Social Security stopped sending out no-match letters some years ago
under the Obama administration. We put that all back together, and we
require the IRS communicate with and trade information with the Social
Security Administration to target and flag those false Social Security
numbers. And then also bring the Department of Homeland Security to the
table so that the IRS, Social Security Administration, and the
Department of Homeland Security are all working together to cooperate
to enforce immigration law and denying, then, the deductibility of the
employer. The employer will have all kinds of incentives to clean up his
workforce. In fact, we have a 6-year statute of limitations that
compiles or accrues over the years. And so if you are sitting there
with a 6-year potential liability, you are going to want to be with a
clean workforce. That is another piece that is a policy that the President has been
for, at least in the past. Now, things move on, but we are--we have an
immigration policy that became part of the platform for the President
of the United States, and in that policy and throughout, there are
multiple times in speeches he announced that he is going to end DACA. He is going to end DACA, and we all expected that that would happen at
noon January 20 of this year when the President was inaugurated out
here on the west portico of the Capitol not very far from where I stand
right now. That would have been consistent with his campaign promise:
build the wall, and the unconstitutional DACA. And so while he was signing executive orders--and I give him credit. He went to the Oval Office, and at least he had a formal signing of
multiple executive orders that day, launched his Presidency with work
right on the spot instead of--he shortened up the parade for himself
and went to work for America. Hats off to President Trump for that, and
I support his entire agenda, and I am going to do my best to help him
keep his word on that entire agenda. But we found out weeks later that DACA permits were still being
issued, and they were still being extended, and those permits also
included work permits. So President Obama's unconstitutional DACA--deferred action for
children of aliens--program was continued, and it continues actually to
this day under the Trump administration, completely in contradiction
with the campaign promises he made. I would say many more times than
Barack Obama made the statement that he didn't have the constitutional
authority. Barack Obama violated the Constitution. President Trump has continued
that violation. And I am calling upon him to keep his campaign promise,
restore the respect for the rule of law; and DACA, by the executive
action, just sign it off and end it. If we fail to do that--and I have worked for 31 years to restore the
respect for the rule of law with regard to immigration. In 1986, Ronald
Reagan signed the Amnesty Act. At least he was honest about it.
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