Quick Picks: Employee Verification Delays and Obama’s Perpetual Campaign
Quick Picks focuses on a select few of the day’s stories from “Breaking on the Web.”
- A new requirement that most federal contractors verify the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States has been delayed for the second time, the Washington Post reports. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she believes in the requirement but has concerns the system, E-Verify, will not be able to handle the increased volume of queries.
- Obama criticized the Bush administration for running a perpetual campaign and allowing political operatives like Karl Rove access to the Oval Office. But, according to the Politico, he appears to be pursuing a similar strategy, ignoring calls to close the White House Office of Political Affairs and giving his own version of Karl Rove, David Axelrod, a place in the administration, along with many other former campaign staffers.
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1 comments
jskdn
Jan. 31, 2009, 6:31 p.m.
Apparently “Change” is not about politicians ending their ubiquitous lying about anything to do with illegal immigration; the only change is which politicians are now telling the lies. Obama said he would end the incentives for being here illegally though employment enforcement and the first chance he gets he stops the use of the only program that does that reasonably well. Millions of legally entitled workers are unemployed and Obama thinks anything that would get in the way of federal contractors hiring illegal immigrants ought to be stopped.
The question I have is ProPublica included among the vast majority of media organizations that eschew any sense of journalistic principles around the subject of illegal immigration? Or does truth actually matter to the people who work there?
There’s nothing to justify the administration’s claim that somehow E-verify isn’t ready for the added load. That just requires adding additional servers, hardly a formidable technical barrier. The database does a good job and with every one of the already low rate of errors that occur, that database gets more accurate. The reality is that all the pro-illegal immigration groups like the Chamber of Commerce, the ethnic lobbies, and the unions show that the Obama administration is just more of the same.
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