Exit question: Should we read any trends into the fact that Napolitano, a Democrat, feels obliged to crack down here on immigration or is this just another fluke from the state that put two Republicans in the Senate only to have them take the lead on shamnesty?

No you shouldn’t. In fact, if you research a little news on this, I believe she previously vetoed some fairly strict legislation that would have also gone a long way towards addressing the problem….possibly right before the ’06 election if my memory serves.

In this instance, and even in the article about it, there is mentioned a more harsh measure that the citizens of AZ are trying to get on the ballot. This is an attempt to head that off. The thinking is that this legislation might possibly lessen the need for the citizens petition to get the other measure on the ballot, which they admit is likely to pass overwhelmingly.

Monthly or quarterly, employers have to send employee’s tax and social security withholdings to the state and federal governments. Each employee’s name and social security number, along with wages and withholdings are reported. The government then sends a statement (yearly I think) telling the employer that one or more of the names submitted doesn’t match the social submitted with it. It could be a clerical error, or indication that the employee is using a fake number. At that point, two or three things could happen.

1. If the employer doesn’t know the employee is illegal, he can ask the employee to correct the social. Perhaps another year will pass in that case.
2. If the employer knows, he will ignore it. Nothing happens.
3. The feds can send INS to investigate. They DO KNOW where the people work who are submitting mismatched names and numbers. But the gov’t WON’T enforce it cause they don’t want to.
4. The employer can fire the employee and risk a suit.
5. The employer can contact INS and be a policeman.

JiangxiDad on July 3, 2007 at 1:46 PM

If only it really worked. I know of a case in CO where a citizen had his SS# stolen without knowing it. The way he found out? He got a letter from the IRS stating he had to pay more taxes. They had some problems with numbers he filed. To make a long story short he was able to track down the illegal alien that was using his ss number and civily sue him. Yes he still had to pay income taxes on the money he did not make. The judge that was over the case is a friend of mine. He found for the guy and made the illegal pay some right there. He got about 500 and was owed around another 1000. He never got it. the illegal high tailed it and was never heard from again. So you see who’s side the IRS is on. Their own. They want their money and they don’t care who really owes it.

As a resident of Nevada: Here come the illegals from Arizona. They’re like illegal illegals.

illegal illegals…that’s the best one I hear in awhile.

Lol. Thanks, but I think all of us AZans share the doubt…

Sorry, credit should be yours for the bat butt.

Mea culpa der fledermaus.

(_))^^..^^..^^..^^

…when bats fly out of her a$$…

I’d like to see a photoshopping of that image!

(__))^^..^^..^^..^^

(That’s the best I can do with the tools at hand.)

Right on the money bro (or broette). This woman is a joke. The folks who live here understand that. This will be enforced when bats fly out of her a**…

No match No hire! Lo siento amigo.

It’s a no-brainer. Now that is solved let’s build a nice fence.

…this is just the next phase of Shamnesty … by removing illegal alien labor from their local market and making a mess, and blaming it on the anti-alien forces.

Jaibones on July 3, 2007 at 12:22 PM

You may be right but it could also backfire. Those illegals, if they’re forced out of the Arizona market, will most likely go to other states where there aren’t so many illegals right now. The citizens of those states will then gain a new understanding of what this debate is all about as they begin to feel like outsiders in their own neck of the woods.

The guest workers should be limited in the types of jobs they can do, mainly to agriculture, although some in construction. None should be allowed in the food preparation industry until they undergo health screening.

Hours after the Senate voted against advancing the immigration reform project, the Mexican activist Elvira Arellano announced a campaign of resistance against the U.S. government.

In a written statement, the leader of the movement Familia Unida (United Family) said that “if the Democrats and the Republicans cannot summon the courage to fix the broken law we will not sit quietly and see our families and our children cut to pieces on the broken pieces of that broken law.”

She demanded an immediate moratorium on all raids and deportations.

Arellano, who has remained in a Northwest Side church since August 15 to avoid an order of deportation, said this would be the deadline the government will have to “revive and pass a comprehensive immigration reform.”

Otherwise, pro-immigrant organizers will begin a campaign “aimed at bringing this government and this economy to a halt.”

Representatives from the Centro Sin Fronteras and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights also announced this morning they were prepared to take “economic actions” against corporations that support anti immigrant legislators and programming.

Also, a massive concentration of families and children is scheduled for July 17 in Washington D.C. to “confront the leaders of both parties and the President.”

- The Cat