Who cares!
Would E-Verify help solve this problem?
I am not a fan of E-Verify because it is an administrative burden on business. It is only necessary because the FedGov refuses to enforce immigration laws. But it may be the only arrow in the quiver.
What would happen if people would only do business with companies that E-Verify? It may take awhile to have an effect because E-Verify is only used by 1-2% of businesses.
It is virtually non-existent in the landscape business, for example. Check for yourself. Go to NumbersUSA and see if you can find a landscape business that uses it. I can’t. But if enough people ask before they hire maybe a landscape will figure out using E-Verify is good for getting new business.
No surprise. For years, since there has been practically no enforcement of immigration law, and legal immigration has been at 1,000,000+ per year. Employers in more and more industries have made a habit of hiring illegal aliens in lower skilled jobs, and H1B’s in many higher skill jobs: construction, agriculture, manufacturing, fast food, all computer fields and many others.
This is nothing more or less than an effort by major employers to flood the labor market to hold down and even reduce compensation for employees, and they’ve had complete cooperation from our executive and most of our legislative branch of the federal government for years.
E-verify is an important subject. With every day, every hour, we have more foreigners crossing our border and taking jobs away from the people who are citizens. It will only get harder and harder for a Republican president to reverse the job market.
Americans should insist that the firms they deal with have conformed to the rules of E-verify. Keep pushing it, blam.
Ask your contractor if he employs people who do not speak English. Ask your landscaping company the same question. The consumer is the one paying the illegal workers in this country by not insisting on legal labor.
It sounds like its’ time not only stop illegal immigration but scale back legal immigraiton too until native Americans can catch up and getting newly created jobs. It is insane and a policy of self-suicide to harm Americans at the expense of immigrants. With the left, life is always a zero sum game and our leftist immigration policy illustrates that in spades.