{"id":8410,"date":"2015-01-28T17:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T22:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:30:03","slug":"attorney-general-nominee-asserts-that-illegal-aliens-have-the-right-to-work-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/01\/28\/attorney-general-nominee-asserts-that-illegal-aliens-have-the-right-to-work-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Nominee Asserts that Illegal Aliens Have the \u201cRight to Work\u201d in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Loretta_Lynch\"<\/a>At her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Loretta Lynch, President Obama\u2019s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, asserted that everyone has a right to a job<\/a> in the United States, regardless of immigration status.<\/p>\n

In response to a question by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), \u201cWho has more right to a job in this country? A lawful immigrant who\u2019s here, or citizen\u2014or a person who entered the country unlawfully?\u201d Lynch provided an astounding reply that demonstrates that she is either appallingly ignorant of the law or, like her predecessor Eric Holder<\/a> and her prospective boss President Obama, has absolutely no regard for the law.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the right and the obligation to work is one that\u2019s shared by everyone in this country regardless of how they came here. And certainly, if someone is here, regardless of status, I would prefer that they would be participating in the workplace than not participating in the workplace,\u201d Lynch answered.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what Lynch believes, the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act<\/a> (IRCA), explicitly prohibits illegal aliens from being employed in the United States. The absolutely undeniable intent of IRCA was to protect American workers from competition<\/a> from illegal aliens and to end the incentive for illegal immigration by preventing them from \u201cparticipating in the workplace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynch\u2019s words, and the policies of the administration she hopes to serve, should be chilling to anyone who believes in the rule of law and limits to executive power. If presidents and their political appointees can brazenly assert the right to carry out policies based on what they believe, rather than on what is explicitly stated in the law, then we are no longer a constitutional republic.