Doug McIntyre: Rules for immigrants don't seem to matter
 

Doug McIntyre: Rules for immigrants don't seem to matter
Apparently, California can't have too many illegal immigrants.
Beginning with the LAPD's infamous Special Order 40 (which prohibits the police from initiating a stop based on suspicion of violating our nation's immigration laws), sanctuary laws have spread throughout California and then nationwide.
L.A. told the world, "Come here, no questions asked!" and we literally ask no questions.
No questions are asked at our hospitals. No questions are asked when applying for Section 8 housing. No questions are asked on any government applications for social services in the city of L.A.
We make no distinction for in-state tuition costs or scholarships or student aid. In good times or bad, we always seem to have money for illegal immigrants.
"Immigration is a federal responsibility," says Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, our City Council, our Board of Supervisors, our state Legislature and essentially every elected official at every level of government. When pressed on the issue the default position is, "We need to go after the employers who hire the undocumented!"
Yet these same "leaders" subvert even the most commonsense measures on the rare occasions when Washington actually does something.
Case in point: E-Verify.
E-Verify is a federal program that actually gives employers a tool to check if a job applicant has the right to work in America.
The cities of Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore had the audacity
to actually require business to use E-Verify.
So the state banned E-Verify in California.
The illegal immigrant lobby (which includes the California Chamber of Commerce) argued that E-Verify is not foolproof so it had to go from the Golden State.
Wrong names routinely appear on "Do Not Fly" lists, yet we still have the TSA. Every government program is riddled with blunders yet they continue ad infinitum.
What's E-Verify's failure rate? A miniscule 4 percent.
Since when is a 96 percent success rate unacceptable for a government program? If the LAUSD had a 96 percent graduation rate, Monica Garcia would do cartwheels down Beaudry Street. Caltrans can only dream of filling 96 percent of our potholes.
And that's the real issue with E-Verify, not the 4percent of failures. It works, so it had to go.
The unholy alliance of churches looking to fill pews, industries lusting for ever-cheaper labor, and politicians pandering for Hispanic votes trumps sovereignty and the quality of life of citizens and legal immigrants of every ethnicity.
It's obvious that any enforcement tool, any legislation, any actual effort to control illegal immigration is not welcome in California.

E-verify is not banned in California. Mandatory use of E-verify is banned in California, that's all.

They keep repeating this lie and somewhere an employer is not using it because they think that the new law prevents them from doing so. It does not. It merely prevents local governments from making it mandatory in their jurisdiction.