Obama Goes After Companies That Hire Illegals
Posted on July 2, 2009
Alternate title “Something Which I Agree With Obama On”
The Obama administration launched investigations of hundreds of businesses around the country Wednesday as part of its strategy to focus immigration enforcement on the employers who hire illegal workers.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun notifying businesses of plans to audit their I-9 forms — employment eligibility documents that employers fill out for every worker — the agency told members of Congress in an e-mail Wednesday.
Immigration officers served “Notices of Inspection” to 652 businesses, the Homeland Security Department said. By comparison, 503 such notices were issued to businesses last year, the agency said. Businesses were chosen for inspections based on leads and other investigative work, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said.
While I certainly think that companies that hire illegals should still be raided(and the people in charge should be fined heavily along with dragging off illegals and immediately deporting them) I also believe heavily that one of the ways to reduce illegal immigration is to go after the companies. If they won’t hire them, than there will be little need to raid companies and work sites. If the jobs aren’t available, a good chunk of illegals will leave, and others will not come, meaning law enforcement can focus more on the illegals who are bad people, as well as protecting American citizens, rather than being distracted.
I do disagree vehemently with Obama wanting amnesty; something which many elected Republicans wanted also, in all fairness, but, I have to give him props for this program. Heck, I have heard Ann Coulter say many times that the path to stopping a large portion of illegal immigration is to go after the companies who hire them. I also have no problem with Obama looking for an expanded guest worker program. Said program must have much better oversight and monitoring of the guest workers, since approximately one third of all illegals are people who have overstayed their visas.
Anyway, good job, President Obama. The article points out that you might have a cynical reason for doing this, but, keep doing it.
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I don’t believe that republicans want amnesty.
They do want the votes that they will pick up by not telling the public that they want all of the illegals deported.
Selling us Americans out for a vote because the media says what sounds to be politically neutral and still leaning to the side of a humanity posture at the cost of our constitution and bill of rights…not to mention the loss of jobs and taxes.
If the media would tell the truth and let the people know that they are not alone in wanting to get these illegals back under control and let the politicians know that we do support them by a wide majority…then, and only then can we have politicians do the job they were elected to do.
It doesn’t help to have these bottom feeding democrats trying to suck the life out of our country by selling us out for a vote at every election…abortion, LGBT’s, pot heads, illegals…
Nobody wants to have their billions of tax dollars wasted on illegals…and the politicians are scared to lose a vote if they boot the illegals.
America…it is OK to offend those that are breaking the law by calling them law breakers and punish them for it…try it…it is ok.