Workplace Verification
That Works for America
Many of you are looking for additional ways to apply pressure to reduce overall immigration.
Please at least glance at the following list of tools you can use right now. Some of them are brand new (and some are older but new to you), so you'll want to take time to read this.
1. New Website Encourages Businesses to Stop Hiring Illegal Aliens
Illegals come because they are able to find businesses -- and individuals -- who will illegally hire them.
Although we have been giving you -- and will continue to do so -- lots of opportunities to push new federal legislation to make verification of legal status mandatory at every workplace, we now can give you a lot of things you can do in your own community.
We are proud of our new website dedicated to drying up a lot of those jobs. Please click here to visit SmartBusinessPractices.com today.
Or paste in this url into your browser:
http://www.smartbusinesspractices.com/
2. Tips to Ensure You or Your Business Don't Hire Illegal Aliens
We know from polls and from our own experience that most business owners would prefer to hire American workers and oppose expanded foreign guestworker proposals and hiring illegal aliens.
We also know that hundreds of you who send faxes through NumbersUSA.com are owners or operators of businesses.
Even more of you are individuals who occasionally hire others to do some work for you.
This website has lots of helpful advice on what the law requires and how you can be sure you are doing what the law asks and -- most importantly -- how you can be sure that everybody you hire is legally in this country and has the right to work.
Those of you in business can also read comments and tips from other business owners about the importance of halting the hiring of illegal aliens.
Unfortunately, the highly paid lobbyists for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce do not represent the wishes of the majority of businesses. Instead, they represent the loud minority of businesses that make huge profits off hiring foreign labor (legal and illegal) instead of Americans.
If you listened only to Chamber of Commerce pronouncements, you would never know that most business owners agree with the majority of the American people in wanting lower overall immigration.
So, it is very important for business owners to be connected to others like themselves who want to do the right thing for their communities while making reasonable profits for themselves.
3. Instructions for Reporting Possible Lawbreakers
On the homepage of SmartBusinessPractices.com, you will find links for instructions for reporting:
• businesses that engage in unfair practices such as hiring illegal aliens, wage exploitation, unsafe working conditions and non-payment of taxes on employees;
• any individual you suspect of using fraudulant ID cards or otherwise of being an illegal alien.
Of course, we all know that the federal government has understaffed these functions and that current Administration policies discourage vigorous enforcement.
But the more helpful reports that the feds get from citizens like you, the more that will provide ammunition to dedicated public servants who can then press their senior officials to look into your complaints -- and for congressional allies to be able to point to a large backlog of reports demanding more funding for enforcement.
Many people lose sight of the fact that allowing a business to hire illegal aliens is a profoundly anti-business action because it gives the "outlaw business" a competitive advantage over law-abiding businesses.
Be a friend to the community-minded, patriotic, law-abiding businesses in your area and report any businesses that are unfairly competing with illegal workers.
AND, EMAIL THE LINK TO THIS WEBSITE TO ALL OF YOUR BUSINESS FRIENDS.
4. Website Helps Find Homegrown Workers
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Be sure to use the link on our new website that connects you to the national internet registry where you can post jobs and try to get American workers for them.
If you are not an employer, familiarize yourself with this and give this information to any business person you ever hear complaining about not being able to find Americans to fill jobs.
5. Sign Up for Further Action with SBP Alerts - Start Pressuring Businesses to Join Federal Workplace Verification Program TODAY
On the SmartBusinessPractices.com homepage, you can learn about this program by clicking on the colorful icon at the top of the page entitled "Verification Program Now National."
In 1996, Congress lost its nerve in the face of Chamber of Commerce opposition and established a workplace verification system for only a half-dozen states -- and made it voluntary for businesses to participate.
Finally in 2003 with your support, Congress was persuaded to expand the voluntary program to all 50 states.
That means that every single business in every single location has no excuse for inadvertently hiring an illegal alien. Every honest business should be using this system.
NumbersUSA, as a small employer, is a member of the system and has found it works wonderfully when we hire new employees.
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The only reason not to check each new hire through E-Verify (formerly Basic Pilot Program) is that a business intends to break the law and hire illegal aliens. It is as simple as that. The system takes only a few minutes to use, is very easy and provides a business with the peace of mind that it has acted legally.
We want citizens in every community to begin pushing the verification system and exposing those businesses who don't use it.
Click here to take advantage of all these new tools.
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Fifty-seven percent of adults polled favor an immigration bill that incorporates imposing new fines on businesses that hire illegal aliens.
