As Facing South reported earlier, a bipartisan group of former Census directors urged Congress to reject the measure because it would "put the accuracy of the enumeration in all communities at risk and would likely delay the start of the census."
But Sen. Vitter and the amendment's co-sponsor, Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT), are planning to move forward when the appropriation bill for the 2010 Census comes up for a vote.
That has lead Service Employees International Union to launch a "Don't Wreck the Census" campaign, which leads with this call to action:
"Some politicians come up with dumb ideas. Some come up with impractical ideas that would cost taxpayers millions of dollars. And then there are those lawmakers with crazy proposals that would violate the United States Constitution.1"
Republican Senators Vitter and Bennett hit the trifecta by trying to wreck the US Census.
SEIU goes on to note that the Vittter/Bennett measure would force the Census Bureau to reprint 120 million forms and face other logistical hurdles -- all with the Census less than six months away.
Which is exactly why the amendment is unlikely to pass. But, like Rep. Joe Wilson's "you lie!' moment, stirring up the immigration debate is red meat for the Republican base -- especially in Southern states, where Latino immigration is rising fastest.
For more on SEIU's campaign, visit here.
Sen. Durbin D-IL has reined supreme in oratory guile that has a strong foundations in Congress. Dick Durbin's speeches supposedly a defender of unemployed Americans, while behind the lines he makes Americans jobless. As with Sen.Harry Reid D-NV, Assistant majority leader Durbin, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given there assurance to promote E-Verify, but also heavily approved a need for a path to citizenship or AMNESTY for the 20 to 30 million already squatting here. Although he commiserates the 125,000 who have recently lost their unemployment benefits, he disregards the fact that his immigration policies now in place has awarded 125,000 brand new work permits to foreign nationals this last month. Such is the capability for self-deception in Congress that I wonder if Sen. Durbin and his foreign-labor-in-shoring conspirators have any inkling of awareness in counter-production. Sen. Durbin, Sen. Harry Reid is just one of the dozen Members of Congress utterly accountable for seeing to it that ANOTHER 125,000 Americans each month are kept out of a work. Its this politicians uncouth insistence on providing cheap labor to pariah employers, that draws millions--no matter the danger--into America. Call your own Senators or Congressman 202-224-3121 and demand they make sure that the unemployment benefit extension keeps money out of the hands of illegal aliens. Sen. Sessions amendment uses E-Verify to authenticate a US workers right to 14 more weeks of these benefits.
Then although California is a sanctuary state, not all cities believe in these refuge policies, such as San Diego. It seems that the federal contractors in Southernmost California city appreciate the new E-Verify ruling. The federal mandate requires all businesses with federal contracts of at least $100,000 and lasting longer than 120 days to use E-Verify and that all new hires must go through a verification procedure. San Diego industries receive a large portion of contracts, and it's proximity to the Mexican border makes it vulnerable to volumes of illegal workers. Currently more than 160,000 businesses are operating E-Verify with close to 13,000 of them in the State of California. In the recently passed Homeland Security spending bill, Congress re-authorized E-Verify for three more years. Now E-Verify has shown a powerful ally in removing foreign nationals in working establishments nationwide. It's success and easy access by employers has shown its immigration enforcement ability.
NOW IS THE TIME TO MAKE E-VERIFY PERMANENT , BEFORE CORRUPT LAWMAKERS SOMEHOW WEAKEN IT? ITS VERY LIKELY A NEW IMMIGRATION BILL WILL BE IN THE HANDS OF OUR POLITICIANS EARLY NEXT YEAR. WE ALREADY HAVE THE 1986 IMMIGRATION BILL, WHICH HAS BEEN INTENTIONALLY ENGINEERED FOR BUSINESSES & OPEN BORDER ZEALOTS. IF IT PASSES A THIRD OF THE INDIGENT WORLD, WILL SWARM OUR UNDERMANNED BORDERS. E-VERIFY WORKS! BY ATTRITION OR SELF-DEPORTATION ILLEGAL WORKERS AND FAMILIES WILL LEAVE IF NO JOBS ARE AVAILABLE. VIOLATIONS OF IMMIGRATION LAWS MUST CARRY STRICT PENALTIES, INCLUDING PRISON TERMS & HEAVY FINES.
In regards 2010 census in 6 months? Those who entered without--THE PEOPLE'S--permission, have violated our laws, and should not, must not be allowed to be enumerated in the decennial census? Is Washington so sure that they will pass this 2nd Amnesty, when Ted Kennedy previous comprehensive immigration reform turned into fraudulent travesty? As I see it nobody by their skin color, religion or if they are homosexual who are legally in this nation, who have been inspected and entered with work visas should be welcomed. They as other honest new arrivals did not cheat our immigration system, but perhaps waited for years to be recognized as a permanent resident?
Read more information about the ugly consequences of illegal immigration, its costs to taxpayer, the danger to our national language and our culture at NUMBERSUSA. Find undisclosed details of corruption within our government and rampant dishonesty in ACORN at JUDICIAL WATCH. Learn about irreversible OVERPOPULATION and the complete indifference to our failing infrastructure at CAPSWEB. This week the Bay Bridge between San Francisco and Oakland needed repair when rusted cables ripped apart. The Bay Bridge was originally constructed in 1936 and carries 270.000 vehicles a day,
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