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I.c.e. did i-9 audits of more than 2,000 businesses last year, uncovering more than 25,000 suspect documents. employers were fined almost $7 million. the agency hopes this will deter other employers from hiring illegal workers, but the numbers are daunting. >> overall, right now, we estimate that are about 5.1% of all u.s. workers are unauthorized and in restaurant and food service its about 12.5% so its an industry that depends a lot on unauthorized workers. >> reporter: i.c.e. says its not tar...

Now look to expand its use of e-verify. wolf? >> also, thanks very much, jeanne, for that. lets get back to whats happening in egypt right now. as you know, it receives a lot of u.s. assistance, financial assistance and heres the question that a lot of people are asking. how is that $1.6 billion being used. thats the annual military aid and economic aid, plus, on cairos largest day of protests yet. >> its over. theres no america. theres no hezbollah. its his fault. what we are in is his fault....

Stuff. but that combination, especially now when were dying for money to be able to stimulate the economy and here we have a trillion dollars of american money overseas, we just got to say, hey, look. you bring it back for r&d. you bring it back to create jobs. well let you bring it back into our country without hitting it with a huge tax increase as long as you put it into those items that we know meet the healthy economy and help research. >> i know youre down in san diego. youve worked hard o...

Immigrants or citizens. so to say americans wont do those jobs is a little bit of an insult to americans who do work those jobs. any honest job is a good job. and legal workers, american citizens want every job there is. whether its restaurant worker or out in the fields. bill: if you are unemployed for a couple years you will do just about anything to make sure you have food on the table. construction, sanitation, cleaning, those are the jobs we find. employers dont pay health benefits and payr...

Unique perspective to this argument because you grew up two blocks from the mexican border in southern california. should we amend the 14th amendment? >> no, we dont need to amend the 14th amendment. first of all lets remember that if we eliminate the cause for people to be legally here and thats employment, if we require all employers to make sure they check the social security numbers and names match on the e-verify, 90 percent of this problem will be eliminated. when were talking about birthr...

Very -- thinks it is a very important provision. that and the enhanced penalties are different from arizonas law because weve added this in we think it is important. we have other things from arizonas law like e-verify we that i is good for employers to check. weve given safe harbor to check with the government to see if his new employee is an illegal person and has a right to be hired and they get an answer back yes and determine this person is an illegal the employer is protected because they ...

Very -- thinks it is a very important provision. that and the enhanced penalties are different from arizonas law because weve added this in we think it is important. we have other things from arizonas law like e-verify we that i is good for employers to check. weve given safe harbor to check with the government to see if his new employee is an illegal person and has a right to be hired and they get an answer back yes and determine this person is an illegal the employer is protected because they ...

Like in a consensual encounter. >> and given the past history in the 60s, in the commonwealth of virginia, which youve talked about very openly, how concerned are you, though, about racial profiling, about leaving this kind of casual conversation to -- leaving it up to abuse? >> look, virginia, given our history, is extremely sensitive to racial profiling. we havent had any problems with profiling, none. zero complaints that im aware of, legitimate ones. >> given that your statement basically ta...

Well, i would like to see us investigating whether e-verify is effective and operates without many errors. i would like to see more of our localities voluntarily using 287-g authority, which is a memorandum of understanding with i.c.e., so that their local folks are trained like prince william countys, so that we can start deportation processes locally rather than waiting for the feds to do that. >> why havent more municipalities taken the feds up on that? is it concern over limited resources, c...

Profiling, about leaving this kind of casual conversation to -- leaving it up to abuse? >> look, virginia, given our history, is extremely sensitive to racial profiling. we havent had any problems with profiling, none. zero complaints that im aware of, legitimate ones. >> given that your statement basically talked about what already exists, are you -- is that -- youre not really adding anything new to the debate, are you then satisfied with the level of effort against illegal immigrants in the c...