Another Delay – But, No Surprise

[Rick Oltman]

One year, four delays. Is there another Presidential Executive Order that has been delayed, ever? I don’t know of one.

On June 6th 2009 it will be one year since President Bush signed Executive Order 12989 making it mandatory for the federal government and its contractors to use E-Verify to ensure that they are employing only American Workers (American citizens or legal immigrants with work visas). E-Verify is 99.5% accurate and answers most inquiries in seconds.

Why the delay? Regardless of the reason, in this case awaiting the outcome of the lawsuit brought against the Executive Order (by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., Society for Human Resource Management, American Council on International Personnel and HR Policy Association) it is obvious that the Obama Administration has no intention of enforcing any of our immigration laws, except those against the most heinous lawbreakers, for which there is no big money constituency…yet.

If you are a violent criminal alien; a murderer, sexual predator, child molester, drug trafficker, etc., you can expect the full weight of federal and local law enforcement to fall you…finally. And, with every violent alien they find, the feds will be shouting from the rooftops about what a good job they are doing of protecting us. Just wait. Not that I am not grateful, but this is a no-brainer and doesn’t even warrant an “attaboy.” The feds and locals should have been on this class of criminal all along, with zeal.

In the meantime the flow of illegal aliens and drugs will continue and increase and little will be done to stop any of it. Expect to hear impressive accounts of border enforcement, but it will all be a sham. This administration has already failed twice to do anything substantial regarding border security in the face of real crisis.

The first failure was the pathetic response to the horrific violence in Mexico. With heads literally rolling in the streets of Mexican towns and Phoenix, AZ turned into the kidnapping capital of North America (mostly perpetrated by Mexican cartel thugs) there was no effort to secure the border against drug traffickers, kidnappers or the average run of the mill illegal alien desperately fleeing a failed nation that seems in a perpetual state of circling the drain.

The second failure to secure the border was at the beginning of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta now estimates over 100,000 cases of swine flu in America. Thankfully it isn’t the deadly infection that it might have been. Regardless, the only government response at the border was to order U.S. Customs inspectors at the ports of entry to remove their masks, before reversing themselves within 24 hours.

And now the most basic requirement of having the federal government simply check to see if the workers they employ actually have a right to those jobs has been delayed again.

It seems ridiculous to point out that there isn’t a single federal job that would go unfilled if all the illegal aliens vanished tomorrow.

Illegal aliens have a friend in the White House; they have for the last seventeen years. But, where in the political elite is the leadership for immigration law enforcement? Is there any effort to reverse the open border policy that benefits no one except the businesses that hire illegal aliens and sell them products? There are a few patriots, yes. And they are so few they are all known to you by name.

The real reason E-Verify is being held up is quite simple. It works. It is fast and accurate and it works. And we need more elected officials to make this simple point.





From the E-Verify website:
Federal Contractor rule delayed until June 30, 2009
The effective date of the final rule requiring certain federal contractors and subcontractors to use E-Verify has been delayed until June 30, 2009.
The rule will only affect federal contractors who are awarded a new contract after June 30, 2009 that includes the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) E-Verify clause (73 FR 67704).
Federal contractors may NOT use E-Verify to verify current employees until the rule becomes effective and they are awarded a contract that includes the FAR E-Verify Clause.
The new rule implements Executive Order 12989, as amended by President George W. Bush on June 6, 2008, directing federal agencies to require that federal contractors agree to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their employees. The amended Executive Order reinforces the policy, first announced in 1996, that the federal government does business with companies that have a legal workforce. This new rule requires federal contractors to agree, through language inserted into their federal contracts, to use E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all persons hired during a contract term, and to confirm the employment eligibility of federal contractors’ current employees who perform contract services for the federal government within the United States. You can read frequently asked questions about this new rule in the link below.
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=75bce2e261405110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=75bce2e261405110VgnVCM1000004718190aRCRD

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