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Conservative Issues Fair
First - Welcome to all the new members who elected to receive our email
alerts that signed up at the Conservative Issues Fair.
Great news -
Yesterday - as you know - MINNSIR participated in the Conservative Issues Fair
The turnout was excellent
Even more exciting was the thoughts, comments and support by so many
who came to this fair - within the issue of illegal immigration.
It was uplifting to hear the many thanks from people who stopped at our table
by more importantly - it was encouraging not to hear (very little) of the apathy
that we normal hear from - "We The People"
Many are simple angry and upset and are motivated to do something
and MINNSIR (as long as you need us) will be there to lead the way.
This should be encouragement for all across this great nation.
We are not a few - We are many!
We must not give up - if we sould the end result would be.............
As I stated to many yesterday - a starting point is with our local, county
and state elected representatives - which includes the Governor
Please consider an ongoing correspondence with your politicans
It is there - By Hearing Our Voices - that we can make our thoughts,
beliefs and stance on illegal immigration heard loud and clear.
Ruthie
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http://www.ktar.com/?nid=45&sid=667367
Appeals court upholds Arizona immigration law
September 17th, 2008 @ 6:20pm
By JACQUES BILLEAUD
Associated Press Writer
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an Arizona law that penalizes businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants and requires them to verify the employment status of their workers.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision rejected a challenge by business and civil-rights groups that contend the law infringes on federal immigration powers.
The law, intended to lessen the economic incentive for immigrants to sneak into the country, imposes civil penalties on employers by suspending or revoking their business licenses when they are found to have knowingly hired illegal immigrants.
While it upheld the law, a three-judge panel of the court left the door open for other challenges, saying no one has been accused of violating the law since it took effect nine months ago.
Republican state Rep. Russell Pearce of Mesa, the author of the law, said the ruling is a big win for the movement to get state and local governments to crack down on illegal immigration.
"Locals are just as responsible for the crisis in America in this invasion (of illegal immigrants) as the federal government," Pearce said.
The civil-rights groups that challenged the law are considering whether to appeal the ruling to the 9th Circuit or the U.S. Supreme Court.
Jonathan Weissglass, an attorney for the groups, said the law and the ruling could create problems for employers who have operations in more than one state because states could have different sets of hiring rules.
"What the 9th Circuit has allowed is everyone can enact its own laws regarding immigrant employment, which would create chaos," Weissglass said.
It's unclear whether the business groups that challenged the law will seek an appeal. Two lawyers representing the groups were unavailable for comment Wednesday because they were out of the country.
Lawyers for the state argued that while a similar federal hiring law prevents states from imposing civil or criminal penalties against businesses for illegal hirings, the federal law lets states take licensing actions against violators. The appellate court agreed with that argument.
A lower-court judge upheld the law in February.
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Contact: Janice Kephart
202-466-8185, jlk@cis.org
Moving Forward with E-Verify
Program to Check Legal Status Already 99.5% Accurate
WASHINGTON (September 18, 2008) – The E-Verify program, which allows employers to check the immigration status of new employees, has been steadily improving and is now 99.5 percent accurate, according to a new paper by the Center for Immigration Studies. This voluntary program is already screening more than one in ten new hires nationwide, and as of September 13, 2008, has processed 6.21 million queries.
E-Verify is set to expire on November 30, 2008, unless it is re-authorized by Congress. The House of Representatives has already passed a reauthorization bill by a vote of 407-2, while the Senate has not yet taken action.
To help inform debate over E-Verify, the Center for Immigration Studies has produced a thorough evaluation. The Backgrounder, entitled “If It’s Fixed, Don’t Break It: Moving Forward with E-Verify,” is authored by Janice Kephart, Director of National Security Studies at the Center and a former counsel to the 9/11 Commission. The report covers the many facets of the E-Verify debate: statistics regarding usage, cost, and effectiveness; legislative history; executive orders affecting the program; the relationship of E-Verify to worksite enforcement; and past improvements to the program as well as future goals.
The report is available online at http://www.cis.org/. Among the findings:
# As of the first half of FY 2007, only one-half of one percent of eligible employees screened had to take additional steps to obtain work authorization; overall, the system is 99.5% accurate.
# More than 93 percent of employees are verified within five seconds; another 1.2 percent are verified within 24 hours. A new Photo Screening Tool and a streamlined procedure for naturalized citizens to receive authorization are increasing accuracy and efficiency for employers and employees; naturalized citizens no longer need to take remedial action at Social Security.
# About 5 percent of new employees are not confirmed as work authorized, mirroring the same percentage of illegal aliens estimated to be in the labor force.
# When E-Verify became web-based later in 2004, 1,533 employers had signed up. As of September 13, 2008, there are 85,816 employers representing over 446,000 sites and over 6.21 million queries processed. Currently, about 1,000 new employers join per week.
# Eleven states require use of E-Verify in certain circumstances (AZ, CO, GA, ID, MN, MO, MS, NC, OK, RI, and UT).
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The Center for Immigration Studies is an independent research institute that examines the impact of immigration on the United States.
Ruthie
Minnesotans Seeking Immigration Reform
Independent Minnesota Minutemen
FIRE Coalition State Chapter
http://www.mnsirproject.com/
mailto:minnsir@yahoo.com
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