Human Events Daily podcast host Jack Posobiec recently laid out a few of the finer details of the Border Security and Enforcement Act of 2023 (H.R.2640) is one that populists should support. He specifically nailed down the part of the act that deals with E-Verify, a government-issued method that allows employers to document their employees.
Posobiec kicked off the segment by saying that he “love[s]” the recent act, calling it a “fantastic” push to hold businesses and corporations responsible for who they decide to hire. He continued by saying, “Congressman Andy Biggs was a big part of [the Act]. And it’s huge. I think it’s wonderful.”
Posobiec stated: “E-Verify is a system whereby the new Act would introduce penalties for employers who employ illegal aliens and also requires them to verify their citizenship, which is something, by the way, if you have a job in the United States, you already have to verify.”
The Human Events Daily host suggested that the Act reveals which side people are on. “Are you for the people, putting America First? Or do you care more about the interests of large corporations and the interests of foreign citizens?”
Posobiec said that there have been voices opposing the bill, who are asking where these illegal immigrants will go if they are not allowed to lawfully work in the US. Posobiec said: “You can go back to your home country, and you can work there. You’re perfectly allowed to.” He goes on to say that there is no such thing as an “undocumented citizen,” adding that “they are legal citizens of their home country. And if you are in our country illegally, that makes you a foreign national that has committed a crime.”
The Act reportedly comes with a $5,000 fine per illegal worker, and an employer who has committed this crime numerous times could be sentenced to 18 months in a federal prison. Posobiec goes on to suggest that there are several House GOP members who do not agree with this bill, and he said that these GOP members “care about corporations and corporate interests more than they do about the interests of American people.”
Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie is among those in the GOP who has voiced major concerns over the plan, tweeting on Tuesday, "I hear people say E-verify will be so effective at denying employment to illegals that millions of them will self deport.
"For E-verify to work that well would require biometric proof of identify for every American and a cashless society. Is this what you want for your children?"
Posobiec concluded the segment: “Bringing these low-wage workers across the border is theft from the American working class. You are stealing wages for them by artificially putting downward pressure on their wages, because you're constantly allowing these illegal low-wage workers to compete with them.”
“You're artificially inflating the pool of available labor resources, and obviously people who are willing to do the same job for far less money because it's all under the table. They're doing it illegally.”
According to the Migration Policy Institute, there are 11,047,000 unauthorized people currently living in the US, and it can be assumed that a great many of them are currently working jobs that American workers could be engaged in.
