E-Verify gets 5 year extention, maybe
Sen. Menendez is a slimeball
Mostly good news to report this evening from multiple sources in the U.S. House -- negotiators have agreed to a 5-year re-authorization of the E-Verify program to keep illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs and without the strings attached that had threatened to strangle it in future years. There are several indicators that many Members of Congress in both Parties really listened to you the citizens through your hundreds of thousands of faxes and phone calls this past week.
If all goes as House Leaders plan, E-Verify will jump its House hurdle tomorrow and then go to the Senate.
Unfortunately, Sen. Menendez of New Jersey is reportedly responsible for a hold that has been placed on E-Verify. He and his staff have indicated their intention to kill E-Verify if they don't win 550,000 additional visas for permanent foreign workers to take jobs in occupations that are laying off American workers.
As soon as we see that the House action has occurred as planned, we will further mobilize American citizens to help their Senators understand that importing foreign workers in a soft job market is a poor way to campaign for re-election in the fall.
We will need 61 Senators to break Sen. Menendez' "hold." Or we'll need Senate Majority Leaders Reid and Durbin to be able to persuade Sen. Menendez that his anti-American-worker actions are embarrassing the Senate and his Party.
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