Immigration Fight Simmered During Stimulus Negotiations

Immigration Groups Fought Over House Amendment to Require Employers Verify Worker Status

Among the many provisions of the $800–plus billion stimulus bill that were hotly debated and horse-traded behind closed doors, one that remained largely under the radar through the negotiations would have forced employers receiving stimulus money to use a controversial federal computer system to verify that all of its employees are legal U.S. workers. Although preliminary indications are that the requirement did not make it into the final version, the ... Full Story »

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Kenneth Sibbett
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by Kenneth Sibbett - Feb. 12, 2009

If E-Verify is the only thing that the conservatives can come up with, this country's in bad shape. To try and process 7.4 million immigrants with this type of computerized wizardly is ridiculous.

Just training the people to use this should bring in 3 million jobs.

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