Typical Republican pattern.
“It’s clear the government has given up defending an indefensible rule,” said Lucas Guttentag, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, another group bringing the lawsuit. “But now they’re hoping to rush through another half-baked rule without addressing the fundamental flaws. It’s like putting lipstick on Frankenstein.”
The Bush administration will suspend its legal defense of a new rule issued in August to punish employers who hire illegal immigrants, conceding a hard-fought opening round in a court battle over a central measure in its strategy to curb illegal immigration, according to government papers filed late Friday in federal court.
Bush obviously considers this to be really bad news because it was done close of business on Friday, when they release all bad news. And what's so bad about it?
Judge Breyer found that the government had failed to follow proper procedures in issuing the rule and that it should have completed a survey of its impact on small business.
It undercuts their claim to support small business.
He also found that the Social Security database the government would use to verify workers’ status was full of errors, so the rule could lead to the dismissal of many thousands of workers who were American citizens or legal immigrants.
...the labor unions cited a report from the inspector general of the Social Security Administration finding that 12.7 million of the records of United States citizens in the agency’s database contained errors that could lead to them being fired.
It would be as accurate as Florida's 2004 voter role purges. And might just get a bag of white folks fired (well, except for the fact that they aren't Mexican...call it the good side of racial profiling).
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