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E-Verify ruling affirms burden on business

Today's News-Herald
Published Wednesday, June 1, 2011 8:37 AM MST

Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Arizona’s employee verification law is being hailed as an important step toward fuller immigration controls in this country.

The law requires employers make use of the E-Verify system to run a check on new employees’ immigration status before being hired. Employees who turn up with problems on the national database have a short period of time to document their legal status or they cannot be hired.

The high court said Arizona’s law doesn’t conflict with federal law and is therefore acceptable.

Last week’s ruling may also offer some insight on the odds of Arizona’s more sweeping immigration law passing muster with the Supreme Court.

Supporters of the law say it helps assure American jobs stay with Americans. That’s a laudable thought.

Workers in this country should indeed be legally in this country and eligible to work.

The problem with E-Verify is that it turns responsibility for enforcing the law over to businesses. Employers who don’t comply face fines and other sanctions, including the loss of their business license.

The main legal challenger to the law’s Supreme Court appeal with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which rightly contended it placed an undue burden on businesses.

In our view, employers who knowingly hire illegal workers should face penalties. The problem is that businesses should be able to assume workers are in this country legally. They would be able to do that if the federal government fulfilled its immigration responsibilities. Instead, the Arizona law punts that responsibility to business.

That’s not how it’s supposed to work.

— Today’s News-Herald

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nkfro wrote on Jun 3, 2011 5:17 AM:

" The author really missed the boat on this editorial! Business owners are not being required to do anything more than what they've been expected to do by Federal law for the past 30 years. Businesses ARE the front line in the battle against illegal immigration.They are not being asked to usurp the enforcement authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. They ARE being required to follow existing federal law or face legal consequences that go along with failing to comply by CHOOSING to employ those not legally eligible for employment in the US.
tionalization Service. "

Brittanicus wrote on Jun 1, 2011 12:58 PM:

" The Republican House are ready to optimistically impede going over the 14.5 Trillion US debt ceiling, led by the ever tough TEA PARTY leadership. We have some solid, hard working politicians as Palin, Ryan, Bachmann, and Cain who are moderate conservatives with a definite purpose, to eliminate the corruption in Washington. They are sending a threatening message to the Democrats and GOP; we are "THE PEOPLE'S" party. To begin cutting overreaching government, start cutting taxes and do the job you are paid for? Build the real fence at our Southern border and defend our national security and the US Constitution. No additional excuses from either party, start moving out illegal migrants and immigrants, by mandating E-Verify and Secure communities. Taxpayers are frustrated and there is tense atmosphere throughout our nation, from supporting the invaders from every foreign nation. (FAIR) Federation of American Immigration Reform that runs analysis for this explosive issue, projects it costs $113 billion dollars a year at the federal level that’s climbing annually? This is not tied to the expenditures of 50 States, which have their own financial burden forced on them. California, a Sanctuary state is costing its taxpayers billions and already carrying a deficit of 26 billion dollars.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich stated, “The argument that illegal’s are contributing more than they receive in government services is nonsense. Illegal immigration has had a catastrophic economic impact on Los Angeles County. Our bankrupt health care delivery system has become an HMO for the world and criminal illegal aliens are overwhelming our criminal justice system. He added, "Within this County’s health care delivery system, illegal’s are being treated at a cost of nearly $500 million dollars a year. The cost alone to our Criminal Justice system for the 25 percent of the illegal’s, that up the jail population exceeding 550 million dollars a year. Additionally, illegal’s collect over $260 million in CALWORKS payments and $360 million in food stamp allocations These costs alone exceed one billion dollars annually – excluding the cost of education." Nearly 100,000 children of 60,000 undocumented parents receive aid – for a total of 160,000. If incorporated into a city, it would be the 6th largest city in Los Angeles county Also, one in fifteen people in California is an illegal immigrant – costing our State $3 billion dollars annually.

YOU MIGHT ASK, WHAT IS ILLEGAL MIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS COSTING YOUR STATE? I DON'T THINK YOUR GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER FROM YOUR STATE LEADERS? THEY ARE RATHER IN TIGHT WITH THE BUSINESSES COMMUNITIES OR ARE RUNNING SCARED FROM THIS ISSUE?

Deceitful Companies and open border interests are just one foundation for the financial fall of America. Democratic leaders discounted the Tea Party and measured them as nothing more than a small crowd of discontents. Oh! Boy! Were they wrong? The GOP, on the other hand, understood that it wasn't and were bright enough to encourage them into their party. People have been wondering for a long time, who Congress works for? That question is simply answered, when the United States, unlike other nations doesn't make it a felony to trespass on to our sovereign territory? Decades of complete brain oblivion--intentional or not on the part of both political parties in Congress, is costing millions of US jobs, lowering of wage, and higher taxes to accrue to this mess; specifically in the lower working classes. We are forced to pay for their children’s education, the whole household’s medical care and many well concealed programs by the government. Illegal aliens are just that illegal! They are robbing the taxpayers, and they are arriving here from Asia, Europe or Central and South America.

In 1986 Immigration reform package that was a mass amnesty, which was an absolute debacle and added 6 million more legal immigrants, that has devastated the welfare entitlement program, ever since. It can be amended, but there never will be another deceiving amnesty; not broken as critics say, but a reform law meant to fail. The last amnesty to complete carried a hefty cost of 76 billion dollars and what we got was farm laborers, disappearing from picking crops and stealing jobs from previous decades of legal immigrants. Every year millions enter America legally through visa programs, rife with fraud and deception. It’s almost like legal smuggling, as through the years of six stealth amnesties have been implicated, without the public’s knowledge.

While Americans are in home foreclosure, vehicles reprocessed and unable to pay their bills, there are an estimated 8 million gainfully employed. Illegal aliens are still pouring across the border or flying from other nations and are not being tracked as the Mexican Immigration does? The Third Party will stem this illegal economic occupation once and for all. The Tea Party will not vote for any new Amnesties, better labeled as Immigration Reform. The People's power is omnipotent, but we must stand together against many entities who are only interested in profit and exploitation. We can join NumbersUSA and band together by demanding a--MANDATORY E-VERIFY--nationwide, from our federal, State representatives or call Senate—202-224–3121/ House—202-225–3121.

Attn: Stand with Arizona State senator Peirce as the critics of his illegal alien laws are trying to recall him. Not only has Sen. Pierce brought to the attention of the astronomical costs that is causing massive deficits in Arizona, but nationwide. "

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