New federal push to fire illegal immigrants

You can be sure this will have the liberals spitting up burritos! The feds will be closing the loopholes on employers hiring illegal immigrants.

I am confused - they scream about our jobs going overseas, yet have no problem when illegal immigrants come here and take jobs from Americans.

What is the difference between jobs being outsourced in other countries and an illegal border jumper stealing a job from an American here? Can some please explain this nonsense?

From ALIPAC --

Chertoff announced the first version of the new rule in August to toughen a little-enforced provision of a 1986 immigration law prohibiting businesses from knowingly employing illegal immigrants.

In the past, employers have been able to comply with the law by obtaining identification documents from new workers. After that, the government notifies employers if the Social Security number on an employee’s W-2 tax form doesn’t match the number in the Social Security database. That worker may not have earnings credited for Social Security benefits, but no action is taken against the employer.

Under the new rule, employers who get no-match letters would have 90 days to resolve the discrepancy and an additional three days for an employee to submit a new, valid Social Security number. After that, an employer who failed to fire the worker would be subject to civil fines or criminal prosecution. More...