Oh good grief. Open your eyes. After 9/11/2001, it was the Republican executive branch, house, and divided Senate that funded and built the 15 foot high steel fence along our Southern border from the Pacific into Arizona, added border patrol agents and increased the frequency of patrols, as well as passed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal Aliens
S. 1685, the Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003, was signed by President Bush on December 3, 2003.
It extends for five years the workplace employment eligibility authorization pilot programs created in 1996. It expands the pilot programs from the original five states to all 50 states.