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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]democrats owned this issue 20 years ago.  we were the party of the workers.  Now we are the party of the undocumented workers.  it wasn't clinton that lost , it was the policy.   the sooner we remember this the sooner we can give the boot to pelosi and schumer and start electing a new generation of Democrats that are focused on US citizens.[/quote]
Not that long ago, many conservatives and tea partiers were against e-verify.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/182151-conservatives-pan-gops-e-verify-bill
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A growing chorus of conservatives is hammering a Republican proposal requiring businesses to verify the legal status of the workers they hire.[/b]

The conservative critics – including Republican lawmakers, Tea Party groups and border-state governors – are airing a long string of complaints: From fears the bill will erode civil liberties; to worries it will harm the agriculture industry; to concerns that it simply won't work.
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Tea Party groups are also panning the proposal. On Thursday, a number of those organizations – including the the Republican Liberty Caucus, the Liberty Coalition and Take Back Washington – wrote to every member of Congress warning that the bill "poses a threat to both the Constitution and every law-abiding citizen of this country."

The groups said the bill jeopardizes small businesses with expensive new paperwork burdens, violates individuals' rights to work and establishes "a de facto national I.D. system – even for citizens."

"The dangerous and intrusive precedent set by the bill opens the floodgate of additional incursive and contentious employment verification hurdles. Mission creep is the signature of all bureaucracies," the groups wrote.

"After enactment of the Legal Workforce Act, employers could soon be required to verify whether employees are delinquent in the payment of federal, state, or local taxes, in compliance with child support or alimony decrees, on a terrorist watch list, or convicted or even accused of crime."

[b]Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination, has also attacked E-verify, saying last year that it “would not make a hill of beans’ difference in what’s happening today."[/b]

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so you let conservatives tell you what to think?  what a progressive[/quote]

Smartest type of progressive, IMHO. [/quote]

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