Guest Post by Joe Guzzardi
The din emanating from Congress these days is decidedly not in the Christmas spirit. The White House confrontation that pitted President Trump against his arch-enemies Senator Chuck Schumer and soon-to-be House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi stopped short of an all-out brawl, but offered zero encouragement that all parties were on the verge of a compromise on anything, least of all a Southwest border wall or legislative solutions to asylum loopholes.
With the December 21 deadline to fund the Department of Homeland Security looming, President Trump’s demand for $5 billion for wall construction versus the offer from Schumer and Pelosi to provide about $1.5 billion is the hang up. The $1.5 billion is like mere bus fare in today’s spend-crazy Congress.
Immigration analysts are puzzled by why President Trump insists on tackling the toughest item on his agenda, the wall, when other deterrents to illegal immigration are more immediately within reach, namely E-Verify.
President Trump’s signature issue has always been to build a wall to dramatically slow illegal immigration, and thus remove the jobs magnet from the unlawful entry equation. In 1981, the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy concluded all studies indicated that illegal aliens are attracted to this country by U.S. employment opportunities. Yet, nearly four decades later, Congress has consistently refused to act in American workers’ best interests. Once, not that long ago, even Schumer saw the E-Verify light. Schumer in 2009: “…a biometric-based employer verification system with tough enforcement and auditing is necessary to significantly diminish the job magnet that attracts illegal aliens to the United States…”
E-Verify has a disappointing history. Even though every congressional staffer is processed through E-Verify and all federal contractors are required to use it, stand-alone bills for the program that passed the House Judiciary Committee never reached the floor for a full vote. More than 750,000 employers use E-Verify at more than 2.4 million hiring sites.
Congress is also dismissive of other E-Verify benefits. Identity theft via falsified I-9 forms would be reduced, and unscrupulous employers would no longer have an unfair wage advantage over business owners and operators who are unfairly penalized when they hire and pay the going rate to citizens and lawfully present immigrants. In national polling among likely voters, a whopping 78 percent favor mandatory E-Verify.
The White House strategy behind selling E-Verify should be simple: U.S. reps and senators who don’t support E-Verify send the clear message to their constituents that they’re okay with illegal immigrants in the workplace, while millions of Americans are unemployed or under-employed.
A Pew Research Center report showed that illegal immigrants work in the construction, production, service and transportation industries, all areas in which many unemployed Americans would work. Schumer, Pelosi et alcan argue, persuasively to some, that a wall would be ineffective. But no one, whether he be President Trump’s friend or foe, can claim that E-Verify doesn’t protect American workers.
President Trump’s goal should be to back E-Verify critics into a corner to see what defense they could mount against preferring that jobs, especially low-skilled positions, go to illegal immigrants instead of America’s most vulnerable – minorities, the poor and the under-educated.
https://progressivesforimmigrationreform.org/as-funding-deadline-nears-trump-keeps-banging-head-against-the-wall/
It is interesting e-verify hasn’t been more talked about. It’s a no brainer. The wall is important also, imo. It’s very symbolic. Symbols have always been important all throughout history. In fact, The Great Wall stopped the Huns. The Huns were some badass momma-jommas too. Much more so than Jaun and Don.
mamma jammas
Mommas in p-jommas like people of walmart.
I was correcting D’s Nuts spelling
E-verify and all other measures can be switch on and off easily by twitching the law a little by whoever is in charge. Just like the law passed when Reagan signed the amnesty in the 1980’s to penalized employers who employs illegal aliens $5000 but the law was never enforced. However, a physical wall is permanent and cannot easily dismantle by twitching the law.
I’m leaning towards that the last 2 years has been theater. T’s ONE chance to bring on the change was to shut it down in March 2017 … served up to him on a silver platter … and he failed (or never actually intended to ‘succeed.’
Theater?
Government is isn’t the local playhouse, it’s Hollywood for ugly people.
Remember that show where the little midget cries out — “De plane! De plane!!”
That’s how I picture midget brain Trump. Only he shouts — “De wall! De Wall!!”
Hervé Villechaize was not a midget, you big gorilla. You need to curb your height privilege.
The whole government lives on Fantasy Island.
I recently watched a very interest documentary on the history of Hitler’s SS. In it the narrator made the very interesting observation that changed my historical perspective. The narrator commented that Hitler’s speeches WEREN’T about him molding German popular opinion, but rather him learning to read the crowd’s reactions to his speeches and then tweaking whatever got a favorable popular reaction. From that in turn came many of his policies moving forward. Hence we can say that in essence, it was the German population of the time that molded Hitler and NOT vice-versa.
Das Amerikan volk vant a vall my friend. Und Donny vants to hold on to zee power. You do the math.
“We want a wall! Even if it’s a really, really low one”:
Lovely family. If we could have a country of 4 foot tall people, it could be a great country again.
I see that happening shortly
It doesn’t get old, does it?
That’s called Ecuador.
Ecuadorians have tremendous lung capacity that doesn’t disappear permanently for those who live abroad. I’d like to go but being short and short of breath, might not work out.
El- Aren’t you around four feet tall? You could be the leader with your superior intellect. With a TBP member at the helm, MAGA could really happen.
That’s my plan, all I have to do is shame tall people for their height privilege and they will cave in and give me the empire. Winning!
El Presidente, can I get one of those cushy cabinet positions……old buddy, old pal?
Seriously, I suppose he was reading the crowd when he was writing Mein Kampf ? Give me a break.
“Seriously, I suppose he was reading the crowd when he was writing Mein Kampf ? Give me a break.”
In 1919 Hitler joined the German Workers’ Party (DAP), the precursor of the NSDAP. He became famous for his public speeches, which fed off the ALREADY existing overall general public perception that Germany had been betrayed by financial oligarchs & commies. Given that then, as now, Jews controlled the financial world he increasingly focused on outing them specifically as a collective target by name. That went so well he managed to get himself appointed leader of the NSDAP in 1921.
As the anti-Semitic crowds grew larger he sensed he was onto something so in 1923 he attempted to seize power in a failed coup in Munich but wound up imprisoned until 1924. The apple just wasn’t ripe yet. He wrote Mein Kampf whilst in jail which heavily scape-goated Jews for all of Germany’s problems. The book was published in 1925 (Volume 2 was published in 1926). The worldwide 1929 stock market collapse and resulting economic turmoil seemed to confirm in the German population’s eye that Jews (and commies to an increasingly lesser degree) were indeed behind Germany’s woes and Hitler, who had already been feeding off the German’s anti-Semitic sentiments since at least 1920 seemed like just the right guy to lead their country. The rest is history
So in answer to your question, NO, he wasn’t reading the crowds when he wrote Mein Kampf.
HE HAD *ALREADY* READ THEM.
That’s precisely why he wrote the book and that’s precisely how he got to where he got to.
In his 1920-1921 compilation “The International Jew,” Henry Ford lays out the facts that the Treaty of Versailles was a Semitic product. The average American rube didn’t know (and still don’t) who was behind it, but certainly the average German did. Of course at the time, nobody knew just how much suffering Versailles would ultimately cause for the German folk, as well as much of the world.
Dick-breath
“Dick-breath”
Cock Gobbler.
Hmmmm.. ….. what is this strange new thing he is talking about now, something about a wall?
The democrats have already offered Everify that we liked in paragraph 3, but then were disappointed in it by paragraph 5.
Honestly, I only feel to respond to articles where I find humor, I’m so done with breaking news about this one or that one is going down; I’ll believe it when CNN finally has to report it. Until then, its non-news.
I heard a conservative journalist say he has heard of many throwing in the towel, he went on to say they were wrong, because there are many tough SOB Americans out there who will say enough is enough; I’ll wait until CNN is forced to report it, until then, NON-NEWS.
Why doesn’t Trump just sign an order that the wall be built ? Why doesn’t he get the Army Core of Engineers build it ? Looks as if he never intended to build the wall.
Army Corps of Engineers
Black hole of corruption from hell
Not for Obama, it’s the Army Corpse of Engineers.
e verify is bs–
citizens should not have to be verified by the govt,it’s very big brotherish–
build the wall,disband the fsa,cut work comp & other mandated employee costs,increase the # of legal,lower income type immigrants w/the stipulation that under no circumstances can they stay permanently–
Tampico, that’s the Bracero program that Cesar Chavez fought to end. They lowered the wages for legal Hispanics working in the fields.
yipper,
i meant laborers generally,not just agricultural workers–
we have/are developing a permanent underclass in this country & imo about the only thing worse then that is our debt & in jc’s words,our spiritual malaise–
between our huge #s of effed up,lazy,”disabled”,living in mom/dad’s house while watching porn or playing video games(both of which i consider to be as bad as drugs) & generally bordering on worthless whites,let’s not get started on the black underclass,and more & more worthless hispanics(esp multi generational mexicans who access welfare & “caribbean”hispanics),we need laborers in this country–
until we disband the fsa & force people back into the workforce,who do you want working in your grandkid’s preschool,pattie the white preschool teacher who is such a slob that i have literally backed my truck up to her house & filled the bed w/bags of trash she let build up in her house,or juana the mex gal who has been vetted & understands that this is an opportunity,not a gimme?
nancy the nursing home attendant who is so filthy that i have had repairmen refuse to work in her trailer because of the thousands of roaches,or graciela the guatemalan worker?
who do you want coming onto your property while you’re not home to cut the lawn or do repairs,darnell dulnig, who just needs a few $ to make rent & support his habit so he works the labor pool or javier who never lays out of work & you don’t have to worry about him stealing or harming your family?
if we had a guest worker program where people were vetted & it was a serious crime to overstay a visa,we would help ourselves immensely–
Tampico, now you are bordering on the idea old Pangloss suggested; he said the USA has a system of internal empire, sucking the best and brightest from the poor states towards the empire in the NE. This didn’t fare well on the site but it doesn’t change the idea.
You propose to take the best from the Latin countries and leave them with the dregs the same way the south has been left with the Walmartian crowd while their best go north. America has always had that system and the tards applaud it without realizing they have let foreigners build their land so they can feel smug about how Great America is while lounging in their trailer.
So, how does e-verify deal with the 63,0oo Americans murdered by illegals, and counting? And, in one state in 2014, one month, 10 little girls were raped every day by illegals. Try again with the brain turned on fully.
Trump will chicken out again and sign another stopgap spending bill that doesn’t fund the wall.
Isk, you read in the papers how a shutdown is a lock, 65 to 35. In spite of all that hoopla, my guess is nobody wants to be twerking on the deal over Christmas. The outgoing Repukes certainly won’t want to spend their holidays haggling over a losing proposition.
They will simply pass a Continuing Resolution and go home. Of course, it ain’t a show without the pre-shutdown fanfare; how many tickets would Mike Tyson sell without the hoopla?
Note to self: spend more time on the pomp and circumstance parade before Consensual Saturday.
Makes me happy Joe Guzzardi is not in charge of anything. What a cuck. Great idea, Joe. Let’s leave the border open so the welfare rats can continue to pour across. Is Walmart paying you to write this? Then we can just throw a whole new regime of regulation on businesses while the welfare grift remains intact. You’re a star of critical thinking, Joe. Moron
E-verify could work well to stem part of the flow of illegals, but what of easy payments through welfare? Not all come for jobs; many also for the free “goodies”!
For two years the Dimwits have been banging their heads against Trump. And all they’ve done is uncover Hillary’s treason. I wouldn’t start betting against Trump.
Did you bang your head on the dance floor or did you just drop in from another dimension?
The illegal flow of aliens would stop immediately if you started locking up the employers. I am an employer and we don’t hire illegals. There’s no way in hell I would risk hiring illegals if I could end up in jail. Lock up a few employers hiring illegals and there will be no work for illegals. No work, no immigration.
Cui bono: big agri business and others who benefit immensely from the reduced wages. Like everything else, this is all about profits at the expense of future generations. Grab all you can now, who cares about what comes next.
How many illegals do you think work in Trump’s hotels?
If you haven’t figured out the elites don’t want to fix this problem, you’re not paying attention.
Suppose we have no wall(like now) and suppose people come here not knowing of E-verify(like now) and suppose those who do come here can still get welfare because they have no job(like now)…crap, where was I going with this?
I bet your still a virgin, Anon.
He’s not banging his head. He s running his mouth almost like he is a reality show host. Oh yeah, he is a reality show host.. All hat no cattle. He has been a con artist his whole life and hasn’t changed. The only thing worse than him is the Republican Party.