Obama Goes After Companies That Hire Illegals, And Fox News
Posted on October 23, 2009
One should never follow praise with criticism, so, let’s start with the latest in the White House’s War On Fox New, perhaps known as Operation Domestic Contingency. Doug Ross reports
Today the White House stepped up its attack on Fox News, announcing that the network would no longer be able to conduct interviews with officials as a member of the Press Pool. The Pool is a five-member group consisting of ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC organized by the White House Correspondents Association. Its membership is not subject to oversight by the government.
Fortunately, the rest of the press pool stood up to Hugo Chavez, er, Barack Obama, and said that would not work. So, as Doug points out, the reporters were limited to a two minute interview each, instead of the standard whine, in a (typical) petulant act. Regardless of what one thinks of Fox News, this is the behavior of a dictator in waiting.
ICE has launched a new initiative to audit hiring records and I-9s — the form every new hire fills out to verify identity and employment eligibility – of current and past employees.
Last year, 503 companies nationwide received inspection notices. This year, Homeland Security notified 652 companies in one day.
“It is one of those things causing indigestion among the employment community,” said George Ports with Capital Associated Industries Inc., an employer association in North Carolina with approximately 1,000 members.
I have to give the Obama administration kudos for this. We could probably dig in to their motives, but, regardless, this is something that opponents of illegal immigration have been yammering about for a long time: if you want to stop most of the illegals, you have to go after the companies who hire them, and make it painful to the offenders.
Tony Asion, director of the statewide advocacy group El Pueblo, says he’s already hearing of unintended consequences.
“What (companies) do is deny the job (to a Latino), and it could very well be to a legal U.S.-born Latino who is here,” he said.
It could be a legal immigrant, able to work. Perhaps if people like Asion would stop backing the “rights” of illegals, there wouldn’t be so much bias.
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Here’s a fun project:
Check the political giving history of these 652 companies that were served. Or check the giving history of rival businesses that were not served.
I’m not saying, I’m just saying
If the White house wins the war on Fox news, you can definitely say that the first amendment is no longer true for the American people.
I heard President Obama is recreating the United States Constitution. I don’t know how true this information or rumor is, but it doesn’t sound good.
People of the United States I am unhappy to say we lost our country. We don’t have the freedom of speech, and we don’t have God on our money anymore. Other religions can pray ten times a day but we can’t even say the word God anymore.
I say it again we lost our country. No matter how many Tea parties there are, the people in Washington DC are not paying any attention. They don’t care about the American people; they care about themselves and the illegal immigrants.
We lost the war before we even got started. There are merely a handful of us in the United States who feels this way. Not enough to make a dent into Washington DC for them to listen to us. They will keep spending our money no matter what we do or say. We lost the war. So what if it sound like I gave up, because maybe I did. You can’t fight communism, or the Muslims.
@Iparis
Those that say it can’t be done should keep out of the way of those that are doing it!
My kid likes to watch the Jon Stewart show on the Comedy Channel and I happen to see on Thursday, Stewart had Janet Napolitano as a guest.
Now, if the WH doesn’t think Fox News is a legit news agency, what exactly is Jon Stewart? Napolitano was on for about ten minutes, while the interview for Fienberg was just two minutes.
The Obama White House is digging itself into a hole it won’t get out of. Is it too early to predict he will be impeached, or better yet, resign because he can’t jail anyone who disagrees with him?
Just remember – in a little over one year, we can slap his administration in the face by voting out the corrupt bastids in Congress, denying him a majority.
I can see Tony Asion’s point if the company is employing a fool to screen applicants since I.C.E. is going by the social security number and not race or ethnicity. I sure hope that such is an extremely rare case or our business sector is in worst shape than I think it is.