[Happy2BMe]

A law is a law only if it is enforced by the government that created that law.

[Happy2BMe]

"Worksite enforcement (of arresting employers of illegal aliens) has been a low priority," Stana told a House Judiciary Committee panel on immigration.

[glorgau]

Why uisn't Congress holding hearings on this? One would think that it would make great opportunities for grandstanding.

[dirtboy]

Three U.S. employers were threatened with sanctions in 2004, compared with 162 the previous year and 417 in 1999

And we should trust the Bush Admin with a guest worker program? When they say they will improve border security? Pfft...

[Realism]

no employers who were found to have hired the illegal immigrants faced any kind of financial penalty

We really need to start electing some grass-roots people into the government, these lawyers, businessmen and bureaucrats just aren't working out.

[Bella_Bru]

Penalties against employers who hire illegal immigrants have all but disappeared since 1999, a federal homeland security investigator told Congress.

Duh. The GOP has always bragged about being a friend to business. Now they are a friend to business at the expense of the taxpayer.

[SwinneySwitch]

Friggin' TRAITORS!!!

Sold out by our own government.

Batards!

[gubamyster]

ping

[Iron Matron]

the Justice Department conducted sweeps of airport workers, identified 1,000 undocumented workers "but perhaps not as many terrorists as they thought they might identify."

IMO, Illegal aliens ARE Terrorists..they terrorize our citizens with murders, they terrorize our pocketbooks, their gangs terrorize our neighborhoods.

Sounds like the Government is using the WOT to NOT protect our Borders.

[afnamvet]

Three U.S. employers were threatened with sanctions in 2004, compared with 162 the previous year and 417 in 1999, Richard M. Stana, director of the homeland security and justice team at the Government Accountability Office, testified Tuesday.

Is this a surprise to anyone? Another example of our hard earned tax dollars at work.

Disgusting.

[engrpat]

If the government can't, won't or refuses to enforce current law why should I believe them now that they are calling for new laws? This illegal immigration issue is getting out of hand. It seems that many in congress are getting the word but I fear (oh h*ll) I know they will shove through the system some fine sounding legislation with little or no teeth and no desire to enforce. Just like Bush and the hiring of new BP agents. Sure call for them, have the legislation passed but don't hire them......what can be more Clinton-esk?

[usurper]

Also contributing to the lax enforcement, Stana said, is the availability of fraudulent Social Security cards and other documents. Stana said some employers who knowingly hire unauthorized workers avoid sanctions by going through the motions of compliance:

Until this glaring loophole is fixed through legislation the law is unenforceable. Which is why they passed it in the first place. No one believed it would work, it’s not much of a surprise it failed to have any impact.

[LibertarianInExile]

"no employers who were found to have hired the illegal immigrants faced any kind of financial penalty."

Congressional meddling with executive branch bureaucracies almost certainly plays a large role here, as does Presidential disinterest.

I have been preaching on this issue a long while: if the law were enforced on employers' duty to examine legal hiring status, there would be few illegals coming to the U.S. Instead raids round up illegals and let the guilty employer go. Not a slap on the wrist--no penalty at all.

[shellshocked]

The federal government has failed to enforce the immigration laws of this nation. Instead, they tell us to except the illegals. Meanwhie, they tell us our property isn't ours anymore.


What use is our government except as aggressors against us?

[Lester Moore]

Central Government enablement of a tidal wave of illegals

seizure of citizen's property to redistribute to other citizens

estimated 40% - 45% of income taken by various levels of government in taxes

hammering cancer patients over smoking pot

at least 50,000,000 babies shredded to death since 1973

1,000,000+ babies legally shredded to death every year.

There's just nothing to be said any longer.

There is no debate really. If I don't submit they will kill me.

Shall I live in peace with this evil? hmmmmm

"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!" by Patrick Henry

[janetgreen]

George W. Bush's America - where everyone has to follow the laws except illegal aliens and their employers, who get off scot-free.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Thank you for the post! I heard Roger Hedgecock mention that on Rush yesterday. What a disgrace. THREE? They only cut the number of agents to one half. What kind of agents are they? BEAM ... ME ... UP!

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

For the sake of overkill, thought I'd ping you.