Posted on 06/18/2011 3:02:18 PM PDT by OddLane
One of the central points of focus for the illegal immigration debate recently has been the use by employers of the federal government’s E-Verify system for checking the immigration status of potential or existing employees. Now Lamar Smith, the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has introduced a bill, H.R. 2164, which purports to mandate E-Verify use for all American employers.
The merits of this legislation are pretty obvious, and have been cited by immigration enforcement and reform groups like FAIR in support of Smith’s bill. Getting corporations and businesses that have resisted the implementation of E-Verify for years to embrace a bill that compels employers to adopt it is an historic accomplishment. Forcing businesses to verify the eligibility of potential employees in the future is the precondition for stopping the influx of people coming here illegally in order to work in the United States.
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The CoC wants this bill because they know the federal government will never enforce the law AND it preempts the states. It’s a win-win for them. That’s why I hope it fails, the states should be allowed to continue punishing businesses when the feds go to sleep again, as we all know they will.
Ping!
I’m all for E-Verify. The data base has been shown to be accurate and the percentage of error very small. Fake documents can be smoked out and illegals are not hired at the get go. It also helps with audits of employers as a lot of rejected queries show who is recruiting illegals.
We need to combat illegel immigration on many fronts, employer hires, borders, catch and DEPORT, Etc.
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