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Alcibiades wrote:
> They are talking about the Sensenbrenner Bill in this article, a bill
> which will be announced today. He is the Judiciary Committee Chairman
> who has control of immigration legislation in the House, so whatever
> enforcement bill is passed, it will be what he offers. It will be an
> amalgamation of the various enforcement bills we've heard about in the
> last several months. He is on our side, but the Senate will produce a
> Guest Worker bill to meet it.
>
> The good thing about it is that it will likely include Electronic
> Verification for employers of new hires. That is the crux of this
> whole problem, or course. All of us can think of places we know and
> businesses we've worked that are now full of Illegals who would fail
> the Electronic Verification. It would be a LOT of fun busting these
> people. But the Senate's Guest Worker would no doubt try to fold
> existing Illegals into their plan. We shall see.
>
> http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20051206-104704-2743r
>
> House immigration bill targets businesses
> By Stephen Dinan
> The Washington Times
> Published December 6, 2005
>
> WASHINGTON -- The House Republican immigration-enforcement bill will
> include a measure aimed directly at ensuring that employers are taking
> steps to hire legal workers -- going a step further than the White
> House has gone in targeting businesses.
>
>     The bill, which Judiciary Committee Chairman F. James
> Sensenbrenner Jr. of Wisconsin is expected to introduce today, calls
> on employers to check documents submitted by new employees against a
> database to verify their authenticity.
>
>     "This is the one thing you can really do that really will work,"
> said Rep. Ken Calvert, a California Republican who has been fighting
> for the provisions for years. "You're not picking one group of people
> or another group of people. All you're doing is checking the validity
> of a Social Security card -- I don't know how anybody can be against
> that."
>
>     Named the Basic Pilot Program, it began in the mid-1990s as a
> voluntary system for employers in a handful of states to check
> prospective employees' Social Security numbers. In 2003, it was
> expanded nationwide, but it is still voluntary. Mr. Sensenbrenner's
> bill would make it a requirement.
>
>     Mr. Sensenbrenner, who as committee chairman is writing the bill,
> will call on employers to recheck the documents of all employees hired
> within the past six years. Mr. Calvert's version does not.
>
>     Mr. Sensenbrenner yesterday said his bill would be the beginning
> of "a serious interior immigration enforcement effort."
>
>     His bill also would increase penalties for human trafficking and
> would adopt provisions from a bill sponsored by Rep. John Culberson,
> Texas Republican, that would authorize and fund efforts by sheriffs in
> border counties to go after illegal aliens.
>
>     "This legislation will demand that people follow the law and be
> held accountable for their actions," Mr. Sensenbrenner said.
>
>     President Bush last week took credit for expanding the Basic Pilot
> Program, but he did not call for it to become mandatory. Workplace
> enforcement is one area where Republicans are openly critical of Mr.
> Bush, saying he cannot hope to solve the immigration problem without
> improvement in that area.
>
>     Work site arrests of illegal aliens have fallen every year of his
> administration, from 953 in 2000 to 159 in 2004. And last year, the
> federal government issued just three notices of intent to fine
> companies for employing illegal aliens, down from 178 in 2000.
>
>     Business groups have questioned whether the system can work, and
> they and immigration-rights advocates say it sometimes returns a flag
> even on a U.S. citizen.
>
>     They also want to see a broader bill that includes a guest-worker
> program and legalizes most of the current illegal alien population,
> saying an enforcement-only approach won't work.
>
>     Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said she
> thinks Mr. Sensenbrenner would have preferred to write a broader bill.
> That makes her optimistic that in the next Congress the House will
> take up a comprehensive bill that includes guest-worker provisions.
>
>     "It would be a mistake to think this is his bottom line, and he
> can go no further," she said.
>
>     If the bill passes the committee this week, it could be on the
> floor next week, and some Republicans are already lobbying for leaders
> to allow floor votes on a series of amendments. Rep. Tom Tancredo,
> Colorado Republican and chairman of the 92-member Immigration Reform
> Caucus, said this is the first opportunity in nearly a decade to have
> such a broad immigration debate.
>
>     "It could not have come at a more critical time for the country,"
> he said, urging broad rules for the floor debate. "This opportunity is
> too important and too rare to take ideas off the table."
>
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Rip the nuts off those who knowingly employ illegal aliens.

Jay