Congress Refuses to Fight Illegal Aliens

Comrade Nancy Pelosi must be celebrating: The U.S. House today refused to expand a pilot project that lets employers check immigrants' identification numbers and ensure they are not in America illegally.

If taken nationwide, the pilot program being used in Texas, California, Florida, Illinois, Nebraska and New York would "create a single database with no privacy protections that would make it easy for the government to track its own citizens," claimed Rep. Ruben Hinojosa, D-Texas. "This bill actually comes dangerously close to threatening the privacy of the Americans and non-Americans alike."

House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said the only change in the pilot program would be that other states would be able to participate.

"If anybody is to be scared by this bill, it is the people who are trafficking in counterfeit documents," he said.

The 231-170 vote fell short of the two-thirds margin needed for approval. The Senate is working on its own version, the Associated Press reported.

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