Why do Pelosi and Reid not want to verify jobs go American workers and protect illegal immigrants?
With all the hoopla over greasy pork being stuffed into President Barack Obama’s near trillion-dollar spending bill, it’s what is being cut out that’s receiving too little attention. And once Americans realize it, they won’t be happy. What’s been quietly stripped is a provision that would have required any businesses receiving federal stimulus cash to use an easy computer program called E-Verify to make sure that the jobs they generate go to American citizens or documented foreign workers, not illegal immigrants. Democrats in the House voted for the E-Verify component. But when the great porkulus package reached the Senate, Democrats there dropped it. Subjects: Illegal Immigration, President Obama, stimulus package, E-Verify, illegal immigrants, American workers, Democrats, Sen. Jeff Sessions, amendment, Congress, Social Security numbers, verify employees, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, taxpayers February 11, 2009 John Kass Chicago Tribune Of all the garbage in the bill, there’s been little