Rubén Hinojosa: “I want to summarize my comments and say that this bill provides for the extension and expansion of a program to verify…”

“I want to summarize my comments and say that this bill provides for the extension and expansion of a program to verify if employees are legally authorized to work in the U.S. But we have Representatives on both sides of the aisle who oppose this bill because it expands this current pilot program to all 50 States, when today the pilot program is currently covering only six States. That includes California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, and Nebraska. They are the ones who have these pilot programs. This legislation would allow all the States then to have access to what is existent right now in the database. Again, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on H.R. 2359.”