Arizona Wins in Court
Greedy Businesses Fight Back With Prop. 202

Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- September 19   State Rep. Russell Pearce calls for defeat of Proposition 202.     Sylvester: What was this going to mean for the folks in Arizona.      Pearce: Well, clearly it will. This is a national issue. I mean, they've attacked Hazleton, Pennsylvania, they've attacked, you know, Valley Park, Missouri, they've attacked Oklahoma, who have all tried to implement rules and laws to go after the illegal alien problem, the crisis in this country. The employers are the No. 1 lure, this is clear, they made it very clear that we're not preempting federal law.     States have the inherent authority to enforce these laws. They made it clear that we can go after, first of all the best program ever devised to help employers know who they're hiring, called E-Verify, a Web-based system that verifies the identity of your employer that they're either a citizen or they have a visa and they have a right to work here, it's 99.7 percent accurate. That's what (INAUDIBLE).     But, they don't want to know who they're hiring, they want to continue use the I9 process that's full of fraud. In fact these same folks are the ones that are now doing Proposition 202 here in Arizona because they knew they would lose in court and they've gone after us at the ballot...    Watch   Transcript