Is this like that e-verify thing? Didn’t that get repealed or something because it’s racist or bigoted or steals the civil rights of illegal aliens?!
Even though Shuler is a Dem, there are plenty of Reps supporting this bill, i.e., the SAVE Act. We should be contacting our congresscritters to support it.
Ditto on the comment that this is already pretty much being done. I’m doing my 5th set of new hire papers in the last 2 years, and I’m pretty sure that employers are indeed verifying.
This is one of those “feed red meat to my base” bills that probably won’t get out of committee, and if it does, will die at the end of the session.
This is just an attempt by Shuler to get reelected. Typical blue-dog move. Lay on the ground for the libs, but every once in a while do ‘something’ to show that they are ‘conservative’. Either way, they continue to give power to liberals.
U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler is introducing a bill that will require employers to verify the work authorization status of employees through a nationwide database.
Heath is in my district and it’s pretty conservative. He’s right on the gun issue and opposes the current health care bill (but will vote for one if he’s pressured). He voted against the stimulus bill but he voted for the cap and trade bill. So, kind of a mixed bag. This bill will go absolutely nowhere but looks good on his resume come re-election time. It’s nothing more than a smokescreen for his voters.
DOA.
While his intentions are very political because his butt is on the line, we should still support such measures. Shuler is a snake but even a broken watch is correct twice a day.
He’s posing for re-election. He does not want this and he knows it has no chance of even getting to the floor for a vote. But it will look good in a campaign commercial for the ignorant in his district.
Heath Schuler is a feckless DEMOCRAT asshole. I don’t want to hear a thing about his so-called consevatism. He votes the Pelosi line almost all the time.