Free faxes to push Senate & House E-Verify bills -- we're on a roll‏

An urgent post from http://www.numbersusa.com/ about E-verify being passed in the House and Senate! This follows this post about the GOP presidential debate on Monday. This follows this post about immigration enforcememt being blocked in North Carolina. This follows this post about congressional redistricting and this follows this post which shows that there are 30,000 openly illegal immigrants in the border town of El Paso, where President Barack Obama recently bashed immigration enforcement! On a related note, you can read about Miss Kentucky Latina here, an interesting article about Jessica Alba here or another article about Salma Hayek here. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

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Free faxes to push Senate & House E-Verify bills -- we're on a roll‏



From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA



FIRST TIME THIS YEAR, THERE IS A MANDATORY E-VERIFY BILL

TO PUSH IN THE SENATE



YOUR SENATORS NEED YOUR FAXES NOW!



Over In U.S. House, Hearing Moves Chairman's E-Verify Bill Forward -- Send Free Fax Asking Your Rep. To Co-Sponsor



Open-borders leaders in Congress this morning were in a panic saying they fear that a national mandatory E-Verify bill will become law this year.



Perhaps it was the sight of so much business lobby support for E-Verify at a hearing of the House immigration subcommittee. Yes, law-abiding businesses were begging Congress to force their competitors to stop hiring cheap foreign labor and having taxpayers subsidize them. (National Restaurant Association and National Association of Homebuilders, plus a letter of support from U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- all of these endorsing mandatory national E-Verify!)



ACTION: Please go to your Action Board now and send free faxes asking your U.S. Representative to co-sponsor H.R. 2164 (the Legal Workforce Act introduced yesterday by Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee).



And you'll also find faxes to send to your Senators asking them to co-sponsor another bill introduced yesterday by Sen. Grassley of Iowa (S. 1196) which would even more vigorously force the hiring of American workers over illegal foreign ones.



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FINALLY, WE CAN START BUILDING SUPPORT IN THE SENATE



Until this moment, it has been difficult to really hold the new Senate accountable on illegal immigration because there hasn't been a mandatory E-Verify bill to insist that they co-sponsor.



Now, you can truly know who stands with illegal workers and the outlaw businesses that hire them and who stands with U.S. workers and the law-abiding businesses.



Perhaps most interesting is that the freshman Senator from Florida, Marco Rubbio, who is being so closely watched because he is Hispanic is one of the original co-sponsors on Grassley's bill, which is probably the toughest workplace enforcement bill ever introduced.



Also already signed onto the bill are both Senators from Utah (Lee and Hatch) where the legislature passed its own amnesty bill for illegal aliens. Utah citizens apparently think illegal workers should leave rather than stay, based on what the U.S. Senators seem to know about them.



The full list of original Republican signers of the Grassley bill are:

BOOZMAN of Arkansas

COBURN of Oklahoma

CORKER of Tennessee

GRASLEY of Iowa

HATCH of Utah

LEE of Utah

RUBIO of Florida

SESSIONS of Alabama

VITTER of Louisiana

WICKER of Mississippi



Thanks for helping grow that list.



MAIN BALL IS ROLLING IN THE U.S. HOUSE -- HERE ARE THE KEY WAYS THAT THE HOUSE BILL WOULD EXPAND WORKPLACE ENFORCEMENT OVER WHAT THE STATES CURRENTLY ARE DOING



Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Arizona's mandatory E-Verify law, we at NumbersUSA have heard a modest but steady stream of comments from people questioning if it wouldn't be better to skip having a national E-Verify law and stick with state laws to push illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs.



Certainly, we have to acknowledge that we would not right now have the possibility of a national E-Verify law passing if it weren't for the valiant efforts of many state legislators across the nation who -- often with the help of attorney, and now Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach -- fought tirelessly and tenaciously for years to pass E-Verify laws in states while Congress fiddled.



But the goal has always been to use state efforts to force Congress to act nationally.



After all, does anybody believe that the state governments in California, Illinois, New York and a number of other virtual sanctuary states will ever require E-Verify? The only hope for people in those states (which not coincidentally have the largest populations of illegal aliens) is a national law.



H.R. 2164 will be the primary legislative vehicle for change because it has been introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) who is Chairman of the Judiciary Committee which handles immigration and because his Party is in power in the House.



The Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2164) is not a perfect bill for us because it has been negotiated to make a few concessions to obtain the support of national business lobbies (rather than their using their considerable resources to try to defeat mandatory E-Verify as they have always done in the past).



But H.R. 2164 offers much to celebrate.



E-VERIFY FOR NEW HIRES

99% of all hirings for U.S. jobs of any kind would have to be run through E-Verify within 2 years.



(Only 6 states come close to this requirement.)



(44 states don't require E-Verify for any private employers of any size unless they have government contracts.)





After 2 years, even employers of just ONE worker will have to use E-Verify, getting at the day laborers and other parts of the underground economy.



(Only 4 states have laws as good as this -- 46 states don't.)





100% of all state, county and city hirings would have to be run through E-Verify within 6 MONTHS.



(Current state laws affect an estimated 30% of state employee hirings nationwide and 12% of local government hirings.)





100% of all hirings by state government private contractors would have to be run through E-Verify within 6 MONTHS.



(That compares with around 25% of all state contractor hirings nationally under current state laws.)





Would make into law the very good executive action that Pres. Obama took in 2009 mandating E-Verify for all federal contractors (added to all federal employees).

FIRING ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO ALREADY HAVE JOBS

-- 3 HUGE NEW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS

States are prohibited by current federal law from requiring employers to deal with illegal aliens who are already on their payroll.



H.R. 2164 brings a huge increase of enforcement into the states by creating two big dragnets to identify and remove illegal aliens from their jobs.



No. 1: Multiple-Workplace Notification -- Going After Identity Thieves



(No state has a law that goes after illegal aliens who get jobs by stealing identities.)



E-Verify's biggest weakness is that it fails to catch most illegal aliens who have paid big money to steal identities of U.S. citizens and other legal workers.



This provision in Lamar Smith's bill goes beyond E-Verify to close this loophole and catch perhaps the worst of the illegal workers, while alerting citizens so they can recover their stolen identities.



The bill:



1. requires the Social Security Administration once a year to identify all matching Social Security numbers and names that are being used at multiple workplaces (some are used at dozens and even hundreds of workplaces).



2. creates a system for the real owner of the name and SS number to contact SSA and establish ownership and where that person actually works.



3. requires SSA to notify all employers (other than of the true owner of the name) for a process that will result in the firing of the workers falsely using that name and SS number (although experience suggests that most of those illegal aliens will stop showing up for work once they get the notification letter from SSA).



No. 2: No-Match Notification -- Going After Fictitious Identities



(No state has a law that achieves any comparable effect.)



The bill requires SSA's computers to identify every payroll worker who is using:



(a) a SS number that doesn't exist

(b) a SS number that doesn't match the name in the system

(c) a number that isn't a SS number

(d) other irregularities involving the SS number and information about that worker



After giving those workers a few days to straighten out any errors about them in the system, the employer is required to fire the ones who can't do so (in other words, fire the illegal aliens and also legal visitors who don't have the right to work).



No. 3: Ensuring that Foreign Workers Who Lose Their Right to Work Cannot Continue Working Anyway



(No state has a law that achieves any comparable effect.)



The bill requires SSA to essentially deactivate the SS number of an alien whose visa expires, or who is deported or required to leave the United States, so that number cannot continue to be used to gain employment.



The bill also requires DHS to notify employers of temporary workers when those workers' visas are about to expire, so the employer knows they must re-run those workers through E-Verify if they plan to continue their employment, thus ensuring that those whose work authorization has been extended may continue working, but others will be terminated.



BEEFING UP ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL LAWS AGAINST EMPLOYING ILLEGAL ALIENS



Chairman Smith's bill would impose big increases in penalties for businesses that continue to hire illegal aliens.



(a) up to $25,000 fine per illegal worker



(b) minimum prison sentences of one-year for offending employers



I should tell you that everything great in the details above are even better in the Grassley Senate bill.



THE COMPROMISES IN THE CHAIRMAN'S NATIONAL E-VERIFY BILL



Obviously from the above, you can see that most of H.R. 2164 is fantastic.



But when I said Monday that Rep. Smith's bill is the "most important" E-Verify legislation ever, I did not mean that it is the "best ever."



Mr. Smith's bill is "most important" because it has a real chance of getting through House, Senate and the White House and becoming law THIS YEAR. It has a chance because it isn't the "best" and instead involves some compromises to remove some key opposition that could keep it from reaching the finish line.



It is always critical to remember that a perfect bill that does NOT become law helps nobody.



H.R. 2164 does have a couple of significant compromises that were thought to be necessary to turn the extremely powerful business lobbies from aggressive opponents into supporters of the legislation.



Would the country be better off with this "compromise" national legislation or with having no national legislation and continue to rely solely on state laws?



I think the description of the bill's attributes above suggest a resounding reason to support H.R. 2164 as the vehicle for the national mandate we have sought since NumbersUSA was founded in 1996.



I discuss the details of the two compromise items in my blog. Go to my blog to get more details on the pros and cons of the bill and to ask further questions. The NumbersUSA staff will try to respond quickly.



The bottom line is that 7 states with the toughest state workplace immigration laws would have some minuses to go with the pluses of H.R. 2164. But 43 states would have immediate and incredibly broad improvements in the reduction of illegal alien workers in their states.



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