Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $16,225
20%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 20%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: hr4088

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • House seeks worker checks on legal status

    11/19/2007 9:58:44 PM PST · by Tennessee Nana · 29 replies · 153+ views
    Chattanooga Times Free Press ^ | November 20, 2007 | Herman Wang
    WASHINGTON -- About 100 House members will attempt to do what the Senate could not do this year: pass an immigration reform bill. The Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act, recently introduced by Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., would require employers to verify that their workers are here legally through an electronic database, authorize money to add 8,000 border patrol agents over five years and increase aerial surveillance of the Southwest border. "This is, I feel, a common-sense approach," Rep. Shuler said. "We've seen how the Senate has failed on two occasions to put together an immigration policy." The bill,...