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JUDICIARY COMMITTEE JUST DEFEATED THE POISON PILL AMENDMENT DESIGNED TO KILL MANDATORY E-VERIFY FOR THE REST OF THIS CONGRESS
PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT VICTORY TODAY
By a vote of 18-16, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee defeated an amendment by amnesty-champion Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) to eliminate the state preemption language in the mandatory E-Verify bill.
The reason this vote was so dangerous was because so many ANTI-amnesty conservative groups were lobbying anti-amnesty Republican Members so hard.
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H.R. 2885 passed 22-13 in a form that we believe we can move through the House and Senate and into law -- even by the end of THIS year.
We didn't lose on any of the dozens of amendments that were filed.
The key victory was defeat of an amendment to strip the state preemption language from the bill. It is a bit complicated to explain why that was such an important victory, so please read the explanation that I sent out earlier today that is below this message.
The one amendment that Chairman Lamar Smith lost was one to strip an exemption that allowed farmers to skip E-Verify for re-employing field workers they claimed they had employed in earlier years.
This exemption was something of a loophole meant to entice the big farm lobbies to support the bill. Instead, those lobbies have been running a high-priced national campaign to defeat mandatory E-Verify. Outlaw farmers who insist on hiring illegal labor deserved to have this loophole closed.
All the Democrat votes were for the amendment, as were Republicans Poe and Gohmert of Texas, Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, Gallegly of California and King of Iowa. Good for all of them. The Democrats were even quoting Republican Secretary of State of Kansas Kris Kobach that the exemption amounted to an amnesty for a lot of field workers. It was great to see all the Democrats opposing this "amnesty."
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