two months after filing stating I did not cross a T or something. Well if the IRS turns out wanting to audit me I will tell them that I will absolutely comply with anything they want ONLY after they show me the list of 20 million audits done on illegals in this country first. It is time for us legals to stand up and demand accountability.
Is this the Bush plan or the Fox plan? Maybe they got together to make it "comprehensive."
In the meantime, as tens of thousands of illegal immigrants stream across our borders, the INS is "enforcing" by preventing a Russian grandmother and grandfather from attending their granddaughter's wedding in the US.
It's offensive.
Hey dont turn this thread into an anti-bush-illegal hoard discussion...er...nevermind.
Is Free Republic trying to bury illegal threads? Don't seem to see allot of them.
keyword immigration and immigrantlist
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