One or both of your U.S. Senators are missing from the list of cosponsors of a bill to mandate E-Verify and remove the jobs magnet for illegal immigration.
Voters in your state have been asking them for a year -- and especially in the last month -- to sign the bill and demonstrate a reason to believe any claims about wanting to protect American workers from having to compete with foreign workers illegally hired by unscrupulous employers.
The only new Senator on the list since April is:
Sen. Ted Cruz (TX)
Why aren't both of YOUR Senators on this list?
THE E-VERIFY LIST:The valiant few who appear to be truly serious about fighting illegal immigration
Here are the U.S. Senators who are signed on as sponsors of S. 71 (the Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act) in the U.S. Senate. (The names marked with an asterisk have not signed onto that primary legislative vehicle but onto another bill that would also mandate E-Verify).
ALABAMA
Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]
ARKANSAS
Sen. Boozman, John [R-AR]
Sen. Cotton, Tom [R-AR]
IOWA
Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA]
Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
MAINE
* Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
MISSISSIPPI
Sen. Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS]
Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS]
OHIO
* Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
OKLAHOMA
Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
SOUTH DAKOTA
Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
TENNESSEE
Sen. Blackburn, Marsha
TEXAS
Sen. Cruz, Ted (R-TX)
UTAH
Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT]
* Sen. Romney, Mitt [R-UT]
WEST VIRGINIA
Sen. Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV]
Only in Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi and Utah are both Senators willing to push for one of the key solutions to resolving our illegal immigration crisis.
Mandating running every new hire through E-Verify would not totally solve the illegal immigration problem.
But it is about the only thing that would seriously reduce the millions of illegal aliens who first came to the country on legal visas and then overstayed their visas for years or decades because they were able to illegally obtain jobs.
The E-Verify solution has been available for nearly a quarter-century. It is cheap. It has been tested for decades for millions and millions of hires. It is extremely popular among employers who use it. The only serious reason not to mandate it is the desire to allow employers to continue to fill their jobs with illegal foreign workers.
Why would the Senators NOT on this list want to protect employers who refuse to creatively and aggressively recruit Americans for their construction, manufacturing, hospitality and other service jobs?
Please keep urging your Senator(s) to cosponsor the bill and get on THE LIST of politicians who are serious about solving the illegal immigration problem. Click here to send your messages.
Let's keep the pressure on.
As the 2022 campaigns heat up, absence from this list will determine which incumbents are fair game for holding responsible for the abandonment of struggling American workers for the benefit of those who hire illegal aliens.
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| roy beck, numbersusa action founder & president |
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