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		<title>Stop worrying about illegal immigration</title>
		<link>http://chuck-thompson.com/2009/10/stop-worrying-about-illegal-immigration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who sneak over the border or overstay their visas generally do it to seek employment. Obamas plan to turn the US into Zimbabwe will keep out the illegal immigrants. After all, you don&#8217;t see anyone sneaking over the border into Zimbabwe do you? In fact, lets compare Barack Obama to Robert Mugabe. From Wikipedia: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those who sneak over the border or overstay their visas generally do it to seek employment.  Obamas plan to turn the US into Zimbabwe will keep out the illegal immigrants.  After all, you don&#8217;t see anyone sneaking over the border into Zimbabwe do you?</p>
<p>In fact, lets compare Barack Obama to Robert Mugabe.</p>
<blockquote><p>From Wikipedia: Mugabe&#8217;s government supported the Southern African Development Community&#8217;s intervention in the Second Congo War; expropriated thousands of white-owned farms; printed hundreds of trillions of Zimbabwean dollars, causing hyperinflation; and harassed and intimidated such political opponents as the Movement for Democratic Change.<br />
Mugabe has described his critics as &#8220;born again colonialists&#8221;, and both he and his supporters claim Zimbabwe&#8217;s problems are the legacy of imperialism, aggravated by Western economic meddling.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama&#8217;s government supports ACORN&#8217;s intervention in the Mortgage Banking industry, the Internal Revenue Service and HUD. Obama has expropriated major financial, insurance and manufacturing businesses; prints trillions of dollars, which will soon cause hyperinflation; and harasses and intimidates such political opponents as FOX News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.</p>
<p>Obama regularly denounces his critics, sometimes engages in name-calling, and both he and his supporters claim America&#8217;s problems are the legacy of racial prejudice, aggravated by personal and corporate greed.</p>
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		<title>its about time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Chris Strohm writing for the  National Journal A coalition of business groups continued to wage a legal battle today as a government mandate took effect requiring federal contractors to verify the immigration status of employees working on government projects. Of course the ACLU has a problem with this.  The Washington Independent quotes an ACLU statement: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>From <a style="font-weight: bold; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" onclick="s_objectID=&quot;mailto:cstrohm@nationaljournal.com_1&quot;;return this.s_oc?this.s_oc(e):true" href="mailto:cstrohm@nationaljournal.com"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #888888;">Chris Strohm</span></span></span></a> writing for the  <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/congressdaily/cdp_20090908_4110.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #888888;">National Journal</span></span></span></a></p>
<p>A coalition of business groups continued to wage a legal battle today as a government mandate took effect requiring federal contractors to verify the immigration status of employees working on government projects.</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course the ACLU has a problem with this.  <a href="In the middle of the toughest job market in decades, the administration has chosen to erect another roadblock to gainful employment for U.S. workers. Mandating all federal contractors to use E-Verify could encourage contractors to fire workers based on erroneous database discrepancies and to avoid hiring workers who are perceived to be foreign born. This flawed Bush-era policy, now adopted by the current administration, will only hurt the American workforce without improving our nation’s immigration enforcement practices." target="_blank">The Washington Independent</a> quotes an ACLU statement:</p>
<blockquote><p>In the middle of the toughest job market in decades, the administration has chosen to erect another roadblock to gainful employment for U.S. workers. Mandating all federal contractors to use E-Verify could encourage contractors to fire workers based on erroneous database discrepancies and to avoid hiring workers who are perceived to be foreign born. This flawed Bush-era policy, now adopted by the current administration, will only hurt the American workforce without improving our nation’s immigration enforcement practices.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;U.S. workers&#8221; is obfuscation of the facts.  What they are talking about here are illegal aliens, not legal aliens and US Citizens.</p>
<p>This program is a good thing for our country, our unemployed workers and our economy.  If workers are here illegally they should not be employed.  Period.  The stats for the success of the re-configured e-verify are acceptable.  From the <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112647702" target="_blank">NPR site</a>:</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; font-size: 0.85em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Years Of Refining The Program</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; font-size: 0.85em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The rule does give companies 30 days after a contract is awarded to enroll employees.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; font-size: 0.85em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Spokesman Bill Wright of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that administers E-Verify, says the Web site is quicker and more precise than older methods.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; font-size: 0.85em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Earlier versions were not so accurate: At one point 20 percent of all workers were flagged as illegal. But after years of refining the program, Wright says, the rate is down to 3 percent. And less than one-tenth of those are mistakes, such as wrong numbers or wrong names, rather than illegal workers.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.25em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; font-size: 0.85em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">&#8220;That basically means 2.8 percent — just under the 3 — were found to be not authorized to work in the United States,&#8221; Wright says. &#8220;Translation: E-Verify system works. That&#8217;s exactly what it&#8217;s supposed to do.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: normal;">Predictably, some people are unhappy about it.  Unhappy because it will either cost them money to check the legality of their existing workforce or cost them money to hire legal American workers to replace the illegal aliens who are currently working for them <em>on government projects</em>.  Very patiriotic don&#8217;t you think?  Maybe if they didn&#8217;t hire illegal aliens in the first place they wouldn&#8217;t have this problem &#8211; because WE wouldn&#8217;t have this problem.  Quit whining and play by the rules.  It is especially egregious to me that illegal aliens are working for government contractors.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: normal;">This system should be required by every employer in the United States. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> And severe penalties should come into play if illegals are hired.  If the didn&#8217;t have jobs, they&#8217;d go back where they came from and maybe our healthcare system wouldn&#8217;t be overtaxed and ridiculously priced to cover the cost of illegal alien who use it and don&#8217;t pay.  If the illegaliens are removed the picture, there are enough jobs available bring unemployment down to normal levels.  They would voluntarily remove themselves if they couldn&#8217;t work here.  We wouldn&#8217;t have to round them up.  At the borders we could concentrate on terrorists, drugs and gang members instead of being overwhelmed with trying to hold back the tsunami of illegaliens coming here to take jobs from Americans and suck dry the healthcare system.</span></h3>
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