[Joe Brower]

This is agitprop, plain and simple.

We finally get someone in charge who vows to use the facilities created by the FedGov to stop illegal immigration, and the leftmedia quickly spews out a hit piece on that selfsame facility. Funny how they never mentioned any of this until now. Golly, something isn't 100% perfect, so it's just no good at all. Unless it serves their anti-American agenda, that is. Which rooting out and deport illegals apparently does not.

And gee, isn't E-Verify something created by that godlike entity that all good collectivists worship -- the Great God Government, maker of ObamaCare and all else that is good? These creatures are obviously oblivious to their own double-standards and relative morals. That, or they're just dyed-in-the-wool liars. I vote for answer #2.

Florida Freeper

[seekthetruth]

So OK. We start out catching 50% of the illegals, and that is better than doing nothing! I am sure Governor Scott will make sure the problems with E-verify are corrected in due time.

[Goldwater Girl]

There are terrible problems with E-verify, especially for naturalized citizens. The reason, of course, is because the idiots in DC don't share data bases, or keep the ones they have updated. Why the Social Security Administration can't figure out the same SS number is being used in several places and jobs simultaneously is beyond my comprehension. They claim privacy laws prevent it- which is nonsense.
That said, while better than nothing, E-verify will do some good. Not for the actual state employees, but for the contractors who build roads, buildings, bridges, etc for the state.

And we need to contact our Congresscritters to FIX it! If the dumb bureaucrats can't figure it out- privatize the system to work seamlessly. Update the SS database with births and deaths, new citizens and legal workers, to make identity theft harder. Share that database with INS, Homeland Security and E-Verify, so they are all working with the same data set. And dedicate the bandwidth to allow HR people to check ALL applicants. As it is now, the employer isn't notified his new hire is illegal until weeks AFTER they are hired, because the system can't handle the volume to check all the names. No wonder businesses think its a giant waste of time, and illegals slip through all the time. Another benefit might be to let us all know if our SS# is being used fraudulently before the criminal starts opening charge accounts in our name, too!
Kudos to the new Governor for making a start on fixing this mess. GG