Wednesday, February 11, 2009
All Too Predictable [John Derbyshire]
A wee bit of Stimulus-related chicanery, from a well-placed reader:
John — The House version of the bill apparently had a requirement that business recipients of stimu-moolah use E-verify when they hired, to make sure that the jobs being created did not go to folks who are not here legitimately, job creation being, after all, the ostensible point of the undertaking. The Senate quietly snipped that bit out of its version.
Is anyone surprised by this? The notion that actual U.S. citizens have any special claim on the federal government's attention, is long gone. Ours is a government of the whole world. For it to privilege U.S. citizens in any way would be nativist. (Everybody jump up on nearest chair, clutch skirts, and shriek.)
02/11 02:53 PM
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