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January 11, 2007
Illegal Alien Employers Boast About No-Match Letter Sabotage Regulations Torpedoed in Secret By DHS and the White House Representatives of the Essential Workers Coalition and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have asserted that they have successfully sabotaged implementation On a January 11, 2006 teleconference for immigration lawyers sponsored by the American Bar Association, Laura Reiff, a former INS attorney representing low-wage employers who hire large numbers of illegal aliens, said that the Chief Counsel of Customs and Border Protection (CBP)* Alfonso Robles, told her at a meeting at U.S. Department of Homeland Security headquarters in late December that his office was giving low-wage employers “a little Christmas present” by not sending the proposed regulation to the Office of Management and Budget at the White House. Failure to send a regulation to OMB effectively kills the proposed reform bureaucratically, out of the public eye. The regulation was issued with great fanfare by DHS in June 2006. The spokesman for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the teleconference, Angelo I. Amador, also confirmed that the CBP Chief* Counsel had sabotaged the regulation, which the Chamber cynically characterized as a public relations ploy by Secretary Chertoff to undermine support for H.R. 4437, the enforcement-only bill which was passed by the House of Representatives in the 109th Congress, by pretending to take the initiative at the Homeland Security agency level. If implemented, the regulation would have greatly strengthened the enforceability of the 1986 employer sanctions program, and would also have been a significant step in combating identity theft by aliens. “Safe-Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No-Match Letter”, 71 Fed. Reg. 34281 (June 14, 2006) would have amended 8 C.F.R. § 274a.1 to change the application of the principles of constructive knowledge for employers who receive a no-match letter. Under the proposed rule, an employer would be deemed to have constructive knowledge that an employee is not an unauthorized worker if it failed to take “reasonable steps” after receiving a no-match letter from Social Security Administration (SSA), that the combination of name and SSN submitted for an employee does not match SSA records; or after receiving written notice from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that the immigration employment authorization document presented by the employee in completing Form I-9 was assigned to another person, or that there is no agency record that the document was assigned to anyone.” Here is the full text of the regulation, and here is an analysis done by a law firm of the regulation. *corrections: the initial story said the overal DHS General Counsel was responsible and mis-identified CBP General Counsel Phillip P. Perry instead of Robles as another responsible official. Comments
THIS IS JUST MORE OF OUR USELESS GOVERNMENT MALFEASANCE... THEY JUST GET MORE PATHETIC EVERYDAY! Posted by: American Me on January 11, 2007 04:43 PM We truly are no longer a government of the people, for the people, by the people... Posted by: takn on January 11, 2007 05:10 PM I called the White House a couple of weeks ago. Told the person that although I had voted for Bush, that he was no longer my President.That despite having defended his actions repeatedly since his election that I would no longer do that. That he now belonged to Mexico and Corporate America. That is obvious to anyone paying attention. Posted by: mary on January 11, 2007 06:16 PM We need to put the "spit" back in "Hospitality". These people come here illegally and on H-1B visas. They disrespect us, take our right to jobs(white & blue collar), decent healthcare, affordable housing, clean & safe neighborhoods, and of course our way of life. But of course if we complain its "racism", and we are the ones who need to "adapt" to their way of life. Of course our elected officials & the ACLU (Aztlan Civil Liberties Union) makes sure we "tolerate" multi-culturalism, all the while going home to their gated communities. "A government of the people, for the people and by the people." HA HA HA!! Remember: "The truth is not politically correct." Sessions-Tancredo in '08 Posted by: Casa(Congress)DeTraitors on January 11, 2007 07:30 PM I have already written the president and my congressional leaders and expressed my outrage... www.congress.org/congressorg/home/ http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/sen... Capital Switchboard 1-866-340-9281 Posted by: takn on January 11, 2007 09:28 PM To our enemies: Don’t do anything now, when you’re together, that you don’t want to answer for later when you’re alone. Posted by: Gail Roma on January 12, 2007 03:51 AM These people are TRAITORS and should be dealt with accordingly!
Posted by: Critter on January 12, 2007 07:27 AM As best as I can see, this 2006 recomendation never became law. Now what I don't understand is what the law currently is. The insinuation seems to be that employers now don't have to verify legal status to employ aliens and this DHS/Whitehouse 'torpedo' would keep things that way. But isn't it currently against the law to hire an illegal alien? On what grounds does ICE conduct raids? If this little 'Christmas present' is simply a lobbying effort to kill enforcement provisions in a pending bill, then IT IS STILL AGAINST THE LAW TO HIRE ILLEGAL ALIENS! Posted by: Bill Dexter on January 12, 2007 07:43 AM I am not surprised that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce helped to sabotage these (much-needed) regulations. Tom Donohue, the President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, was recently asked about Guestworker/Amnesty, and he said: "Oh, it's going to pass and it's going to pass sometime in the next -- when we get an immigration bill done because the shortage of workers is getting critical and it's, you know, people that oppose guest workers programs are dumb as a box of rocks." You can verify this at: http://readerrant.capitolhillblue.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5851026321/m/4161079081 I recently called the national headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce and told their front office what I think of Donohue and their entire despicable organization. The person who answered the phone said that the Chamber "does not appreciate these types of disrespectful phone messages". If anyone else wants to "disrespect" the U.S. Chamber of Commerce then here is their contact information: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Posted by: Steph on January 12, 2007 09:11 AM How I long for the 50's, 60's, 70's and the 80's when traitors would have been dealt with accordingly. These people deserve to be in prison period. It's not their job to stop new rules from going into action. We need to come out fighting with the gloves off and start exposing these people for the traitors that they are. Posted by: Brian on January 12, 2007 09:53 AM The power of money! Posted by: Some Mexican on January 12, 2007 09:53 AM No, I don't want to call the Chamber of Commerce. I want to know how a regulation passed by DHS is sat upon by an individual of a subset of DHS and how an organization outside the DHS got involved. And I also want to know how they can laugh so publicly about this evidently without fear of any reprisal. Alfonso Robles needs to be fired for blantant insubordination and possibly disbarred. This is not how our government is supposed to work and totally undermines the public's confidence. I'm not going to sit out here and yell about it via e-mail. I believe this requires more than that.
Posted by: Faye on January 12, 2007 10:04 AM I just left a scathing voice message for the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition also. If anyone else wants to do the same, then here is their contact info: Essential Worker Immigration Coalition Posted by: Steph on January 12, 2007 10:16 AM I would love to see someone do an expose on the President of the US chamber of commerce. How much money does he have for his "lobbying" efforts for corporate America. Michelle are you listening?? Posted by: mary on January 12, 2007 11:52 AM GREAT INSIGHT FAIR! I'd add more to the corruption chain from these amnesty nuts, in 1997 a GAO report documented and made it crystal clear that Clinton/Gore were abusing voter IDs to get more Democrat votes. The Republicans wanted low wage slaves so said nothing [in my mind, this was a definite impeachable infraction, no doubt about it], then it was on to Clinton and Monica Lewinski....lol The two parties are constantly trying to distract us from their PLANNED overpopulation destruction of America. The important issue they coverup. Posted by: Softwarengineer on January 12, 2007 02:06 PM Overpopulation is exactly right. If the Big Man thinks he and his friends need a few billion dollars they let in 20 million Mexican nationals. Hey, they all need houses and food, right? Then they have to open all these furniture stores and cheap auto loan places. Then, they have to let all the other evidence of illegal aliens go because they are needed to work in factories making cheap furniture for the illegal aliens that came 1st. America's economy would of been better. America wouldn't be devalued, and the quality of life submarined with street fights between drug dealers. We would of been fine without all these Mexicans and who cares if an old man has to call the boy scouts to pay to get the lawn cut? Now, they can't get a job either. Posted by: Bootinur on January 12, 2007 05:52 PM I like your idea, Mary. Hopefully, these traitors will one day have little to boast and gloat about! Posted by: Born American on January 12, 2007 06:55 PM What we are seeing is the political and economic subjugation and dissolution of an historic nation and the ethnic cleansing of its people, all justified by the alleged imperatives of commerce. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either a fool like Michael Medved or an evil fool like GWB. There is no fundamental problem with a country experiencing zero or negative population growth, as is the case for many rich countries. This scenario implies a rising ratio of retirees to workers, but we have always had a rising ratio of retirees to workers, and we have generally enjoyed rising living standards (on average). Productivity growth generally swamps the impact of demographics (it takes fewer people to make a car, handle bank transactions, or staff a retail store) so there is no problem associated with the fact that a smaller share of our population may be working in the future. Also, many jobs don’t need to be done – convenience stores don’t need to be open 24 hours, lawns don’t have to be mowed as frequently, restaurants can be cafeterias. In addition, in a world where scientists recognize global warming as a serious problem, a smaller number of people in the high per capita polluters is a good thing. 4) Social Security Does Not Face a Crisis, So Stop Asserting That It Does The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office show that the program can pay all scheduled benefits until 2046 with no changes whatsoever. This would not fit most people’s definition of a crisis. This means that if you want to use “financially distressed” “fiscally threatened” or some equivalent adjectival phrase to refer to Social Security, talk to your editor about getting an opinion piece. Such phrases do not belong in a news story.
Posted by: perroazul del norte on January 12, 2007 07:04 PM There is NOTHING EMPLOYERS FEAR MORE than making the basic pilot program mandatory and making social security cards verifiable. NOTHING. The pro-American side should never lose site of this. Once we have a system in place where illegals simply cannot work in the US then the whole pro-illegal side will crumble. Once employers cannot profit from illegal immigration then the downward spiral where other employers feel they need to hire illegals to compete will end. Furthermore, the whole National Association of Manufacturers crowd will have to work through legal channels which is above board and subject to scrutinity. The only thing left will be the ethnic lobby who's naked racist activism will never hold up to sunlight. Make the basic pilot program mandatory and End of story. Posted by: hugo on January 12, 2007 09:01 PM I still say what we need is a march in Wash. The numbers of Americans there would be unprecedented.(On a weekend. )If the enemy decides to have marches that will propel this idea forward ,ftheir demand for rights they are not entitled to makes everyone as angry as hell. I hope they have many, many marches as Spring comes....the last time it woke many people up who hadn't realized how infiltrated we have become with foreign enemies of the state! Posted by: mary on January 14, 2007 12:47 AM Mary, there are an estimated millions of Americans that own RV's. Can you imagine if some two hundred and fifty thousand RV owners would make the trip to D.C. and circle Washington D.C. as a statement of concern for the future of their children? They could demand an immediate stop to all immigration, legal and illegal for 10years.(Pat Buchanan's good recommendation). They could set up their barbecues and call the whole event, The Great Washington Roast. Posted by: Bobby on January 15, 2007 04:45 PM |
of a proposed DHS regulation which would require employers who receive ‘no-match’ letters from the Social Security Administration to correct the discrepancy, or be considered to have “constructive knowledge” of unlawful hiring of illegal aliens at their business.