Former INS official, Michael Cutler calls it in this op-ed piece:

Our government has mortgaged the future of our grandchildren with the "Economic Stimulus Package." They claimed that it was vital to dump billions of our dollars into the economy to prime the economic pump and get our nation's economy moving.

If, indeed, this is what they had in mind, why did they not make E-Verify a part of the program to make certain that reasonable steps were being taken to help prevent illegal aliens from getting jobs? Why are they not opposed to increasing the number of H1B visas as well?

If you wonder why I am linking the E-Verify program to the H1B Visas the answer is simple and straightforward. But in order to answer the question, I will pose a rhetorical question: "What do illegal aliens and aliens on "temporary" work visas such as the H1B visa have in common?" The answer is that they are all foreign workers and as such, their goal is to take the money they earn and send as much of it back to their families in their home countries. Each year between 100 billion and 200 billion dollars leaves our nation's economy for foreign countries.

This is money that is not earned by American citizens or resident aliens. This is money that is not spent in the United States of America. This is money that is not invested in the United States of America. This money that is utterly lost to the economy to the United States of America!

By not discouraging foreign workers from coming to the United States and working and then sending money back home, our politicians make as much sense as the person who turns on the faucets on his bathtub in preparation for taking a bath but fails to close the drain. He then comes back to the tub some time later and finds that all of the hot water he had planned to bathe in had disappeared down the drain! At the same time, those politicians are undercutting their fellow American citizens and resident aliens who should expect the government to look out for their best interests.

It's a no brainer that Americans should be first for jobs in their own country and economic theory backs it up. So do the statistics.