Rep. DeFazio Outraged Over Stimulus Money Being Used for Foreign Worker Visas

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Rep. DeFazio Outraged Over Stimulus Money Being Used for Foreign Worker Visas

November 4, 2011 in Immigration by mike

Rep. Peter DeFazio Stands up for Unemployed Americans Amid Visa Abuse

Thursday, November 3, 2011, 12:34 PM EDT – posted on NumbersUSA

Rep. Peter DeFazio

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Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) spoke out against Oregonian forestry contractors who used stimulus money to hire legal foreign workers instead of unemployed Americans. Earlier this year, Rep. DeFazio introduced the bi-partisan Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification and Illegal Immigration Control Act (H.R.483) that would require all businesses to use E-Verify. Oregon’s unemployment rate is slightly above the national average, standing at 9.6%.

Rep. DeFazio responded to a Department of Labor report that found that Oregonian forestry contractors abused the H-2B visa program to use stimulus money to hire foreign workers.

“We’ve set up a system that is easily gamed,” Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said.

According to the Department of Labor report, the forestry contractors hired 254 seasonal workers holding H-2B visas costing at least $7 million of stimulus money. The H-2B visa requires that employers demonstrate that there are no available American workers before requesting the visas. But forestry contractors advertised for the jobs in small newspapers and began the hiring process months before the actual work began, causing issues for unemployed Americans collecting unemployment benefits.

“These people still could have made a profit and employed Oregonians. How greedy are they?” Rep. DeFazio said. “I thought about different angles on how we could prosecute these people. Unfortunately, we can’t. Which is a shame.”

For more information on this story, see Oregon Live.

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Three sheriffs push for federal Secure Communities program

September 25, 2011 in MA, Secure Communities by mike

Deval Patrick and his Minions propagation of the myth that the Secure Communities program was deporting illegal aliens with noncriminal records has been clarified by ICE.

“Federal immigration officials released new statistics last week to bolster their assertion that the agency is focusing on deporting criminals and, in another priority, on flagrant violators of immigration law.

According to the figures, which cover October 2008 to July 31 of this year, 52 percent of the 369 immigrants deported from Boston were convicted criminals.

About 48 percent of the deportees had no prior criminal record. But the agency provided new details that showed for the first time that most noncriminal deportees were more serious violators of immigration law, including 68 people with outstanding deportation orders and 49 people who allegedly returned to the United States after having been deported - a felony offense, though they were not convicted of it.

The remaining 60 noncriminal deportees had allegedly crossed the border illegally or overstayed their visas. The federal agency has touted Secure Communities as an initiative that could make cities and towns safer.

Federal officials said that the program helped find Joao Brito in Boston, who was wanted in his native Netherlands on charges of human smuggling and sexual abuse of children.”

The ICE clarification confirms testimony presented by Jessica Vaughan an expert on , Director of Policy Studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, to Governor Patrick’s public safety Secretary, Mary Beth Heffernan. Testimony that was ignored when the governor caved in and blocked Secure Communities implementation in MA.

Governor Patrick even now continues his deception with his statement that “…he is concerned Secure Communities could lead to ethnic profiling” . This though he full well knows that the FBI policy related to him is to forward solely fingerprints to ICE for identification. That’s right, no photos, no physical or ethnic description for everyone arrested.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-04/news/30113272_1_deporting-immigration-officials-illegal-immigrants

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