Persistence has resulted in an implicit victory for the European American majority.
Time after time after time over the last year, NumbersUSA’s membersmobilized to advance E-Verify and close off millions more jobs toillegal aliens. And just as many times, you suffered defeat. It is ohso difficult to maintain perseverance amidst so many losses, but youdid. And your perseverance led to a gigantic victory today as the ObamaAdministration made a huge leap in immigration enforcement.
Remember our narrow losses last winter in trying to persuade the Congress to require all economic stimulus jobs to go through E-Verify?
Well, our victory today essentially makes that happen.
Starting today, every contract over $100,000 that the federal government awards will be on paper that tells the contractor:
- for every new hire in the entire corporation, run him/her through E-Verify to keep illegal aliens from getting jobs,
- for every existing employee who works on the actual federalcontract, run him/her through E-Verify, no matter how many years he/shehas already been employed — to force illegal aliens out of their jobs.
And every company that gets a subcontract from a federal contractorthat is worth $3,000 or more will have to abide by the same E-Verifyrules.
It is estimated that over the next year, most companies doingfederal contract work will have obtained at least one contract sincetoday and, therefore, be mandated to use E-Verify.
Some estimates are that the number of new hires covered by E-Verify will go from a little over 10% to 20% of total new hires.
I have been trying to think of when we have had a bigger singleimprovement in the battle against illegal immigration. The 1996 Act mayhave been, but I think it was more promise that actual change at thetime. This is something that will yield results immediately andincreasingly so each passing month.
This is an unlikely gift from two Presidents who routinely opposenearly everything we stand for on immigration. This mandate on federalcontractors was promulgated by Pres. Bush, a last-minute kiss fromsomebody who gave us the kiss-off the rest of his presidency. But hesaddled Pres. Obama with having to let it go through or publiclyoverturn it. Obama postponed it several times this year. But when a federal court last monthruled there was nothing wrong about Bush’s executive order, Obamaapparently felt he had no choice. So, now we have this wonderful newand powerful enforcement device to take the job magnet away fromillegal immigration.
Why did this wonderful thing come from two Presidents who would likenothing better than reward all illegal aliens with U.S. citizenship?
It all relates to the fact that both have felt enormous publicpressure to stop inviting illegal aliens to enter our country and takeour jobs.
And you, dear citizens and users of the NumbersUSA tools,have kept the pressure on every day of every week of this past year.And that includes a tremendous outpouring of phone calls and faxes thispast week, urging that Pres. Obama allow this new E-Verify mandate togo into effect.
ROY BECK is CEO & Founder of NumbersUSA