...The STRIVE Act would ensure that we have an immigration system in place that meets the security and economic needs of our nation by creating laws that are tough, enforceable and realistic. Unfortunately, it was blocked by Republicans in the Senate.

Read Speaker Pelosi's statement on blocked immigration reform>>

This bipartisan immigration reform would have:

  • Secure Our Borders
  • Strengthen Interior Enforcement
  • Bolster Employment Verification
  • Create a New Worker Program to Reflect the Realities of Our Workforce
  • Reform a Broken System In a Way That Protects Families
  • Allow Earned Legalization for Qualified, Hardworking Individuals
    Provide Strong Labor Protections

Speaker Nancy Pelosi | Issues
Nancy Pelosi said the above on her website about bolstering interior enforcement and employer verification.

H.R. 850

IRS Illegal Immigrant Information Act of 2007 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a procedure for determining whether individuals who are not authorized to be employed in the United States are so employed.

2/6/2007--Introduced.

IRS Illegal Immigrant Information Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require:

(1) the Secretary of Homeland Security to request from the Secretary of the Treasury information (including mailing address, amount of wages earned, and identity of employer) about alien workers who are no longer authorized to work in the United States;

(2) the Secretary of the Treasury to provide the requested information to the Department of Homeland Security; and

(3) the Secretary of Homeland Security to notify the alien worker and and the worker's employer that such employment is illegal and must be terminated within 30 days of such notice. Allows any worker who receives a notice to contest such notice and to provide documentation substantiating such worker's authorization to be employed in the United States.

OpenCongress - H.R.850 IRS Illegal Immigrant Information Act of 2007
Yet when a bill comes up doing just that, it dies a slow lingering death in her committees. She seems far more interested in granting amnesty than anything comprehensive like employer enforcement. Geez...you don't think he hires illegals for those two vineyards she and her husband own do ya? She definitely doesn't hire UFW workers to pick the crops.