Immigration

Solve our jobs problem without spending $450 billion

September 8, 2011 | Matthew J. Weaver | Leave a comment

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How about something a bit cheaper than $400–500 billion? For every illegal with a job, there’s an American without one. At no additional cost to the U.S. taxpayer, require all employers to check current employees, including temps, on E-Verify.”–Matthew J. Weaver

While we are at it, kill the H1B and L1 visa programs. Stop giving away American jobs.

Fiscal Matters | Immigration | American Jobs Act, Barack Obama, E-Verify, H1B, illegal aliens, jobs, L1, unemployment

A Simple Plan to Fix Unemployment (and self-deport millions of illegal aliens)

September 4, 2011 | Matthew J. Weaver | Leave a comment

The single simplest and cheapest way to fix unemployment is two-fold: (1) Adopt E-Verify for all current and future employees, and (2) Require companies using H1B and L1 visa holders to hire an American to work side-by-side their imported labor to train and take over that job in 12 months.

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For every illegal removed from job, there’s an American getting one.”

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Fiscal Matters | Immigration | E-Verify, employment, H1B, immigration, L1, unemployment, visa

A Jobs Program We Can All Rally Around

September 3, 2011 | Matthew J. Weaver | Leave a comment

Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s got the right solution: “Sheriff Joe’s Jobs Program”.

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“Stealing people’s identity is a Class 4 felony, a very serious crime. With the unemployment problem, maybe they will hire legitimate U.S. citizens now to fill the five vacancies here and not hire those in this country illegally.”

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Immigration | Laws, Justice, and the Courts | felony unemployment, illegal aliens, immigration, Joe Arpaio, Sheriff Joe's Jobs Program

Commonsense from James Carville

September 1, 2011 | Matthew J. Weaver | Leave a comment

If there is one person I’d want as my advocate, it wouldn’t be Karl Rove, David Axelrod, or any of the others out there. No, it would be James Carville.

Today he offered clear advice on Obama’s error in attempting to schedule a presidential address to Congress next Wednesday. (Besides the fact that such a joint session is at the invitation of Congress not at the demand of the president.). On “Good Morning America” he explained:

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“I do think this is a really big debate, and I think the White House was out of bounds…in trying to schedule a speech during a debate.”

Given a “choice between watching a debate and the speech, I would have watched the debate and I’m not even a Republican or even close to being a Republican.”

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