Immigration Enforcement DOES Belong in Senate Floor Debate About Unemployment Payments

Numbers USA ^ | October 27, 2009 | Roy Beck

[yoe]

Sen. Durbin (D-Ill.) last night and today is once again using his leadership position to make (false claims about E-Verify's reliability) and to project the absolutely foolish notion that unemployment and immigration have no relationship.

But while he laments the 125,000 who have recently lost their unemployment benefits (I do, too), he ignores the fact that HIS immigration policies now in place have given out 125,000 brand new work permits to foreign workers during the last month.

Sadly, Sen. Durbin is Exhibit A of the intellectual hypocrisy that is pervasive in Congress. He gives speeches as a champion of (unemployed Americans) while his actions throw ever more Americans out of work.

Such is the ability for self-deception in Congress that I wonder if Sen. Durbin and his foreign-labor-importing buddies have the slightest consciousness of their counterproductivity.

SITUATION ON THE HILL TODAY

The Senate is trying to extend unemployment benefits for a lot of our poor fellow Americans who lost their jobs long ago and who are reaching the limits of benefits. But before voting to extend, some of our friends in the Senate want to make sure that none of these( scarce benefits goes to illegal foreign workers.)

Sen. Durbin considers that concern to be absolutely outrageous. (Read more about the proposed amendment here.)

[yoe]

Here is what is happening on the other side of the Health Care Bill smoke screen.......Durbin lies again.........

[JayVee]

I live in Illinois; I have no representation in the United States Senate.

[jwparkerjr]

Immigration enforcement belongs in EVERY thing Congress considers. It's just about the biggest problem we have in this country. Just like Iran is at the heart of most of the world's trouble with terror these days, illegal immigration is at the heart of many of the problems we have in this country.

I am 110% in favor of legal immigration. But the other kind has to be stopped. And I don't buy they BS that we can't suddenly deport millions of illegal immigrants. No one has said we should. But we can darn sure get busy and ship their butts home ANYTIME they come to the attention of the authorities. Crime, employment, health, whatever. The moment they come to our attention it's on the bus and on the road.

[MSF BU]

I live in Massachusetts and feel the same way. I identify good candidates elsewhere and send them money to help them get nominated as a method of compensating.

[HighlyOpinionated]

I used E-verify in my job as a Caseworker.

Not only is it reliable, it helped me catch a few ILLEGAL aliens who had purchased their bogus green cards on the streets of Atlanta, GA.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Same here in MN: Klubaseal and Weird Al.