Sunday, February 15, 2009

Democrats undercut aid for U.S. workers

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-11-feb11,0,657719.column

With all the hoopla over greasy pork being stuffed into President Barack Obama's near trillion-dollar spending bill, it's what is being cut out that's receiving too little attention.

And once Americans realize it, they won't be happy.

What's been quietly stripped is a provision that would have required any businesses receiving federal stimulus cash to use an easy computer program called E-Verify to make sure that the jobs they generate go to American citizens or documented foreign workers, not illegal immigrants.

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