- In what can only be labeled a victory for the American
people and the rule of law along with states' rights, the Supreme Court
this week upheld Arizona's E-Verify law that mandates that employers hire
legal American citizens and not illegal aliens.
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- Roy Beck, director of www.NumbersUSA.org ,
gave this definitive interview on this victory:
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- "The most important result of today's Supreme
Court ruling probably is not what will happen in the states but in
Congress," said Beck. "With more than a dozen states with
different E-Verify laws and different rules for businesses -- and with
the Supreme Court opening the way for all other states to adopt their own
rules -- the business lobbies ought to be ready to work with Congress to
pass a uniform national law.
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- "Many businesses that operate in multiple states
are already complaining to their lobbyists that they don't like operating
under all the different rules and would prefer a national law. Unless
Congress passes a mandatory E-Verify law this year, at least a dozen more
states are likely next winter to pass their own E-Verify laws.
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- "One of the complaints that business lobbyists are hearing
from their members in states WITH E-Verify laws is that they don't like competing
with businesses in other states that are allowed to use cheaper illegal labor
while forcing taxpayers to subsidize them. So many businesses in
E-Verify states are joining us in the pressure for a national law."
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- BUSINESS LOBBIES HAVE BLOCKED TOTAL E-VERIFY IN CONGRESS
FOR 15 YEARS -- BUT WE HAVE BEEN WINNING STEP VICTORIES
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- 'Lobbyists for business groups and illegal-alien advocacy
groups have blocked Congress from passing a national mandatory law since
1996," said Beck. "NumbersUSA and its allies have fought every
year to win incremental victories. First, to create the workplace verification
system as a pilot program for just a few states. Later, to expand the voluntary
system nationwide. Most recently to persuade Pres. Obama to mandate
its use for all federal contractors.
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- "If the Supreme Court had knocked us down today,
the business lobbies would have looked out over a whole nation without
any states requring employers to electronically verify that they weren't
hiring illegal foreign workers. And they would have felt little pressure
to do anything other than they've always done, which is to throw all their
weight in Congress toward protecting employers that prefer to hire illegal
aliens over unemployed Americans. But not now."
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- THIS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT IMMIGRATION COURT CASE
-- AND WE WON IT
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- The case is Chamber of Commerce v. Whiting, 09-115.
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- "Of all the open-border groups' court challenges
against immigration enforcement across the country, this suit before the
U.S. Supreme Court (that was heard last December) was/is by far the most
important."
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- WE WON IT 5-3!
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- "Nothing will do more to retard future illegal immigration
and accelerate the departure of the current illegal population than taking
away the job magnet," said Beck. "Arizona and more than a dozen
other states have already passed various versions of E-Verify law. All
of those could have been wiped out when the Supreme Court announced its
decision this morning.
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- "But instead, our strategy of mandating E-Verify
in as many states as possible to pressure Congress to do it nationwide
has been approved by the highest court of the land."
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- NumbersUSA's AMICUS BRIEF WAS PART OF THIS COURT CASE
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- "You may remember that as soon as the Supreme Court
began business last fall NumbersUSA filed an Amicus brief in support of
the State of Arizona making sure that the Justices and their clerks were
aware of a number of important legal and factual points that we weren't
certain were in the main briefs.
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- "The key issue in the court case was whether Arizona
could take away the business license of an employer who refuses to use
E-Verify. The NumbersUSA Amicus went into great detail in showing that
such a state law is precisely what Congress has set up as a state enforcement
option over the last 25 years. The majority opinion was written by Chief
Justice John Roberts who said that Arizona's E-Verify law "falls well
within the confines of the authority Congress chose to leave to the states."
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- "Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and
Sonia Sotomayor dissented. (The newest Justice, Elena Kagan, was not involved
in this case because she had been part of Pres. Obama's support of the
Chamber of Commerce before she was elected to the Court.)
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- "Please keep opening our email Alerts and joining
with your fellow citizens in considering all the actions we will be offering
you the next weeks to get a vote on E-Verify on the House floor this summer
and in the Senate by fall."
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- Frosty Wooldridge has bicycled across six continents
- from the Arctic to the South Pole - as well as six times across the USA,
coast to coast and border to border. In 2005, he bicycled from the Arctic
Circle, Norway to Athens, Greece. He presents "The Coming Population
Crisis in America: and what you can do about it" to civic clubs, church
groups, high schools and colleges. He works to bring about sensible world
population balance at www.frostywooldridge.comHe is the author of: America
on the Brink: The Next Added 100 Million Americans. Copies available: 1
888 280 7715
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