Stop the lies about E-Verify -- How NPR turned 0.3% into 20.0%‏

An urgent post from www.NumbersUSA.com about E-Verify falsehoods. This follows this post about state immigration enforcement efforts in Texas. 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!

NPR's 2 FALSEHOODS ON E-VERIFY ERROR RATES THAT YOU CAN CORRECT WHEREVER YOU HEAR THEM IN THE FUTURE




We have a blog on our website that deals with huge whoppers of falsehoods that National Public Radio recently promulgated against E-Verify.



With two Supreme Court rulings in three weeks backing the expansion of E-Verify to drive illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs, the multi-milion-dollar pro-illegal-worker propaganda industry is in full force.



We need you to challenge falsehoods about E-Verify wherever you find them -- with comments on blogs and on-line news items, with phone-ins to radio shows, with letters to the editor in newspapers and with in-person corrections with friends and colleagues.



And please forward this email widely via email, Facebook and Twitter.



We're picking on NPR because it has been getting worse and worse in its coverage of immigration issues. The story in question was about the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Arizona's law requiring all employers to use E-Verify.



Falsehood #1



The correspondent inexplicably said, "Now, E-verify is a sort of a pilot computer-data-check system that Congress specifically made voluntary because about one out of five workers is erroneously reported as illegal because of mistaken name spellings, similar names, things like that."



Congress did not make E-Verify voluntary because of an error rate. E-Verify was originally made voluntary because it was a pilot program. It has remained mostly voluntary against the wishes of American voters because the cheap labor lobby had been incredibly successful at keeping it that way until several states stepped up to the plate. But this is a small mistake compared to the "one out of five" whopper.



Falsehood #2



See quote above about the one-in-five error rate.



The NPR correspondent's approximation of an error rate for E-Verify of 20% isn't even close to the truth.



The percentage of authorized workers run through E-Verify who receive tentative non-confirmations is 0.3 percent (three-tenths of one percent), and has been for at least two and a half years.



Statistics from Fiscal Year 2010, however, indicate that of the 15,640,167 E-Verify cases submitted:

98.3% were automatically confirmed as work authorized,





0.3% were confirmed as work authorized after contesting and resolving an initial nonconfirmationan avenue available to all workers





1.43% were not found work authorized (these would be illegal aliens or legal foreign visitors without a work permit -- the very people E-Verify is designed to keep out of U.S. jobs)



So, to make sure you understand, the so-called error rate is 0.3% which means that less than half of one percent of the people run through the system get a notice that they are not yet approved to work even though it turns out they do have the right to work.



Next, be clear that this 0.3% don't lose their job. Rather, they continue on their job while checking with federal authorities to find out why they are not being confirmed and getting their records straight. The fact that 0.3% of the queries produce an "error" doesn't mean that anybody who has the legal right to a job doesn't get to keep the job.



NPR did not have to read the Court's decision to get their facts straight. All they had to do was go to the USCIS website, where the most recent statistics are presented in a colorful pie chart. We don't know which source led NPR so astray, but somewhere, someone is getting high fives for pulling one over on the news team of "All Things Considered."

We hope to see a national mandatory E-Verify bill start moving through the House any week now.



The supporters of illegal immigration are nearly hysterical about this and are unleashing an incredible misinformation effort. And their main trick seems to be to lie about error rates in E-Verify.



They have been so successful in their lies about error rates that we've even seen some people and organizations that generally have been opposed to illegal immigration repeating the falsehoods.



Read the full blog and join the discussion by clicking here.
http://www.numbersusa.com/



THANKS,



-- ROY



P.S. Make sure you go to your customized Action Board and send all the free faxes there that are related to using E-Verify to open up jobs held by illegal aliens so millions of unemployed Americans can go back to work.
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Supreme Court overturns anti-Hazelton lower court ruling -- another E-Verify victory‏

An urgent post from http://www.numbersusa.com/ about the Supreme Court's latest E-Verify ruling. This follows this post about immigration Amendments in the Homeland Security Appropriations bill.  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!

SUPREME COURT SAYS COURT OF APPEALS



WAS WRONG IN BLOCKING


HAZELTON'S E-VERIFY ORDINANCE



MAYOR LOU BARLETTA'S ORDINANCE SPARKED A NATIONAL EFFORT OF LOCAL & STATES TO PASS OWN E-VERIFY LAWS



This Ruling Opens Way For A Lot More Pressure Against Illegal Foreign Workers -- 2 Weeks After Supreme Court Approved Arizona's E-Verify Law



The Associated Press has just reported that "two weeks after issuing a major ruling affirming a state's right to pass legislation cracking down on employers who knowingly hire illegal workers, the Supreme Court has voided a lower court ruling blocking a city ordinance that does the same and also targets landlords who willfully house illegals."



ACTION: Please go to your Action Board and send more faxes to your Members of Congress urging Congress to mandate E-Verify for all employers nationwide. http://www.numbersusa.com/content/action.htm


With this newest Supreme Court ruling, the pressure increases greatly on Congress to create a uniform national standard, since the coast is now clear for cities, counties and states across the nation to pass mandates on their own.



NumbersUSA members will remember the years of support that they have provided to then-Mayor Lou Barletta and the city of Hazelton, Pa., as they tried to reduce their illegal population by requiring local employers to use E-Verify.



At our May symposium for our strongest supporters, both Barletta and Hazelton's lawyer -- Kris Kobach -- spoke about what it was like to be nearly all alone in the federal courts system facing multitudes of lawyers from giant national groups opposing them.



Barletta (now the U.S. Representative from that area) and Kobach (now the Secretary of State of Kansas) talked about the signs of extreme prejudice shown by the federal judges that led to the circuit court and then the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals blocking Hazelton's law.



And they told our supporters that they remained confident that the Supreme Court would see that the little city of Hazelton knew the law better than those two lower federal courts.



This case is not over, though. The Supreme Court's action sent the case back to the Third Circuit with instructions to review the matter in light of the Supreme Court's ruling about the Arizona E-Verify law.



The Supreme Court ruling was 5-3 on Hazelton -- the same as on the Arizona case.



Kris Kobach had always argued that the Hazelton ordinance was written strictly to be in line with federal law.



Speaking to the court, representing the Immigration Reform Law Institute, Kobach said: "Hazleton's ordinances match the terms and classifications of federal immigration law and require officials to defer to federal determinations of aliens' immigration statuses. In drafting the ordinances, the city made every effort to avoid any conflict with federal immigration laws."



AP reported that that is the same argument Arizona's lawyers made when their case went before the court and is one that Chief Justice John Roberts and four of his colleagues agreed with.



"(Federal law) expressly reserves to the states the authority to impose sanctions on employers hiring unauthorized workers, through licensing and similar laws. In exercising that authority, Arizona has taken the route least likely to cause tension with federal law," Roberts wrote last month.



I hope every one of you will go to your NumbersUSA Action Board and send faxes to your Members of Congress to take advantage of the momentum created by this latest Supreme Court ruling.



Thanks,



-- ROY