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| AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker joins members of trade, faith and labor organizations to launch the Reform Immigration for America campaign. |
More than 200 organizations today launched a national coalition to push for comprehensive immigration reform. The election of a new president and Congress with strong immigrant support, coupled with solid public backing for reform, have created a new political landscape for immigration legislation, the group’s leaders said at a news conference in Washington, D.C.
Reform Immigration for America includes the AFL-CIO, Change to Win, the National Council of La Raza, the NAACP and the Asian American Justice Center. The campaign was launched to coincide with a three-day meeting of more than 700 progressive advocates and allies this week and an upcoming White House meeting on immigration June 15.
Speaking at the National Press Club, Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum, said the coalition is proposing reform that would “replace the chaos” of our current immigration system with an orderly system that would enforce labor standards, help revive our economy, reunite families and provide a clear path to citizenship for undocumented workers who register and go through background checks.
AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker said the time has come for comprehensive reform.
Our nation’s broken immigration system isn’t working for anybody—not for immigrant workers who are routinely exploited by companies and not for U.S.-born workers whose living standards are being undermined by the creation of a new “underclass.” Reform of our current system is an integral part of our efforts to eliminate enormous social and economic inequalities here and around the world.
Holt Baker noted that the AFL-CIO has been working with former Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall and the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) on a framework for reform that is based on the same values as the campaign: fairness, justice and accountability.
For example, the campaign and the AFL-CIO/EPI/Marshall framework both support a new approach to determining how many immigrant workers should come into the U.S. labor market. Rather than relying on new temporary worker programs, that approach relies on an independent commission that can assess labor market needs on an ongoing basis and determine the number of foreign workers to be admitted for employment purposes, based on the needs of the labor market. Details of the framework are available here.
The campaign announced it is using new technologies such as a text messaging system and online organizing strategies to direct messages to members of Congress. You can help make a difference to pass comprehensive reform by joining the group’s “Text Alert Action Network.” Just text “justice” to 69866 and follow the instructions.
The campaign also launched a website, www.reformimmigrationforamerica.org, to give advocates and supporters the latest news about immigration reform.
“For far too long, we have allowed a can’t-do minority to block progress and manipulate this issue to tear our country apart,” said Janet Murguia, president of the National Council of La Raza.
It is time to say…”no more.” We need a system that restores dignity and the rule of law, and we have the ability and the opportunity to make that hope a reality.
Momentum is growing for the government to address immigration. A new poll by the Pew Research Center found that nearly two-thirds (63 percent) support comprehensive reform. But when given specific details of what that reform entails—including securing the border, cracking down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants, requiring immigrants to register for status, pay back taxes and learn English—86 percent gave their support. In fact, poll respondents perceived “an economic and fiscal benefit to immigration reform and want Congress to address the economy and immigration reform simultaneously.
Other participants in today’s news conference included NAACP President Benjamin Jealous; Center for American Progress President John Podesta; Karen Narasaki, president of the Asian American Justice Center; SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina; the Rev. Sam Rodriquez, president of the National Hispanic Christian leadership Conference; and Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.
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MILLIONS OF PUBLIC IRATE VOICES, CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE?
The British Office of National Statistics, immigrants send home about £4 billion a year in remittances back to their home countries. When this is added to the previously estimated cost of immigration to Britain of £8.8 billion, the grand total of £12.8 billion is reached. Which is about $18 billion US Dollars. The British Islands can be placed in California three and half times. So what is illegal immigration costing the US taxpayers compared to the United Kingdom? The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) says the flow of remittances to Latin America has doubled in the past four years, to an estimated $55 billion this year–and that’s just Latin America? Obviously the US government keeps it undisclosed.
But if you add up the demands of foreign nationals for free health care, education, food stamps, low income housing and so much more, that is guaranteed by forced federal mandates and state give-aways We must demand E-Verify that is permanent and not at the mercy of poisoned political influence. E-Verify should not be just for new employees, but everybody who has been with the company for even ten years or more. Unless the bloggers hadn’t commented on the Internet, most communities would have remained in the media’s perpetual darkness about E-Verify.
The Obama administration has been instrumental in trying to kill E-Verify, with an assortment of excuses. Most of the majority Democratic liberals have played games with American workers lives, even to weaken it and allowing at least 300 thousand foreign nationals to gain employment from contractors under the Stimulus bill. US Chamber of Commerce, ACLU, La Raza and other anti-American, anti-sovereignty groups have massive nefarious influence on our Washington. The open border free traders legislators who are continually eroding away our constitutional rights. It’s disgusting that the free trade cartels are using their political insiders such as Sen. Harry Reid, Speaker of the house Pelosi and many more to allow the free movement of uneducated, uncivilized, poor to infiltrate every community in our lands. It is an unforgivable offense to push for an AMNESTY or as they like to call it Immigration reform, when over ten million Americans are jobless.
The morons who are promised to protect all Americans, are really pandering to minorities and the business executives, who want the cheapest workers they can find–without any extras including health care. A very upgraded E-verify application that any literate computer person can use, can begin the attrition of clearing our nation of illegal foreigners. Since the 1960’s they have brought unrestrained criminals, subversives, who have no motive drive-by shooting to prove a point. From wherever they have come, they have tried to force on the American people a nasty form of multiculturalism and fundamentalist religions which attributes to increasing violence. A few officers of the law such as Sheriff Ariapo, have enforced immigration laws on a county level, to be purposely restrained by corrupt politicians such as the new Homeland security chief Napolitano. She is like so many elected officials who make grand entrances, promising to enforce the laws and while admonishing anybody who does. She and her thrall have incapacitated Sheriff Joe in the past, to do his job along with Arizona’s governor. All these spineless characters need to be shown the exit, when they appear for re-election?
We have been forced by federal law to accommodate them with translators in the court system, voting and other measures, when those who came here legally would have been versed in the English language. Americans citizens have been subjected to growing overpopulation, which our politicians seemingly remain quiet about? The pollution in the cities, traffic blockages is an ever growing chaos. We must understand that illegal immigration is causing massive economic setbacks fo our nations own homeless and impoverished. California being the perfect pawn by their governor and Sacramento officials who must cut services, because of the $47 billion budget shortfall. The worst offenders are the liberal press who do not denounce the causes that can be attributed to illegal immigration. There non-democratic principles have allowed the proliferation of Sanctuary States and cities.
The only way for AMERICANS to get any action is to verbally explode on the Senate and Congressional lawmakers is by phoning their aides direct. A million voices or more will make both the states and Washington politicians to realize, their career jobs are on the line. Their greatest ability is to distract American taxpayers with meaningless issues, that only effects minority groups. Illegal Immigration effects everybody, your taxes, your jobs, your language, your culture, your moral integrity, your religion. YOU CAN MAKE AN IMMENSE DIFFERENCE? Senate & Representative for your contact at: (202) 224-3121: THESE PEOPLE ARE YOUR PUBLIC SERVANTS AND SWORE AN OATH TO YOU?. Demand E-Verify today.
WE DON”T NEED NEW IMMIGRATION REFORM–WE JUST NEED THE 1986 SIMPSON/MAZZOLI BILL ENFORCED!
You address a significant problem: millions of Americans are out of work. But what is the source of the problem and what is the solution? Perhaps we can find some common ground here.
Hatred of immigrants without understanding it has been an age old tactic of misdirecting American’s rightful anger.
1. Why are people losing their jobs right now? Is it due to immigration, or because the financial corporations made bad loans? Who actually crippled the economy? Should we be focusing on getting more regulation in place, (such as passing the Federal Transparency Act – which 2 trillion dollars to the Fed bank of NY is not yet being monitored! That is trillion with a T) or spending billions of dollars on a virtual border fence.
Understanding immigration: Most immigrants from our Latin American neighbors are a young workforce. The cost of raising a child has already been borne by their home country. The net cost of immigration is actually much higher for those countries that are losing their young people. The brain drain, so to speak. Welfare, healthcare, etc. are rarely used by immigrants, in no small part because of the threat of deportation, lack of knowledge that they exist, and the stigma attached. This is a myth that large numbers of immigrants use social services. Yet they are forced to pay sales tax, and their labor is taxed as well. You make an excellent case for why there should be amnesty, because like you say “The morons who are promised to protect all Americans, are really pandering to minorities and the business executives, who want the cheapest workers they can find–without any extras including health care.” - The minorities being CEO’s.
When workers are contracted illegally, being able to collectively bargain is an extreme risk. This allows companies to pay dirt wages,exploit their workers, and depressed the wages of all their employees. If they were legalized, the companies would not be able to threaten deportation as a union busting tacit.
In addition, it must be noted that people have fled dictatorships that the US government propped up. If economic refugee was a category, this would be fitting. Instead of spending billions of dollars in military aid this money could be spent on our healthcare.
Of course we didn’t even begin to discuss immigrants from India, who on average are more educated than Americans.
The day that the New York Times ran a front page news article with a photograph of John Sweeney announcing that organized labor was unified behind immigration reform I was enormously proud to be affiliated with the labor movement. Passing immigration reform is critical to the protection of all workers’ economic welfare. Setting aside the debate of how immigrants came to this country in recent years or where they came from, the unassailable fact remains that unless and until we pass immigration reform, undocumented immigrant workers will be exploited, and that exploitation adversely impacts all American workers.
Regarding the purported ‘drain’ of immigrants on our economy, the fact remains that regardless of their legal status immigrants pay taxes and do so to “our” benefit; studies indicate that immigrants’ contributions to the tax payment system exceed the costs of services they use. To date, something in the range of $500 billion has accumulated in the Social Security’s “Earnings Suspense File” - an amount largely attributed to contributions by undocumented immigrants. Notably, these studies were not produced by “pro-immigration” groups or by the Obama administration; in fact, they were adopted by the Bush administration. Indeed, as stated in the section of the President’s 2005 Economic Report on Immigration: “Suming up, the economic benefits and costs of immigration shows that over time, the benefits of immigration exceed the costs…” (p. 115).
I applaud the AFL-CIO for taking a hard look at the facts and constructing a stance on immigration reform that makes sense. Based upon some of the comments posted in response to this action, it is self-evident that this is not an entirely popular stance — but based upon conclusions reached by both sides of the political fence — it is clear that it is a necessary and appropriate stance. The vast majority of Americans want immigration reform; I’m grateful to organized labor for providing a reasonable, and reasoned voice regarding what principles should infuse immigration reform in order to protect the rights and dignity of all American workers.
Again we are not anti-immigrant,we are anti illegal immigrants that have stolen and cheated their way here.Why is it that some people think we owe them something that the legal immigrant can not have.Last year we nationalized 1,046,539 legal immigrants and this year we will do about the same.It seems to me we have plenty of immigrants and no one wants them kicked out.Why should law breakers and thieves get a leg up just because they are here.We average 680,000 applications for legal immigration a year the biggest percentage from Mexico. I fully believe that is more than enough.Lets enforce our laws and make sure E-Verify becomes the law of the land.We have 7 million people jobless now and we are losing about a half a million a month.What are you going to do with 12 to 20 million new citizens?Our politicans will legalize every last one of them in hopes of a few votes unless we stop them.California is a prime example of what happens when your social systems look out for the wrong people.
Our immigrantion system is not broken and it does not need reformed,the only reason it doesn’t work is our government has never enforced the law.Congress passed these immigration laws now they want you to believe they had nothing to do with them.
Thank you Dr. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Just because we’re against the invasion of our country by illegals we are deemed to be anti-immigrant and racist. Those labels come from pro-illegal groups who want to see the illegals rewarded for ‘breaking into’ our country. We already admit more legal immigrants yearly than every other country in the world combined. Why should we be expected to also ‘embrace’ those who choose to enter illegally? We must continue to email, call, write and fax our politicians to let them know that we don’t need immigration reform. We need our borders secured by any means necessary and once that’s done we need immigration ENFORCEMENT!
I am very disappointed. In particlar your working with La Raza. This group believes that the Soutwestern United States should be given to Mexico.
I do not see how, when 14 million US workers are unemployed, that immigration should be increased. This in the light of black unemployment being at 40%.
I think if you expanded your daily reading to more then the daily rant of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, you might understand the reasoning behind immigration reform. Obviously, E-Verify isn’t the solution, it allows employers the ability to control what information the government gets about their own employees, and if your an unscrupulous employer, only worried about your profit margin, then its worth while for you to keep illegal immigrants around. You don’t have to pay taxes on them, you don’t have to give them health insurance, you can pay them a 1/3 what an American gets paid. AND all because these employers have total control over these workers, as they have no recourse if their employer don’t pay them or makes them apart of dangerous or illegal activities, because if they do the employer will alert the government and they’ll be deported.
It is these employers that have created the demand for cheap labor, which is filled by illegal immigrants. It is these employers that fire AMERICANS in order to higher cheaper workers. It is true that illegal immigrates, are illegal, but why would they come to a country if there where no jobs available to them.
What immigration reform aims to do is to stop the abuses of thousands of employers, help create saver work environments for ALL employees, with better wages and benefits. It is to create job security for AMERICANS who are slowly watching their jobs taken by both legal and illegal immigrants, not because they are better at their job, but because the EMPLOYER see a profit, because these workers are CHEAPER. It is to accurately reform the visa and green card allotments, which are constantly abused by employers to lower industry wages and push AMERICANS out of jobs.
This is not reform to open the gates to America, its reform to better regulate the gates, as well as track immigrants once they have enter. Think about it, why are these illegal immigrants being hired???? AND who are the entities using their labor for a profit? Yes, we would all like to be able to reset the clocks on immigration, but then again, so would the Native Americans. We need to remember that we are all immigrants and immigrants have historically been exploited by the businesses already established in this country. If we stop the demand by businesses for VERY cheap labor, we will stop the flow of illegal immigrants into this country.
NAFTA makes it “illegal” to earn a living in manufacturing in the United States or in agriculture in Mexico. The wealth of both nations is stolen by corporations with no loyalty to either. and working people fall into the trap of blaming this on other people who work for a living, instead of on the profiteers actually responsible.
Immigration reform should be tied to population stabilization and the preservation of the environment in our country. No matter how many people we allow in, it will never be enough for some. The citizens of the US take precedence over anyone seeking to immigrate here or gain a work visa. We must replace the growth=profit paradigm for one of quality of life. An overpopulated, sprawling and environmentally overburdened US is what we are becoming. With the economy and unemployment where it is, the tap needs to be shut.
Big Labor, the leadership hierarchy of organized labor not the members who pay the dues, is like any other Special Interest Group; just follow the money. Most Special Interest Groups are only concerned for their agenda of profit, in this case union dues, and/or power, furnish votes to their Elitist Politicians, and not the U.S. Citizens they pretend to speak for or save from harm.
Just follow the money. Big Labor is the same as any other Elitist Political Contributors and their Elitist Politicians they are in it for the money and power and could care less for the men and women in the plants, on the factory floor, on the farms, or the offices. The purpose is to pull in dues for themselves and guarantee votes for their Elitist Politicians.
Just another step in the march by our past, and current Presidents from Papa Bush including Clinton and Baby Bush thru Obama to establish the North American Union. Unload goods from Asia in Mexican ports onto Mexican trucks transported not inspected into the United States via the T.T.C., or what ever the name happens to become, never touched by those pesky American Workers. Supported by Big Labor, Elitist Politicians, Chamber of Commerce and their Elitist Political Contributor! Just follow the money!
I believe it is safe to say; just follow the money to understand the support the Pro-ILLEGAL groups have for the ILLEGALS.
ILLEGALS, ILLEGAL EMPLOYERS, and ILLEGAL UNIONS should all receive HEAVY Fines and Felony Jail Time if they conspire to have ILLEGALS take the jobs of United States Citizens
BSaget,dear sir your handle says it all BULLSH??.
To those that believe Nafta started all of this,I say we have had an illegal immigration problem from south of the border long before Nafta was ever concieved.I won’t say it is not a problem because it is the real problem is, people that think they have the God given right to come here illegally and their supporters all of which have some agenda other than what is good for Legal Citizens.
Lets reiterate. Trillions, literally trillions of dollars are being unregulated by the feds - of our tax money!!. Angry Americans have a common enemy and its not immigrants. Who made bad loans? Who is still profiting off making bad loans? Perhaps Geithner can answer some of these questions for us. Anybody here in favor of bailouts to the citizens instead of the banks? I have not yet heard one economist blame this crisis on immigrants. Why? because its not true.
Good come back. I am glad intellectual conversation has gotten so far in life.
So your telling me that all we need to do is have E-Verify and all of the immigrants will go away? I found that hard to believe, why would an employer, whose only interest is to make a profit, turn away laborers that he could pay pennies rather then an American he would have to pay at least minimum wage. It’s not that E-Verify is a bad idea, it’s that it gives the wrong people control over it. If its purely up to employers to check if their employees to see if they are illegal or not through E-Verify. Shouldn’t they have been doing that already?
E-Verify works when used. The problem is not enough employers use it. If our government would get off their butts and make E-Verify permanent and mandatory for ALL employers it would work. And no, it would not make immigrants go away. But it would make it impossible, or at least nearly so, for illegals to find employment so it might make them go away. And that is, after all, what we want. Right?
Dear Mr.Saget you do not seem to understand E-Verify,the employer should be made to check his potential employees status before he hires them.Right now it is a voluntary system it is 99.9% effective takes about 5minutes to do and cost the employer nothing.It just gives the employer a way to check if he has been given a valid Social Security Number or a bogus or stolen one.I’m not saying that it will cure our problem but it goes a long way in preventing part of it.Why should anyone fight against this system?The only reason i can think of it prevents illegal immigrants from gaining employent in my name or yours.It should be required of all employers to check legal status.As far as intellectual conversion goes I do not listen to Rush or Ann they are both Republican IDIOTS and you really should check up on E-Verify before you decide we don’t need it.
Because E-Verify really–WORKS–and is efficient, we must understand why it is delayed, weakened or even killed? The free traders, open border cartels don’t like it. It cuts into their enormous profits of using cheap labor? The corporate world, the giant agricultural consortium’s, don’t want pay for for the schooling, health care or the undisclosed benefits that illegal aliens tap into—that’s the responsibility of –YOU–the taxpayer? How dare you decide that employers should pay for anything at all? Except for a minimum wage if illegal laborers are lucky? Why should they pay their share, when it can be off-loaded onto the gullible American.
If we are forced into another AMNESTY, then the consequences will be on a financial cataclysmic scale. Not only will our taxes spiral up, but we can expect millions of family members to follow on, under the family reunification act. Once here the senile, handicapped can tap into our overwhelmed social security, that will hurt senior citizens and our broken health care system. But that is just the start?
Millions of more impoverished, uneducated who have been patiently waiting just across the border, will pour into America looking for a third amnesty and more welfare handouts. We have seen the crash of the great state of California, with their lawmakers scrambling for an answer to a 47 billion dollar deficit that has been partly caused by it’s Sanctuary State policies. Our own children are held to ransom in overcrowded classrooms, where the second language is English. Let foreign governments educate their children, not the American taxpayer. Hold these Democrats feet to the fire in hopes of keeping their job? Sen. Reid, Speaker Pelosi, Sen. Feinstein, Napolitano and all the involved in dropping E-Verify, and undoubtedly using it as a pawn to pass another taxpayers nightmare AMNESTY? It’s carefully placed ruse to lower American wages for the free movement of cheap labor in our nation.
OVERPOPULATION will be our future, with all the environmental concerns that are minimal now. But will accelerates to a massive overload of traffic congestion, pollution and shortages of everything including energy and drinking water.
We must demand the use of E-verify, that will send illegal labor packing. All employers must receive mandatory prison sentences, for they are the parasites that attract cheap labor. Illegal Immigration effects everybody, your taxes, your jobs, your language, your culture, your moral integrity, your religion. YOU CAN MAKE AN IMMENSE DIFFERENCE? Senate & Representative for your contact at: (202) 224-3121: THESE PEOPLE ARE YOUR PUBLIC SERVANTS AND
SWORE AN OATH TO YOU?. Demand E-Verify today. SAY NO TO AMNESTY! Look for honest facts at NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIALWATCH.
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You are ranting. And you don’t make sense. You sound like a tea-bagger. Take a deep breath and chill out.
I’m assuming you are not a trade unionist. Because, if you were, you wouldn’t be asking anyone to get “honest facts” from NumbersUSA or Judicial Watch, groups that are part of a network supported by foundations that are xenophobic, anti-union, and anti everything that would help working people. Asking trade unionists, who are the majority of visitors to this website, to visit these Heritage Foundation funded organizations, is like asking supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act to visit Unionfacts.org to get their information. Wrong move.
Workers in the U.S. have been fighting corporate driven government policy for many years. With the advent of globalization, it has been fighting these policies that seem to be on steroids.
All trade unionists agree that U.S. workers have faced displacement from our trade policies. We also know that workers overseas have also been displaced, in fact, much more than U.S. workers. We have 12 million unauthorized immigrants. There are 200 million worldwide. Not much argument here.
All trades unionists agree that our labor and employment laws have been deformed in order to protect corporate interests. This is why the labor movement is pushing hard for the Employee Free Choice Act and for the strengthening of the Dept of Labor. 8 years of Elaine Chao has been 8 years too many of corporate driven employment policies.
Our current immigration laws support a corporate agenda that can be described as simply a low-wage strategy. Corporate America uses U.S. labor and employment laws to exploit U.S. workers, then further drives down standards by using our immigration laws to exploit immigrant workers.
There is a theme here. Get it? Our lives are being manipulated by a corporate driven agenda that pits worker against worker, immigrant versus U.S. born, union versus non-union, worker versus consumer, public worker versus tax payer, etc. Workers are fighting eachother while the boss walks off with super profits.
According to your rantings, it is not corporate america that is causing so much grief to U.S. workers but immigrants. Our taxes will sky rocket, our health and education systems will collapse. Our language will disappear as well as our culture, integrity, morality, and religion. Really?
Who caused the current economic meltdown? Was it immigrants that sold sub-prime mortgages to Americans that wanted a piece of the American Dream? Was it immigrants that bundled them and sold them off? Was it immigrants that de-regulated the financial sector? Does Corporate America lobby immigrants to pass free trade deals? Are immigrants spending millions of dollars in order to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act? Do undocumented workers sit on corporate boards that determine executive compensation? Are immigrants preventing Americans from buying U.S. built cars? Are immigrants lobbying against regulating green house gases? Did immigrants receive the bank bailout money? Did immigrants lie to the world about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Did immigrants write the “torture memos”? Did Madoff get his schemes from a day laborer? Are immigrants the force behind our broken, coporate driven health care system?
Let’s focus on who is really causing our most pressing problems. Stop trying to divide workers across legal status. No labor is cheap. The only ones who make it cheap are the bosses.
Oh, and another thing. E-Verify doesn’t work. Remember all of those raids at Swift poultry plants and the Pilgrim Pride plants where thousands of workers were detained? They were using E-Verify. If E-Verify works, why did ICE raid them? By the way, because the companies participated in this voluntary program, they have immunity and the workers are taken away in handcuffs. Welcome to corporate driven immigration policy.
FYI: immigrants are welcomed in this country. Illegals are NOT. Immigrants and illegals are NOT the same thing. A true immigrant does the paperwork, pays the fees and waits his/her turn to enter our country. An illegal slinks in under cover of darkness or crammed into a vehicle much like the one that crashed yesterday in AZ killing several of the occupants. I believe it was reported there were a total of twenty four people in the SUV! If those people had not been trying to circumvent our immigration laws they would still be alive. Illegal entry into our country hurts EVERYONE! We DO NOT need immigration reform. We need impenetrable borders and immigration ENFORCEMENT!
Today, Obama plans to sign an Executive Order allowing illegal aliens who are currently using stolen Social Security numbers to keep their jobs, even their Federal contract jobs, and to gut EVerify. If an illegal alien uses a citizen’s Social Security number, the illegal’s income is reported to the IRS as taxable income for the citizen! The illegal also then doesn’t report the income when applying for government benefits, and therefore qualifies for more benefits under a (fraudulently) reduced income.
The Department of Homeland Security plans to issue rules today that would give tons of loopholes through which unscrupulous employers can continue hiring their cheap, illegal labor instead of Americans.
Further, the no-match Social Security letters, which alerts innocent Americans that criminals and/or illegal aliens are using their Social Security number, is also being gutted today.
It is appalling that the AFL-CIO is backing this Executive Order, which will keep millions of U.S. citizens from obtaining jobs that are currently held by illegal aliens and will encourage more illegal aliens to invade the U.S. so that we, hardworking Union members, have to support them along with our own families.
EVerify ensures that illegal aliens are not able to keep jobs - and those jobs then become available to Americans and legal immigrants. As I’m sure you are aware, the reason the raids last year rounded up so many illegal aliens is because the EVerify system no-match letters, which would have informed those employers that many of their employees were using false and stolen Social Security numbers, were not allowed to be mailed due to a legal maneuver by pro-illegal immigrant activists. Therefore, EVerify was effectively not being used at the raided plans.
http://www.numbersusa.org is full of easily-verifiable, well-sourced documentation on how illegal aliens are decimating America. This organization is welcoming to those of all nationalities who have a legal presence in the U.S. The website has a link to send faxes expressing your opposition to allowing illegal aliens to keep American jobs.
This is the day that we can insist our legislators take back American jobs for American workers and legal immigrants.