Houston Area Liberty Campaign

[By Suzanne Gamboa, Associated Press]

The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half of the unauthorized workers it checks, a research company has found.

The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to Westat, a research company that evaluated the system for the Homeland Security Department. E-Verify missed so many illegal workers mainly because it can’t detect identity fraud, Westat said.

“Clearly it means it’s not doing its No. 1 job well enough,” said Marc Rosenblum, a researcher at the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan Washington think tank.

E-Verify allows employers to run a worker’s information against Department of Homeland Security and Social Security databases to check whether the person is permitted to work in the U.S. The Obama administration has made cracking down on employers who hire people here illegally a central part of its immigration enforcement policy, and there are expectations that some Republicans in Congress will try in coming weeks to make E-Verify mandatory.
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Texas colleges and universities are in murky legal waters when they give instate tuition to illegal aliens while discriminating against US citizens [1], according to an opinion issued by the Texas Attorney General on July 27th.

I wanted to pass along this good news resulting from the tireless work of patriotic State Rep. Leo Berman, who kept pushing when others might have given up:

http://www.tylerpaper.com/article/20090725/NEWS08/907250314

Contact Representative Berman here to pass along your thanks:

http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/dist6/berman.php

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Illegal Immigrants May Pay Full Tuition Price

By ADAM RUSSELL
Staff Writer

Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler, said he has won a battle against illegal immigrants within the state regarding in-state tuition benefits with an opinion rendered Thursday night (July 27th) by the state attorney general’s office.

Berman said despite his struggles to push immigration legislation during the recently convened legislative session, an opinion he filed more than a year ago will begin addressing benefits reserved for citizens.

It means at least we have won one case finally,” he said. “We tried to pass a lot of (immigration) bills this past session, and they were denied because of an agreement that was made with the Democrats at the beginning of the session not to hear any bills dealing with illegal aliens.”

One of the bills would have repealed in-state tuition benefits for undocumented immigrants, he said, but died along with other legislation.

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