Supreme court upholds E-verify!

Nice step in the right direction. From your Link.

The Supreme Court decided 5-to-3 that states can punish employers who violate a mandatory E-Verify law. The court challenge was led by the U.S. Chamber of Congress against Arizona's 2007 law that suspends a business's license if they don't use E-Verify to check the eligibility of all new hires.

Supreme Court Upholds E-Verify | NumbersUSA - For Lower Immigration Levels

During the creation of the Basic Pilot Program, which is now known as E-Verify, Congress gave authority to the states to use its business licensing practices as penalty for companies that hire illegal workers. The Court used that clause in its majority opinion.

Arizona’s procedures simply implement the sanctions that Congress expressly allowed the States to pursue through licensing laws. Given that Congress specifically preserved such authority for the States, it stands to reason that Congress did not intend to prevent the States from using appropriate tools to exercise that authority. . . .

Because we conclude that the State’s licensing provisions fall squarely within the federal statute’s savings clause and that the Arizona regulation does not otherwise conflict with federal law, we hold that the Arizona law is not preempted.

-- Chief Justice Roberts wrote in the majority opinion.
 
One would think the demonRats would be in here doing the V for victory dance since it is they who have long wanted to "punish employers" wouldn't one?
 
One would think the demonRats would be in here doing the V for victory dance since it is they who have long wanted to "punish employers" wouldn't one?

Encouraging Bad behavior shouldn't be rewarded, it is more a matter of principle. That same principle should hold the Authorities themselves responsible when Forged Documents are used to skirt the system. Employers should not be held responsible for what is beyond their ability to control. If they follow the rules, and there is foul play, their liability should be limited, to what part they played in the foul. That said, they have a responsibility to report suspicions and inconsistencies.
 
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Uncle Ferd says, "Yea - make `em prove dey's a citizen...
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Supreme Court: AZ Can Require Employers to Verify Citizenship Status of Workers
Thursday, May 26, 2011 – In an early test of state immigration reform laws, the Supreme Court ruled on the side of enforcement regarding an Arizona immigration law that allows penalties up to revocation of business licenses for employers that knowingly hire illegal aliens.
The Arizona law in question in this case required employers to use E-Verify, an electronic federal system that is currently voluntary that allows employers to determine the legal status of job applicants and employees. The court ruled 5-3, with Justice Elena Kagan not participating, to reject the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s argument that the Arizona law pre-empted federal control over immigration policy. This was the first challenge to a state immigration law considered by the high court. The Obama administration opposed the law, but was not directly involved in this case. The Obama Justice Department sued Arizona over another law enacted last year - Senate Bill 1070 - that allowed local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration laws.

This ruling bodes well for other enforcement laws with regard to future rulings, said Bob Dane, spokesman for the pro-enforcement Federation of Americans for Immigration Reform. “This makes clear that federal preemption argument does not preclude meaningful legislation at the state level,” Dane told CNSNews.com. “The Supreme Court said there is no conflict. This is a major smack down to special interests in using the preemption argument.” “In this case, there was no conflict, it mirrored federal law. We think the same applies to 1070,” Dane added. “It’s a different law and a different decision. But this establishes a legal framework that can be factored into the argument over 1070.” The Legal Arizona Workers Act of 2007 says the licenses of state employers that knowingly or intentionally employ illegal aliens may be, and in certain circumstances must be, suspended or revoked. That law also requires that all Arizona employers use E-Verify.

Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said the Arizona law is consistent with the federal Immigration Reform and Control Act that also makes it “unlawful for a person or other entity … to hire, or to recruit or refer for a fee, for employment in the United States an alien knowing the alien is an unauthorized alien.” “Because we conclude that the state’s licensing provisions fall squarely within the federal statute’s savings clause and that the Arizona regulation does not otherwise conflict with federal law, we hold that the Arizona law is not preempted,” Roberts wrote. IRCA does restrict the ability of states to combat employing illegal aliens, but this law does not run counter to that, Roberts continued.

“IRCA expressly preempts some state powers dealing with the employment of unauthorized aliens and it expressly preserves others,” Roberts wrote. “We hold that Arizona’s licensing law falls well within the confines of the authority Congress chose to leave to the States and therefore is not expressly preempted.” At its broadest level, the Chamber’s argument is that Congress ‘intended the federal system to be exclusive,’ and that any state system therefore necessarily conflicts with federal law,” Roberts continued. “But Arizona’s procedures simply implement the sanctions that Congress expressly allowed Arizona to pursue through licensing laws. Given that Congress specifically preserved such authority for the states, it stands to reason that Congress did not intend to prevent the States from using appropriate tools to exercise that authority,” he added.

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What about employers paying cash? You are not going to stop Illegal Immigration and to stop Immigration in general will give the USA a competitive disadvantage by not being able to attract top talent to the country, them staying in their own country making their countries better while ours get worse.
 
What about employers paying cash? You are not going to stop Illegal Immigration and to stop Immigration in general will give the USA a competitive disadvantage by not being able to attract top talent to the country, them staying in their own country making their countries better while ours get worse.

Who gives a shit? let's use EVERY tool available to stop as many illegal aliens as possible.
 
What about employers paying cash? You are not going to stop Illegal Immigration and to stop Immigration in general will give the USA a competitive disadvantage by not being able to attract top talent to the country, them staying in their own country making their countries better while ours get worse.

Who gives a shit? let's use EVERY tool available to stop as many illegal aliens as possible.

So we stop all Immigration because we believe all mexicans are here illegally?
 
What about employers paying cash? You are not going to stop Illegal Immigration and to stop Immigration in general will give the USA a competitive disadvantage by not being able to attract top talent to the country, them staying in their own country making their countries better while ours get worse.

Who gives a shit? let's use EVERY tool available to stop as many illegal aliens as possible.

So we stop all Immigration because we believe all mexicans are here illegally?

Is that even CLOSE to what I have said, or what E Verify does?

How dishonest of you.
 
Great news. Now we need the same type of system for voters. Prove that you are who you say you are, and that you are a legal citizen. Otherwise you can't vote.
 
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Time and refinement. Well get there if we don’t keep getting stonewalled. Now if they would simply let the other immigration laws that Arizona passed through we would be getting somewhere.
 
What about employers paying cash? You are not going to stop Illegal Immigration and to stop Immigration in general will give the USA a competitive disadvantage by not being able to attract top talent to the country, them staying in their own country making their countries better while ours get worse.

Who gives a shit? let's use EVERY tool available to stop as many illegal aliens as possible.

So we stop all Immigration because we believe all mexicans are here illegally?

Are you loaded? That's one of the dumbest posts I've seen in awhile! :eek:

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
 
Another example of rightwingloons' love affair with big brother.

I disagree. I hate big brother, but requiring employers to verify that a prospective employee is a citizen is not an onerous burden. It takes a few seconds. You're already filling out the I-9 and looking at their documents. It literally takes 10 seconds to log on the internet, punch in the SSN and verify.
 
Another example of rightwingloons' love affair with big brother.

That's a hilarious statement considering the fact that the POTUS who left wing loons love has effectively doubled the size of the federal government in a span of 2 plus years.
 
What about employers paying cash? You are not going to stop Illegal Immigration and to stop Immigration in general will give the USA a competitive disadvantage by not being able to attract top talent to the country, them staying in their own country making their countries better while ours get worse.
Same old lame argument. ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL, PERIOD!!!!
 

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