› Steve King’s New IDEA: Help Save American Jobs

In a recent article, my friend Steve King talked about the administration’s new plans to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.  He accurately argues that while there are over 15 million American citizens that are unemployed there are 8 million illegal aliens that are holding what should be American jobs.  In this economic climate, there is no such thing as a “job an American wouldn’t do.”  Our citizens need work and President Obama wants to eliminate the only reason employers find illegally hiring illegal aliens as lucrative – by granting them amnesty.  If and when this would happen we then see an additional 8 million individuals who now cost a lot more money to employ and unemployment jumps up yet again as do the costs of social welfare.

In this article, King offers his own plan, New IDEA, and I fully support this IDEA (Illegal Deduction Elimination Act).  We need real action against illegal immigration and it doesn’t work to just grant them amnesty.  We need to send them home.  Create a temporary work visa that some can apply for but allow only a limited number of them.  Get them out of our borders and get these jobs filled by actual American citizens. Let’s not make all of America suffer through what California has.

Rasmussen, on March 3rd, came out with a poll that showed 67% of Americans consider illegal aliens a financial strain on the US.  While only 19% think this is untrue, Democratic leadership still goes against the voice of the American people to try to pull together an amnesty bill before they lose their power in November.  How out of touch is our current political leadership in Congress & the Whitehouse?  They go against us on cap and trade.  They go against us on healthcare.  They go against us on giving $100 billion of our dollars to the world for climate change.  Now they go against us regarding immigration.  This is the audacity of corruption.

Rather, we need to press forward with Rep. King’s proposal that makes E-verify permanent and accessible to all employers nationwide.  Employers that use E-verify will have protection if in fact any of their employees are found to be illegal.  Those who fail to do this will have tax and benefit penalties.

Like King said, “We must reject amnesty, pass New IDEA, get Americans back to work and dramatically reduce the strain of illegal immigration on our economy.”

It is time to fight back against the corruption of the Obama administration and Congressional leadership.  Bring the power back to the people.  Enforce our immigration policy and get Americans back to work.