“E-Verify should be required for employment AND public assistance.”
Every attempt to trim the welfare roles down to just the people that welfare was designed to help have been reversed by the courts. There are wanted felons living off welfare. Various police agencies have sued to get the addresses so they could make arrests. The courts have constantly ruled against this as a violation of (fill-in-the-blank) rights.
You have described the very successful, well played execution of the Cloward-Piven strategy.