The President has been distracted with the recession in the economy and his year long futile attempt at passing health care legislation.

As a result, there has been very little attention paid to other domestic problem areas like immigration reform. 

So, many Latinos are furious at President Obama for failing to deliver on his campaign promises to push immigration reform legislation. 

Latino's voted 2-1 in the last election for the President, and if they decide to sit out the mid-term elections in November, it would be a disaster for the Democrats. To avoid a Republican controlled Congress in November, look for a push for immigration reform by the Obama Administration in the months ahead. 

However, a path for citizenship for existing illegal immigrants, depends on controlling the border and the workplace from illegal aliens. Problems that led to the current sad state of illegal immigration in the United States. 

After immigration reform was defeated in Congress several years ago, a virtual border fence and a workplace security program called E-Verify were developed. These initiatives were suppose to give the American public assurance that the problem of illegal immigration was under government control.

Recent reports indicate that both programs are in big trouble. Tens of thousands of U.S. employers use the free online program known as E-Verify to screen undocumented workers and the Obama Administration is pushing more companies to use it as a tool to help curb illegal immigration.

It turns out that the E- Verify system is seriously flawed and fails to detect more than 54% of the unauthorized workers it checks, according to a new report from a Maryland company under contract with the Department of Homeland Security. 

In fact, the program regularly clears unauthorized workers and misses most illegal aliens because it can’t detect identity fraud. The problems with the workplace immigration security system are probably why only about 184,000 of the nation's 7 million to 8 million employers are currently using E-Verify.

The program allows companies to run employees’ information against Homeland Security and Social Security databases to assure the person is allowed to work in the U.S. However, the report found that a only 9% of the Social Security numbers used multiple times by illegal immigrants were identified by the system as undocumented aliens. 

Unfortunately, the news is not any better for security along the southwestern border. The multi billion-dollar "virtual fence" designed to protect the U.S. from terrorists, violent drug smugglers and a flood of illegal immigrants was suppose to be completed last year. It is still a long way from becoming a reality, with government officials unable to say when, how or whether it will ever be completed.

Since February 2007, the  General Accounting Office (GAO) has been telling Congress and Homeland Security that its high-tech border protection system needed better oversight and accountability, and that it lacked realistic measures of cost, timing and benefits.

There are currently no workplace raids by Homeland Security to arrest illegal aliens. In addition, the virtual border fence is on a road to nowhere and the E-Verify system to track illegal immigration in the workplace does not work.

Still, the Obama Administration will soon highlight the need for immigration reform in a cynical attempt to get Latino voters to the polls for Democrats in the mid term elections. Politics will hide the fact is that the immigration system is still broken and needs to be fixed. The truth is that security is still an obstacle for real immigration reform.

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