Latino immigrants suddenly avoiding the DMV

[Neal]

Sound response Tim, and a good idea. Now why do I feel “Pedro” is an Oregon-hater in thin disguise..?“Beaverton” maybe?

Sorry, though I suspect I’m right, I’ll hold onto your idea of Instant Insurance Verification. But you’re also right in that too may big players (employers) want to keep things just the way they are.

Think of the wage increases, work-place safety and healthcare benefits those employers would have to consider if hiring US Citizens. It’s much easier for them to continue to pay less than living wages, ignore safety and skip health care with a constant supply of desperate labor.

So “Pedro,” are you legal? And “Open season” on who?

Another sad fact in this debate is the constant and purposeful disruption coming from the far left … A supporter of much of ‘their’ agenda, they lose credibility (and my support) hanging on to this issue. Please, for the sake our nation, look for serious ways to curb this abuse of our national goodness; like Tim.

[claudia in StHelens]

i like your sticker idea, tim...but here is what i do know...that might be the flaw.
a lot of people get insurance just long enough to get a card (or sticker) then cancel it. they need the card and acct number to register the car or get a license...but nothing stops them from not making the next payment...or cancelling. sigh

[Tim]

You are correct Claudia. One only has to show it to DMV upon getting or registering for a license. The sticker UPC bar code would easily tell if the insurance has lapsed or not either. It's a world of computers and hi-tech these days. It's just a matter of using it to promote the correct agenda. The insurance companies would love this since everyone would have to get insurance no matter how little coverage(liability by law) and more money into the general insurance pool for that insurance company. It would kind of be like universal car insurance. Look how much one pays because we have to have insurance for uninsured drivers? The one downside I can perhaps see is that insurance companies don't want EVERYBODY. Those of high risk and previous DUIs. Anything can be worked out though.

[claudia in StHelens]

its a great step in the right direction, tim. i agree completely.
im just a bit gun shy tho.
i have had 2 cars totalled by unlicensed,uninsured, unregistered non english speaking people!!! unless they are stopped by the police for some reason, no one will know if they have insurance,etc, before the hit someone...and that victim gets to pay the bill.
but i do applaud you for working in the right direction.
that uninsured motorist crap didn't pay to replace my cars at all..not a single penny.
it only helped cover medical expenses.
it galls me to pay a dime for those not abiding by the law.

[Neal]

The Senate may take up the reauthorization of the E-Verify program within days. E-Verify is the DHS program that enables employers to check employment eligibility of workers. If the E-Verify program is not reauthorized before the end of November, it will expire.

The House has already passed H.R. 6633 reauthorizing the E-Verify program, but in the Senate, Sen. Menendez (R- NJ) and some others are trying to force the Senate to add an amendment bringing in 550,000 more foreign workers, claiming that these visas were unused left-over visas from previous years. This claim is false.

Please call, fax, or email Senators Wyden and Smith, and urge them to support passage of H.R. 6633 with no strings attached and no foreign worker visas.

[Neal]

WASHINGTON (September 18, 2008)– The E-Verify program, which allows employers to check the immigration status of new employees, has been steadily improving and is now 99.5 percent accurate, according to a new paper by the Center for Immigration Studies. This voluntary program is already screening more than one in ten new hires nationwide, and as of September 13, 2008, has processed 6.21 million queries.

E-Verify is set to expire on November 30, 2008, unless it is re-authorized by Congress. The House of Representatives has already passed a reauthorization bill by a vote of 407-2, while the Senate has not yet taken action.

To help inform debate over E-Verify, the Center for Immigration Studies has produced a thorough evaluation. The Backgrounder, entitled “If It’s Fixed, Don’t Break It: Moving Forward with E-Verify,” is authored by Janice Kephart, Director of National Security Studies at the Center and a former counsel to the 9/11 Commission. The report covers the many facets of the E-Verify debate: statistics regarding usage, cost, and effectiveness; legislative history; executive orders affecting the program; the relationship of E-Verify to worksite enforcement; and past improvements to the program as well as future goals.

The report is available online at www.cis.org . Among the findings:

# As of the first half of FY 2007, only one-half of one percent of eligible employees screened had to take additional steps to obtain work authorization; overall, the system is 99.5% accurate.

# More than 93 percent of employees are verified within five seconds; another 1.2 percent are verified within 24 hours. A new Photo Screening Tool and a streamlined procedure for naturalized citizens to receive authorization are increasing accuracy and efficiency for employers and employees; naturalized citizens no longer need to take remedial action at Social Security.

# About 5 percent of new employees are not confirmed as work authorized, mirroring the same percentage of illegal aliens estimated to be in the labor force.

# When E-Verify became web-based later in 2004, 1,533 employers had signed up. As of September 13, 2008, there are 85,816 employers representing over 446,000 sites and over 6.21 million queries processed. Currently, about 1,000 new employers join per week.

# Eleven states require use of E-Verify in certain circumstances (AZ, CO, GA, ID, MN, MO, MS, NC, OK, RI, and UT).

[julianie]

STEVE FROM CALI wrote:

you wanna fist fight huh?

Ya that will solve EVERYTHING good Idea!!!! Stupid

[julianie]

Native Oregonian 11002 wrote:

I remember growing up during the 70s we used to go to Sauvie's Island a lot to the farms to pick our own veggies and berries, or sometimes to Yamhill County to pick grapes off the vine, or to the apple orchards in Washington.
I remember there were a lot of Latinos every time we went, and a lot of times a lot of the teenage kids would scream "La Migra" at the tops of their lungs just to get a kick out of watching the Latinos run scared.
Every time this happened when my Dad was with us he'd go over to the kids and lecture them on their insensitive behavior and ask them how they would like if they were in the shoes of the Latinos. Always reminded me of the old Indian saying to not judge a person until you walked a mile in their moccasins.

Well how about you go to mexico and try to walk in them and see.

[julianie]

steve wrote:

how about you gimme some head!

With comments like that makes you sound like a little punk.

[pedro Smith]

que paso?

[crackasmacka]

rick wrote:

<quoted text>no thats what you crackers are for! now your the minority bitch how you like me now ?

It's funny how they talk smack on here because they're too scared to say it to our faces.

[pincheputos]

You stole this country from us and now we're taking it back, if you don't like it go back to Europe where you crackers belong. I'm so sick of you people. Leave your women though, since they like dark meat better than your little pail penises

[pincheputos]

claudia in StHelens wrote:

We really need to stop pandering to illegals NOW!
A local talk show host is getting together a protest group against the day labor center that mr.potter thought to spend OUR money on in Portland.
To let her know you support her efforts...and those of mr. wennig...
go to kpam.com and click on victoria taft link and sign up to be counted.

We are not illegal, you are, this is our continent, we have a right to live, work and drive anywhere we want. If you don't like go back to Europe.

[GEO]

NOW the state should make it law you have to Have Oregon ID or a drivers license to work here.

[American]

What will happen to those nice red decals that have 1 - 12 printed on them, giving illegals time to bring their vechiles up to stantard?

[GEO]

Now if the goverment makes in mandatory to have an Oregon Id or drivers license to work in Oregon..
Can't drive, can't work..

Bye,Bye

[Jerry singer]

pincheputos wrote:

You stole this country from us and now we're taking it back, if you don't like it go back to Europe where you crackers belong. I'm so sick of you people. Leave your women though, since they like dark meat better than your little pail penises

And who did YOU steal it from? Are you pure indian? And if you are....you are part Asian that came from the land bridge by Alaska.HA HA HA. Or Hispanic whose ancestral mamas got nailed by european SPAINARDS. Who cares. You are from California of which is not part of the United States in my mind or many others. At least not in northern Idaho. You live in the squalor of your Mexifornia...I'll stay up here. Adios.

[Secret Muslim Brotherhood]

I agree the mexicans are not very bright at all and will end up as an extinict race by the other smarter races.

[Palins witch doctor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

[Bill of Wrongs]

too bad they don't also avoid the liquor store and driving.