From No Sheeples Here!–
The Senate’s stimulus bill, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, could supply 300,000 construction jobs to illegal aliens, effectively sending taxpayer funds to Mexico and other countries, according to the Center for Immigration Studies. The Center’s studies have previously estimated that 15 percent (one out of every seven) of the nation’s construction workers are illegal immigrants.
The Senate version under consideration provides $104 billion, that’s billion with a B, in government funding for new construction projects including highways, schools and restoration of public housing—to generate jobs for some of the 11.1 million unemployed Americans.
However, unlike the House version introduced by Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), and approved by the House and for which every Republican voted NO, the Senate bill would not prohibit several hundred thousand illegal aliens from acquiring those jobs and sending the money back to their native countries, in most cases that would be the lovely sewer known as Mexico.
The Senate does not include the E-Verify stipulation to ensure only Americans receive the new jobs.
The House of Representatives version strictly prohibits contractors from hiring employees without first checking the e-Verify system, which allows employers to verify whether potential employees are authorized to work in this country. Advocates for illegal immigration attacked the House version and members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus sent House leaders a letter urging them to remove the requirement from the final bill.
“Since a large portion of the stimulus is concentrated in Hispanic dominated industries, transportation and construction, this provision will have an enormous impact on our community,” the letter stated. “Foreign-born American citizens are thirty times more likely than native born workers to be incorrectly identified as ineligible for work.”
Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ben Nelson (D-NE) sent Senate leadership (Harry “I’ve got hemorrhoids and that’s why I look so damned ugly” Reid and Nancy “The Village Idiot” Pelosi) a letter pleading for them to include E-Verify in the stimulus bill to guarantee that the new positions will be filled by U.S. citizens.
The request for inclusion of that requirement makes sense because the stimulus package is intended to stimulate the American economy and create job for Americans and not for ingrates who flip us the “bird” or grab their crotches in defiance of a nation whose good-heartedness has been egregiously abused for decades.
The Sessions-Nelson letter states, “The stimulus package is intended to help ease the pain of the current recession and restore growth to our economy. If passed, it will be paid for by the American taxpayers and we believe that Congress should do all it can to ensure that American taxpayers are the intended beneficiaries of its efforts.”
So scum-bag Bush FINALLY got off his ass and did a half-right. He commuted Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean’s sentences. Of course, the right thing would have been full-pardons… TWO-YEARS AGO!!!!!!
Michelle Malkin has a good piece:
Useful Idiot Watch 