As chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, Elton Gallegly has made passage of the Legal Workforce Act a major priority.
More than 7 million people take American jobs by working illegally in the United States. Under the act, many of those 7 million jobs will be available to American workers when E-Verify is fully implemented in two years.
What other jobs program can guarantee millions of jobs for American workers in two years?
Following is a sampling of recent media coverage on E-Verify and the Legal Workforce Act.
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Columns
• Secure Hispanic vote by preserving jobs
• Fraud by illegal immigrants destroying children’s lives
• E-Verify ready to put Americans to work
• U.S. magnet: Illegal immigrants paid $4.2 billion
• Act ensures jobs are filled by legal workers
• Create Jobs by Making E-Verify Mandatory
• Mandate E-Verify to block jobs for illegal immigrants
• E-Verify works; let’s use it
• Illegal immigration’s toll on state’s deficit
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Press Releases
• Gallegly praises passage of bill that protects jobs for Americans
• Smith and Gallegly: California Bill Shows Federal E-Verify Law Needed
• Gallegly praises Supreme Court ruling upholding E-Verify
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Statements
• Statement of Chairman Elton Gallegly, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, Hearing on Document Fraud in Employment Authorization: How an E-Verify Requirement Can Help, Wednesday, April 18, 2012
• Opening Statement of Rep. Elton Gallegly, House Judiciary Committee, Markup of H.R. 2885, The “Legal Workforce Act”, Thursday, September 15, 2011
• Statement of Chairman Elton Gallegly, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, Hearing on H.R. 2164, the Legal Workforce Act, Wednesday, June 15, 2011
• Statement of Chairman Elton Gallegly, Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, Hearing on E-Verify – Preserving Jobs for American Workers, Thursday, February 10, 2011
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