Burning Atlanta

"The sky is falling. The economy sky is falling." That's all we ever hear from the pro-plantation owners and pro-illegals. They whine about how we can't possibly survive without a flood of cheap labor. And they scream to the heavens about E-Verify, how's it's not perfect, how innocent people will suffer, etc.. They're full of crap.

Now, after Arizona has had it's system in place there seems to be a begrudging change of attitude. Not mentioned is that, last I heard, only a small number of employers were signed up but some employers farm their employment screening out. So, who knows how many people are actually being screened. I do know it's had an effect on illegals in Arizona but the sky is falling crap is just that, crap.

Just do it.

DOBBS: An increasing number of states and private employers tonight are making use of the federal government's e-verify system which allows employers to make certain the workers they hire are legally allowed to work in this country. But business special interests, mainstream media and ethnocentric organizations trying to spread a lie about e-verify and employer sanction laws. By the way, the propaganda reached all the way to the "New York Times" editorial pages today.

That editorial said, "States have passed overly punitive laws to revoke the licenses of businesses caught hiring the undocumented and forcing employers to participate in e-verify, the deeply flawed federal system for checking workers' documents."

LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Arizona was first. Passing a law that requires all businesses check new hires to make sure they can legally work in the United States using what's known as the e-verify system. Business groups had predicted it would be a disaster and small companies would go under. But now, six and a half months after the law took effect, even the Arizona Chamber of Commerce says it's not so bad after all.

ANN SEIDEN, ARIZONA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: The sense here in Arizona is that for the most part, employers are experiencing fewer problems with e-verify than some had anticipated.

SYLVESTER: Now other states are eyeing Arizona as a model to weed out the illegal work force. Mississippi has a similar law that took effect this month. Colorado, Georgia, Minnesota, North Carolina and Oklahoma are among a handful of states requiring use of the e- verify system in some cases.

RANDY PULLEN, ARIZONA REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIRMAN: I think there's been a turn in the mind of the business community as well as I think it's been demonstrated that e-verify does work.

SYLVESTER: But not all are applauding the employment verification program. The Cato Institute says it will increase identity theft.

JIM HARPER, CATO INSTITUTE: I suspect if more states will adopt the e verify requirement, but as e-verify screws down more tightly on the illegal immigrants, they will make it much harder on the American citizen. My ass. Typical red herring argument from a pro-slave labor jerk.