| Congress Has Only Themselves To Blame |
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| Written by Kevin Ecker |
| Thursday, 25 September 2008 00:36 |
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I think I'll be the only blogger on the planet today that isn't bitching about the economy when I bitching about Congress. No my bitching is about my pet issue....illegal immigration. We've known for a long time that E-Verify was going to expire in November if Congress didn't reauthorize it. Instead of making progress on this, Congress has done the exact opposite. There is a bill (HR 6633) floating around that would re-authorize E-Verify and all the Senate has to do is vote on it. Congress is scheduled to adjourn after this week, and this is the last change to re-authorize E-Verify before it expires. And since Congress is busy dealing with bailout after bailout, it is unlikely they will get around to authorizing E-Verify. As a result, we will lose one of the best tools we have to fight illegal immigration due entirely to Congressional incompetence. The leader of that incompetence is Senator Menendez who has placed a block on that HR 6633, which would reauthorize E-Verify. In fact, Senator Menendez is uping the ante on his block. He's release his block if we allow 550,000 more foreign workers in the US, in addition to the 1.1 million already scheduled to arrive. Our economy is experiencing quite a bit of trouble right now. Instead of at least ensuring a level playing field for Americans in the job market, Congress is going to allow illegal immigrants to have the upper hand competing for jobs. With a five-year high in unemployment rates, are more foreign workers really the answer we need!? And it doesn't help that both of our Presidential candidates are trying to out-amnesty each other. Both declaring that their version of amnesty will be bigger and more repulsive than the others. This despite clear public support for enforcing the border rather than passing amnesty. I'd love to tell you that we have a chance to save E-Verify, but I'd just be blowing smoke up your ass. And with it being Election Season, you're getting enough of that as it is. So I'll just tell you that it is important that the Senate realize the public view on all this. You can let Senator Menendez what you think by calling him at the following numbers: DC Office - (202) 224-4744 Minnesotans you can also call your Senators at: Senator Coleman (202) 224-5641 And then you can call Senate leadership at: Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-NV) (202) 224-2158 Otherwise the Senate Switchboard can be reached at (202) 224-3121. [Crossposted at EckerNet.Com, comments welcome] |
