“No Match Rule” Means Trouble for Citizens; Toughest Sheriff in America; and Pope Benedict XVI Critiqued by Tancredo
⺓No Match Rule” Means Trouble for Citizens
According to a press release by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), should the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) proposed “no match” rule goes into effect, it will result in the mass firings of U.S. citizens and other authorized workers and have a devastating impact on American businesses and the economy.
Lucas Guttentag, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project Director, said that relying on the error-filled Social Security database is a recipe for disaster punishing hardworking lawful workers, deny jobs to U.S. citizens and cause discrimination and retaliation against workers who may appear foreign or who assert their workplace rights. “Rather than punishing American workers who will be the innocent victims of a fatally deficient database, the administration should abandon this rule unless it can guarantee that no American worker will lose her job,” Guttentag said.
“The rule, which was republished on March 26 for public comment, would unlawfully use the error-ridden Social Security Administration (SSA) database for immigration enforcement by requiring employers to fire workers who are unable to resolve discrepancies in their Social Security records,” the press release said.
âºThe “Toughest Sheriff” in America
Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff, Joe Arpaio calls himself “the toughest sheriff in America” now; he’s being accused on racial profiling after arresting 150 people in predominately Latino areas. According to the Arizona Republic, the mayor of Phoenix, Phil Gordon even went as far as saying that the sheriff was singling out people driving with a broken taillight or brown skin.
According to the same report, the sheriff has been known to making jailed inmates wear pink underwear, assigning them to old style chain gangs, and serving inmates green bologna sandwiches. Sheriff Arpaio has arrested about nine hundred people since Arizona law allowed him under a state smuggling law. A hotline was even set up to report violations.
âºTancredo critiques Pope on Immigration
Anti-immigration activist Tom Tancredo “out-Tancredoed” himself, while on the House floor critiquing Pope Benedict XVI’s comments about immigrants. In a press release, Tancredo said he would like to know what part of U.S. immigration policy is violent.
“I fail to see how accepting more refugees than any other nation –and providing free health care, education, housing and social service benefits to millions of illegal aliens is in any way ‘violent’ or ‘degrading’,” Tancredo said.
In a direct quote from his press release, Tancredo says: “Pope Benedict XVI has made amnesty a key issue in his papacy. He met with President Bush, reportedly adding his voice to the open-border lobby by encouraging Bush to provide blanket amnesty to all illegal immigrants in the United States.”
It gets better, Tancredo also cited a recent report indicating that the “Catholic Church…has been losing members rapidly — as much as a third of the native-born Catholic population. Meanwhile, it has gained members among foreign-born (mostly Hispanic) residents.”
“I suspect the Pope’s immigration comments may have less to do with spreading the gospel than they do about recruiting new members of the church,” said Tancredo. “This isn’t preaching it is ‘faith-based’ marketing.” Now that’s Tan-crazy.
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