E-Verify

Where’s E-Verify?

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Where’s E-Verify?
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Article author: 
Mark Krikorian
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National Review
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Tue, 07/24/2018
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Mon, 09/24/2018
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Illegal immigration isn’t just about criminals and the border — but that’s almost all we’ve been hearing about, whether at the national level or in the states, as has been the case leading up to today’s Georgia Republican-primary runoff.

Criminal deportations are essential, of course, and need to be increased. Sanctuary cities, shielding such criminals, have to be reined in. And the routine abuse of asylum, especially using children as a ticket into the U.S., has to be quashed.

But most illegal aliens are neither drunk-driving, dope-dealing rapists, nor bogus asylum seekers coached by immigration lawyers on how to game the system. They’re ordinary working stiffs, half of them arriving legally and then never leaving. They’re mainly coming to work, and that’s why weakening the magnet of jobs that attracts is essential both to the practice and the rhetoric of immigration control.

The president must have uttered/tweeted the words “E-Verify” at some point over the past three years, but no instance comes immediately to mind, certainly not a recent one. Even just a tweet or two would help keep the issue in the public discussion, providing for a more balanced immigration message and giving traction to ongoing efforts such as that of House Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte to get an E-Verify mandate passed.

The same holds true in today’s primary vote in Georgia. Both candidates — Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp — check a lot of the right boxes on immigration and don’t have any really obvious red flags. But, as Georgia’s steadfast immigration activist D.A. King has noted, the two candidates:

have mostly kept their immigration focus away from topics that may offend the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and narrowed to “sanctuary cities” and on illegal aliens who have already committed additional crimes in the United States — or “criminal illegal aliens.”

 
The main driver of illegal immigration is illegal employment, which was not mentioned in either campaign.

Ag groups split over latest House labor bill

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Ag groups split over latest House labor bill
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Western Growers says it has stopped a vote on an agricultural labor bill because of E-verify. U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., says there will still be a vote.
Article author: 
Dan Wheat
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Capital Press
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Tue, 07/17/2018
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Sat, 09/01/2018
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While some members of Congress and agricultural groups have been working hard to pass an agricultural labor bill before the August recess, one agricultural group is thanking its members for killing it.

Tom Nassif, president and CEO of Western Growers, an association representing growers of more than half the produce in the U.S., sent an email to hundreds of his members July 13 thanking them for lobbying against the revised Ag and Legal Workforce Act of House Judiciary Chairman Robert Goodlatte, R-Va.

“We have been informed that the U.S. House of Representatives will NOT vote on legislation next week that would impose mandatory E-Verify (electronic verification of employment eligibility) with no fix for our existing workers,” Nassif wrote.

Congress Has the Tool to Stop Illegal Immigration

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Congress Has the Tool to Stop Illegal Immigration
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Making the E-Verify system mandatory would protect American workers and deter document fraud.
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Chuck Grassley and Lamar Smith
Article publisher: 
Bloomberg
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Wed, 06/27/2018
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High
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When Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, it was hailed as a victory for border security in exchange for an amnesty that addressed illegal immigration. For the first time in our nation’s history, Congress made it a federal crime to employ undocumented workers. At that time, everyone — Democrats and Republicans — believed that Congress had finally solved the problem of illegal immigration by cutting off the “jobs” magnet.

But much of the bill was never enforced, and 32 years later, it is clear that Congress must do more to protect American workers and to combat illegal immigration.

Instead of shutting off the jobs magnet, the 1986 amnesty encouraged more illegal immigration by incentivizing employment-document fraud and identity theft. To make matters worse, employers have very little ability to determine the validity of employment documents. If an employer suspects that a document is stolen or spoofed and refuses to hire someone, they face the prospect of lengthy and expensive discrimination lawsuits. Because of this combination of factors, the demand for unlawful employment remains. Today, the U.S. faces a crisis of epic proportions, with an estimated population of 11 million to 15 million undocumented immigrants.
 
There is a proven, cost-effective tool to help reduce unlawful employment and to remove future incentives for illegal immigration. That tool is E-Verify. E-Verify is a voluntary, quick and free workforce verification system provided by the federal government that instantly checks an individual’s employment eligibility. E-Verify is the most effective tool available to fight illegal immigration because it drastically reduces or eliminates the illegal jobs magnet.
 
 

 

Pat Nash: A columnist who remains clueless about immigration

Republicans alone are responsible for our continuing illegal immigration crisis, just ask Wisconsinite Pat Nash.

In her Dec. 8 column, Nash writes: Read more about Pat Nash: A columnist who remains clueless about immigration

NumbersUSA shines bright light on GOP enemies of E-Verify: Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy

President Obama, who for months has been telling us that jobs for Americans are a "top priority," doesn't need members of his own "immigrant-friendly" party to keep your unemployed friends and neighbors out of work.   Read more about NumbersUSA shines bright light on GOP enemies of E-Verify: Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy

What was (and wasn't) in the GAO report on E-Verify

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What was (and wasn't) in the GAO report on E-Verify
Article author: 
Jeremy Beck
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NumbersUSA
Article date: 
Fri, 01/21/2011
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The Government Accountability Office's (GAO) report on E-Verify included some happy news (E-Verify is more accurate than ever) and some disappointing news (ICE's misplaced priorities). I was also disappointed in some of the things the report did not include. Below are some highlights from the report and my response. E-Verify Is Accurate The GAO reports that E-Verify has earned some impressive marks in accuracy, and USCIS has proudly displayed the findings in a pie chart. Here are the key statistics:
  • 97.4 percent of employees are automatically confirmed as authorized to work ("work authorized") either instantly or within 24 hours, requiring no employee or employer action.
  • 2.6 percent of employees receive initial system mismatches ("tentative non-confirmations")
    • 0.3 percent are later confirmed as work authorized after contesting and resolving the mismatch;
    • 2.3 percent are not found work authorized.
   
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