Stimulus bill without E-Verify would provide construction jobs to 300,000 illegal aliens!

http://capwiz.com/caps/issues/alert/?alertid=12596121 ^ | 2/5/09

[Sammy67]

The current version of the Senate’s stimulus bill would provide about 300,000 jobs in the construction industry to illegal aliens since it does not contain the E-Verify mandate of the House bill.

A Heritage Foundation study by Robert Rector used the government’s own figures to arrive at that figure. The Senate bill would provide about $104 billion in funding for construction projects, creating jobs for about 2.04 million construction workers over several years.

[AzSteven]

I hate headlines like that - drama and breathlessness, but overblown. The bill COULD employee illegals. Or not. However, the headline implies a certainty that all jobs would go only to illegals.

That is not to say the EVerify should be skipped - I definitely want that requirement in there. I just hate when folks supporting issues I support act like the moonbat left in their methods.

[UglyinLA]

if we start arguing over the details then we’ve lost the battle. Republicans need to resist the entire notion of a bailout/stimulus. The Senate Republicans need to show the same fortitude as the House Republicans. VOTE NO.

Any Republican that votes YES should be voted out of office.

[blam]

No White Male Construction Workers

[Loyal Buckeye]

I hate headlines like that - drama and breathlessness, but overblown. The bill COULD employee illegals. Or not. However, the headline implies a certainty that all jobs would go only to illegals.

What am I missing? The article says 300,000 illegals could get construction jobs of the 2 million+ total. Based on what I saw during the recent construction boom, I would guess that number is low.

BTW, I don't believe the 2 million+ number.

[acoulterfan]

Bail Out E-Verify

http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16501&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1742

[ravingnutter]

What am I missing?

Ummm....maybe the fact that it is already against the law to hire illegals? If construction companies don't follow the current law, what makes you think they will follow this one? IOW...what is the point in arguing this detail at all?

[Loyal Buckeye]

I think we are in agreement, no? Bottom line: illegals will take a lot of the construction jobs funded by the ‘stimulus’ bill.

[Oldexpat]

Reich wanted to make sure that the jobs wouldn’t go to “white constructions workers”..so I guess that means they go to illegals, because they sure aren’t hiring blacks.
Just take a look at the crews out on the streets today...they are mostly hispanic.

[Travis McGee]

Porkulus must die!

[ridesthemiles]

All other employers in the USA are to use E-Verify and the Feds don’t have to?

We are falling down the Rabbit Hole, and we will find John Galt there when we land.

[ravingnutter]

Basically, yes...just different perspectives. While I don’t believe it is necessary to include a provision in the bill as it would be redundant, I do think that ICE should continue with raids to enforce the current law.

[Colvin]

I don’t know why this would upset anyone.
Just another way to send our money over the boarder, just like shopping at Wallmart. Its a good deal for the tax payers because the Illegals work cheaper.
/sarc

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>While I don’t believe it is necessary to include a provision in the bill as it would be redundant, I do think that ICE should continue with raids to enforce the current law.<<

First of all, they should s**tcan the whole sty-mulus bill. However, e-verify is not redundant. Currently it is optional.

[KeyLargo]

chicagotribune.com

Democrats undercut aid for U.S. workers

John Kass

February 11, 2009

With all the hoopla over greasy pork being stuffed into President Barack Obama’s near trillion-dollar spending bill, it’s what is being cut out that’s receiving too little attention.

And once Americans realize it, they won’t be happy.

What’s been quietly stripped is a provision that would have required any businesses receiving federal stimulus cash to use an easy computer program called E-Verify to make sure that the jobs they generate go to American citizens or documented foreign workers, not illegal immigrants.

Excerpt

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-11-feb11,0,657719.column

[EternalVigilance]

I definitely want that requirement in there

I definitely DO NOT. The notion that the government should have a data-base of all of us and that we should have to go to them for permission to work I find to be an appalling one. Un-American. Sounds like a fascist notion right out of 1984 or the book of Revelation.

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

[AzSteven]

I definitely DO NOT. The notion that the government should have a data-base of all of us and that we should have to go to them for permission to work I find to be an appalling one. Un-American. Sounds like a fascist notion right out of 1984 or the book of Revelation.

You're about 60 years too late on that particular concern

[EternalVigilance]

You're about 60 years too late on that particular concern

It's never too late for freedom, while we're still breathing.

Don't use the abuses of the past to justify the further, and perhaps final, destruction of our liberty.

Where to you derive your constitutionally enumerated power to tell the people who can and cannot work?