As more people read the Bush-Kennedy-McCain immigration “reform” monstrosity, more nasty surprises pop out of the fine print.
Consider this all-too-possible scenario: You were born in the U.S. and you’ve worked here all your adult life. But a bureaucratic snafu in the Department of Homeland Security results in you being denied an employment certificate that makes you a legal employee. After hours of shuttling from one bureaucrat to another, then waiting fruitlessly for weeks to receive the promised proof that your certificate has been issued, in desperation you call your congressman. His case worker promises to do everything possible to help but warns that you are “at the back of a line of hundreds of the congressman’s constituents who have the same problem.”
Recommended Stories
In other words, straightening things out with creditors after your identify is stolen will look like a cakewalk compared to the bureaucratic nightmare that awaits millions of citizens if the immigration “reform” becomes law.
The problem, as described by analysts at the conservative Heritage Foundation, centers on Title III of the proposal which establishes a new Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS) in the Department of Homeland Security.
The basic purpose of the new system is to prevent illegal immigrants from getting jobs, but the unintended consequences will be costly new problems for employers and endless headaches for millions of citizens.
Every individual now working would be required to provide proof of his or her status by obtaining a new certificate of eligibility from Homeland Security. Heritage says the pilot EEVS has previously confirmed 87 percent of the work force.
But the proposal requires everybody in the work force to be recertified and gives Homeland Security 18 months to complete the process. Heritage calculates that just processing the 13 percent who weren’t previously certified will require Homeland Security to process up to 40,000 people each day, seven days a week, to meet the deadline.
To be blunt, this won’t happen in 18 months. It won’t be done in twice that time. And we haven’t even mentioned processing the millions of applications for the new Z work visas that the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal immigrants will have to get to keep their current jobs.
Worse is the certainty that millions of paper-shuffling mistakes will be made by Homeland Security bureaucrats. Consequently, legions of law-abiding American citizens will lose their jobs until they can get their government papers in order.
Plus, as is always the case with new government regulations, most of the costs for implementing this system in every workplace inAmerica will be paid by the companies that create jobs in the first place.
So the end result of the Bush/Kennedy/McCain amnesty deal for 12 million to 20 million illegal immigrants will be that hard-working, tax-paying, job-creating Americans will bear the cost and bureaucratic burdens of “fixing” the problem.
Put another way, middle America is about to get the shaft from Washington yet again.
