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Originally Posted by Joe
Call up Texas Roadhouse, Chilli's, Applebees, and bitch to the management.
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yeah, and who is standing in the way at the State House of any attempt to enforce the laws and implementing e-verify?
RI E-Verify legislation dies in Senate
Associated Press - June 2, 2010 6:55 AM ET
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A state Senator's proposal to require private companies to use the federal E-Verify database to check the immigration status of potential employees has died before it came up for a vote.
The Providence Journal reports that
Sen. President M. Teresa Paiva Weed ruled that Tuesday that "the ayes have it," on what she said was a non-debatable motion by Senate Majority Leader Daniel Connors to return the bill to the Judiciary Committee.
The rarely used rule almost certainly kills the bill for this year.
Sen. Marc Cote had pushed the measure.
He said Weed's move "stifled political debate."
The House has passed E-Verify legislation two years in a row, only to have Senate bills die in committee.
Supporters say the bill would crack down on illegal immigration. Opponents say it harms small businesses.
Information from: The Providence Journal,
http://www.projo.com/
funny that in this instance the Projo only mentions opponents saying it harms small business...in other articles there are many other opponents mentioned for far different reasons...
Opponents said the bill will stir “animus” against immigrants — legal and illegal — and wrongly puts the state in the business of enforcing federal immigration law. Others argued that the measure would unduly burden small businesses.
The bill would require any employer with three or more workers to use a pilot E-Verify program to determine whether the new hire is legally authorized to work in this country. The E-Verify program uses an online government database. An identical measure passed in the House by a 53-to-17 vote last week.
The legislation mirrors a key component of Governor Carcieri’s recent executive order cracking down on illegal immigration. The order in part requires state agencies and vendors to run similar checks against the same database.
Sen. Marc A. Cote, D-Woonsocket, said companies that use E-Verify “would have a tremendous benefit” for the “good faith” it would establish, and would shield such companies against claims of illegal hiring practices.
Cote said last year’s raid on the Michael Bianco Inc. plant in New Bedford, Mass., counters opponents’ arguments that undocumented immigrants do not take jobs away from Americans authorized to work in this country. More than 350 people were arrested in that immigration raid.
“Within days after the Bianco raid, four hundred people” who are legally authorized to work applied from the New Bedford area to fill those jobs, Cote said.
Sen. Charles J. Levesque, D-Bristol, opposed the bill.
“I have no doubt this will fuel animus that is not becoming of our state,” Levesque said. “The governor is engaging in a war of attrition against the immigrant community — especially illegals … that type of war of attrition is abhorrent to any of us.” Levesque is a sponsor of a bill that would restrict inquiries into an individuals’ immigration status.
sorry Paul...no pictures this time either