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Topic: H.R. 1772: Legal Workforce Act (E-verify)
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Faith Moderator Posts: 5187 From: Registered: Jul 2011
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posted July 26, 2013 11:38 AM
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make mandatory and permanent requirements relating to use of an electronic employment eligibility verification system, and for other purposes. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1772 Many states have already mandated this program where employers must use E-verify to validate that a worker is *authorized* by the Federal government to work. Presently this is being used to ensure that a person is either a legal immigrant or citizen of the US before they can obtain employment. According to wikipedia, E-verify has about an 8% margin of error, and with a lengthy process of appeals, many legal workers are kept out of work for months while the paperwork gets sorted out. That's bad enough. I have another concern, well articulated by Ron Paul in this article. Except: quote: According to David Bier of Competitive Enterprise Institute, there is nothing stopping the use of E-Verify for purposes unrelated to work verification, and these expanded uses could be authorized by agency rule-making or executive order. So it is not inconceivable that, should this bill pass, the day may come when you are not be able to board an airplane or exercise your second amendment rights without being run through the E-Verify database. It is not outside the realm of possibility that the personal health care information that will soon be collected by the IRS and shared with other federal agencies as part of Obamacare will also be linked to the E-Verify system.Those who dismiss these concerns as paranoid should consider that the same charges were leveled at those who warned that the PATRIOT Act could lead to the government collecting our phone records and spying on our Internet usage. Just as the PATRIOT Act was only supposed to be used against terrorists but is now used to bypass constitutional protections in matters having noting to do with terrorism or national security, the national ID/mandatory E-Verify database will not only be used to prevent illegal immigrants from gaining employment. Instead, it will eventually be used as another tool to monitor and control the American people. The recent revelations of the extent of National Security Agency (NSA) spying on Americans, plus recent stories of IRS targeting Tea Party and similar groups for special scrutiny, demonstrates the dangers of trusting government with this type of power. Creation of a federal database with photos and possibly other “biometric” information about American citizens is a great leap forward for the surveillance state. All Americans who still care about limited government and individual liberty should strongly oppose E-Verify.
I do strongly oppose it. I would rather have "illegal aliens" working on our farms than a secretive "No Work" list that could, in the near future, potentially devastate the lives of countless Americans.
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Randall Webmaster Posts: 30427 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 26, 2013 12:50 PM
I agree with you.IP: Logged |
Faith Moderator Posts: 5187 From: Registered: Jul 2011
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posted July 27, 2013 09:33 AM
As is often the case, the ostensible purpose of the bill is at odds with its probable, actual purpose: they say it will expand US citizens' opportunities for work, but it will all too likely drastically reduce those opportunities. Really, this is one of the scariest bills out there, because it can force innocent people into destitution. IP: Logged |
Randall Webmaster Posts: 30427 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009
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posted July 29, 2013 01:45 PM
Yep.IP: Logged | |