CongressDaily July 7, 2009
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., Tuesday offered an amendment to the fiscal 2010 Homeland Security appropriations bill that would require contractors to verify the legal status of their workers in order to do business with the federal government.
Sessions' amendment was the first offered to the bill, which the Senate began debating Tuesday morning. The bill would provide the department about $43 billion in discretionary spending, or about 7 percent more than current year spending. Sessions' amendment would require contractors to use the Homeland Security Department's E-Verify system, an online tool that allows employers to check the Social Security number and immigration status of workers.
A federal rule originally proposed by the Bush administration was supposed to go into effect earlier this year that would require contractors to use E-Verify, but the Obama administration has delayed it twice.
The rule is now not scheduled to take effect until Sept. 8. Sessions' amendment also would permanently authorize E-Verify, which expires this fall.
The underlying bill would reauthorize E-Verify for three years.
[emphasis added Ed NAC]
On another note:
Krispy Kreme fined for hiring illegal workers
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc has reached a $40,000 fine settlement for violating immigration laws by hiring illegal immigrants, U.S. immigration police said Tuesday.
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, said an inspection revealed the company had employed dozens of unauthorized workers at a doughnut factory in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The audit found the firm did not have required paperwork for all workers at the plant. The fine was settled last Friday, ICE said.
As part of the settlement, Krispy Kreme has taken measures to revise its immigration compliance program, and has agreed to begin implementing new procedures to prevent future violations of federal immigration laws, ICE said.
Immigration, particularly what to do with 12 million illegal immigrants living and working in the shadows, is a divisive topic in the United States.
Earlier this year, President Barack Obama's administration broke with a previous policy that targeted undocumented workers for deportation, and implemented instead a strategy to go after U.S. employers hiring illegal immigrants.
ICE announced last week, that 652 businesses around the country would be audited to establish if they were compliant with immigration laws.
The federal probe found that a third of American Apparel's factory workers in the Los Angeles area had supplied suspect or invalid records and were not authorized to work in the United States.
[emphasis added Ed NAC]
2 comments:
In the Senate--NOW--the legislators are voting on E-Verify? Call your Senator and--DEMAND--E-Verify NOW--as a permanent tool! 202-224-3121
This is the right time to release a bombardment of general public voices on any Senator or Congressman around the country. Do not relieve the harsh pressure on either party to--MANDATE PERMANENTLY E-VERIFY? Our voices, faxes, emails and phone calls are burning up the wavelengths, demanding E-Verify? Not on a voluntary basis--BUT FOREVER. Not just for new employees, but for everyone who gets a paycheck, old and new? This symbolizes to me that the--AMERICAN WORKER--is being recognized? That our public servants in Washington have been hesitant to cut funding, or even reduce the power of E-Verification system that identifies and removes illegal labor from the workplace. This law must be enforced with heavy handed sentences of all employers who ignore the easy computer check?
All inconsistencies can be rectified at the Social Security office, not a place were illegal immigrant labor will dare to venture?
Removing illegal aliens from the country by orderly ATTRITION-would save our nation plenty--plus give jobs back--rid us of more criminals--stop chain migration and the immediate beginning of OVERPOPULATION.
Perhaps after all the ACLU, US Chamber of Commerce, special interest lobby are not going to win this time? Thank heavens we have a few relentless patriotic AMERICANS, such Senator Sessions who have been determined to undermine the open border, free trader zealots, who want uncompromising illegal cheap labor? In the incumbent elections we should make an example of all politicians, who defy the publics demands. Letting up now will just give them enough leeway, to use E-Verify in the future as bargain chip, in the ongoing discussion for AMNESTY. We have the immense power and we must use it? For more details go to NUMBERSUSA, CAPSWEB & AMERICAN PATROL. Not liberal newspaper lies, but facts. YOU DECIDE IF YOU WANT AN OVERPOPULATED FUTURE?
Hey Brittanicus, In the past I've done more than my share in trying to make E-Verify a permanent Law, since nothing else worked.
Politicians do not and will not listen to pee-ons like myself and most of the public in America. Ive been fighting the illegal alien battle since 2000, and have become weary. I still battle illegal immigration online and am familiar with the sites you mention.
What is going on in the house right now as you state, is just smoke and mirrors. They will not pass this law. If they were, there would be no debate about it.
Sorry for the negativity, but its the truth.
Check out the category list on the left sidebar for related topics on this issue and the NAU.
Thanks for your comment, it is much appreciated.
ED
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