Posted on 05/29/2007 3:17:04 PM PDT by Revel
No jobs for US citizens without Homeland Security approval Submitted by Canada IFP on Sat, 2007-05-26 18:00.Americas | United States | News
US citizens who apply for a job will need prior approval from Department of Homeland Security under the terms immigration bill passed by the Senate this week.
American Civil Liberties Union pointed out that the DHS's Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) is error plagued and if the department makes a mistake in determining work eligibility, there will be virtually no way to challenge the error or recover lost wages due to the bills prohibitions on judicial review.
Even current employees will need to obtain eligibility approval from the DHS Within 60 days of the Immigration Reform Act of 2006 becoming law.
"EEVS would be a financial and bureaucratic nightmare for both businesses and workers," said Timothy Sparapani, ACLU Legislative Counsel. "Under this already flawed program no one would be able to work in the U.S. without DHS approval - creating a No Work List similar to the governments No Fly List. We need immigration reform, but not at this cost."
The act allocates US$400 million for the implementation of the EEVS, but the Congressional Budgeting Office estimates the system to cost in excess of a billion dollars.
I’m sure they’ll start enforcing this law real soon. /sarc
This sounds crazy. Does anyone else not understand what the hell its saying?
You must have a mark to buy and sell.
I am 110% against the bill, but I would not trust a word the ACLU says.
It is too damn bad that the government is not small enough to drown in a bath tub. But I guess Americans are used to it (hell, happy about it) being big enough to enslave 300+ million sheeple.
Well I don’t like the ACLU either, but sometimes they get something right. I am sure that there are intelligent people here on FR that could find out the truth.
Yup. Here comes the “Brave New World”.
So, those who paid the money to come here legally, who filed numerous papers to become legal, who took the trouble to learn our rules to pass the test, have to now get approval to get a job.
How in the H does this help with the illegal problem? It is not the legal immigrants that is the problem!!
Are these people insane?
Name the last two. I know one of them.
I don't think so. I think they just want power and they know how to get it. They also know that the American sheeple are either too preoccupied with bread and circuses or too stupid to do anything about it.
“You must have a mark to buy and sell.”
I also read that this bill would require Americans to carry a “Hardened” social security card. Which of course is just a sneaky way of instituting a National Identity card. The mark is coming soon. I am sure.
“Oh what they have hidden in this bill.”
Read it.
It doesn’t take a law degree to understand just how F’d up this bill is.
I'm not sure whether to be comforted by this or depressed by the inevitability of it all.
> Im sure theyll start enforcing this law real soon. /sarc
Only on citizens.
Actually there are two aspects in the bill that are quite good and this is one of them (probably why the ACLU hates it). It is simply an electronic verification of your social security status.
The other good part of the bill is changing from chain family migration to a point system based on merit.
These are two very important changes we need to make, the problem is that the rest of the bill is a poison pill and would cause increased illegal immigration.
ACLU=anti-christ.
I wonder why you post such stupidity. You give people grounds for criticizing Christianity with your dopey application of the Bible to the current topic. The text says nothing that applies.
WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!
Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them.
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