FAIR Immigration Report
March 2009
$800 Billion Economic Stimulus and Job Creation Bill Includes No Protections for U.S. Workers
While American taxpayers and future generations of Americans are being asked to take a nearly trillion dollar gamble that the stimulus bill will work as advertised, the legislation included no safeguards to ensure that the jobs created will actually be filled by legal U.S. workers.
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E-Verify: Fact and Fiction
Led by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the cheap labor/open borders lobby employed a massive disinformation campaign to derail efforts to include E-Verify requirements in the economic stimulus bill. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, whose membership benefits from hiring illegal aliens, along with other lobby groups repeatedly made false and misleading assertions about the E-Verify program.
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The Fight to Save E-Verify
The American worker—especially the unemployed American worker—was sold out when President Obama signed an economic and job stimulus bill that did not include basic protections to ensure that they would get the jobs being created. They were not sold out without a fight and those of us who have been working for their interests are not giving up the effort to protect the interests of legal U.S. workers.
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Bailed Out Banks Lay Off American Workers But Keep H-1B Guest Workers
According to a February report by the Associated Press, “the dozen banks now receiving the biggest rescue packages, totaling more than $150 billion, requested visas for more than 21,800 foreign workers over the past six years.”
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Oklahoma’s Immigration Enforcement Statute Upheld by Court
A judge in Oklahoma became the latest jurist to uphold a policy that allows state governments to enforce laws against illegal immigration. Tulsa County Judge Jefferson Sellers, in a February 11 ruling, upheld the constitutionality of Oklahoma’s House Bill 1804.
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Three Years, 32 Miles of Double Fencing: Another Enforcement Promise Not Kept
A report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds that a grand total of 32 miles of double fencing has been completed—a pace of just under 11 miles a year. Moreover, those 32 miles may well be the only double fencing the public is likely to see along the increasingly violent border.
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Arizona Court Upholds Right of Border Area Citizens to Protect Themselves
For years, illegal alien advocacy organizations like the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) have used the threat of lawsuits to intimidate communities and individuals from protecting themselves, their communities and their property against mass illegal immigration. Even though such acts are perfectly legal, the cost of litigation scared off many.
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Tax Credits for Illegal Aliens
While legislators managed to exclude E-Verify protections for U.S. workers from the economic stimulus bill, they did take the trouble to include loopholes that will allow illegal aliens to benefit from the tax credits offered in the bill. Most U.S. taxpayers earning under $200,000 a year will receive tax credits amounting to $400 for an individual and $800 for a married couple filing jointly.
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