Will the jobs that supposedly will be created by the economic stimulus legislation go to Americans? Maybe, and maybe not.
It is absolutely wrong, says immigration reform activist Susan Tully, for the U.S. Senate to omit an important section of the House stimulus bill that prevents illegal immigrants from obtaining any jobs created by the legislation. The House-passed stimulus package -- the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1) -- contains specific language requiring that all contractors receiving funds under the bill use the federal E-Verify system to find out if workers are either U.S. citizens or legal immigrants authorized to work. But Tully, with the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), says the Senate stimulus bill deliberately omits the E-Verify provision. "We were actually told by a reporter who called our office to get our comments on this that...the U.S. Chamber of Commerce did a deal behind the doors with the Senate to get that language removed using E-Verify for the stimulus bill," she states. Tully is convinced that greedy U.S. business interests are behind the country's current financial mess. He accuses those interests of corruption and knowingly using illegal labor as a cheap way to help keep businesses afloat. "No! This is the whole mentality that has got us into this predicament to begin with," says the immigration reformer. "And I have no hope based on what I've seen Washington do that they are going to get this right." Tully says that according to a study recently done by Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, if the Senate stimulus bill becomes law without the E-Verify provision, 300,000 jobs created by the bill would go to those who are in the country illegally.
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