The House subcommittee on immigration just this morning passed H.R. 5882 to immediately add the 550,000 permanent foreign workers sought by Sen. Menendez—and to increase permanent foreign workers for the future.

Senator Menendez has been holding E-verify as ransom in order to get the foreign worker visas he needs to give American jobs away permanently to foreign workers. He is obviously working for foreign interests. Since December, 463,000 American jobs have been lost, the government announced today

The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that non-farm payrolls fell for the 7th straight month. How could the Senate possibly consider bringing one additional foreign worker into the country under these conditions.

The Labor Department reported today that unemployment now stands at a four-year high. How can the Senate allow Sen. Menendez to continue to insist on importing hundreds of thousands more foreign workers?

With the average work week for Americans now down to 33.6 hours—an all-time low—what insanity could cause the Senate to allow Sen. Menendez to hold up E-Verify authorization because he wants to bring in 550,000 more permanent foreign workers?

Menendez has obviously been planning this. Senate Majority Leader Reid knows he needs to re-authorize E-Verify before he gavels things down this weekend. He will do whatever he can to provide extra foreign workers to Sen. Menendez in order to get him to take his “hold” off E-Verify—unless the switchboards light up today in protest.