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    Tancredo: Mandatory E-Verify for Employment Should be Donald Trump’s Top Immigration

    Tancredo: Mandatory E-Verify for Employment Should be Donald Trump’s Top Immigration Priority

    by TOM TANCREDO
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    Yes, the wall on our southwest border can and should be built. But it is less important than enacting the mandatory E-Verify system for employment.

    Let’s face it. We all know it is the prospect of a better life through employment that attracts the vast majority of border jumpers. Our system for blocking unlawful employment of foreign-born workers who lack a lawful work permit has always been a joke, and under Obama, enforcement has been an even lower priority than it was under Bush.

    Congress can turn off the jobs magnet by enacting the mandatory E-Verify program, an internet-based system allowing instant verification of the legal status of job applicants. It has an error rate of less than 1 percent and costs employers next to nothing.

    Foreign born workers have no constitutional right to employment. Like every European country, Mexico and all of the advanced nations of the world, the United States has a system of “work authorization permits” for legal employment by immigrants and all foreign nationals. The problem is, our laws against unlawful employment are not enforced– in fact, they are unenforceable without major changes and improvements.

    The easy availability of unlawful employment is the giant magnet motivating millions of illegal aliens to cross our borders unlawfully. We also have a mushrooming problem of millions of “visa overstays,” people who arrive on a legal tourist or other temporary visa but do not leave on the expiration date. They, too, are most often seeking employment.

    If we turn off the jobs magnet, illegal entry across our borders can change from a flood to a trickle. Then the Border Patrol could concentrate on stopping terrorists and drug traffickers, and job seekers would have to get in line for one of the many LEGAL guest worker programs already on the books.

    The United States already has several guest worker programs that allow employers to hire foreign workers for seasonal labor– in agriculture, in seasonal ski resorts, in landscaping, and other fields. Foreign workers are brought in for seasonal jobs where it has been demonstrated that American workers are not available — and then they go home. We even allow the hiring of year-round foreign sheep herders from Peru, Portugal and Afghanistan because, evidently, Americans will not do those jobs.

    There is an important principle involved in legal guest worker programs. They are authorized only when it has been demonstrated that American workers are not available at market-based wages. Foreign workers should be SUPPLEMENTING American workers, not REPLACING them.

    As a member of Congress, I sponsored a bill to allow any employer to hire a foreign worker for any job after the US Labor Department had verified that wages had been rising in that occupation for at least three successive quarters, which would be a free market demonstration of a labor shortage. If wages are flat or declining, there is no documented labor shortage.

    If there are genuine labor shortages in some occupations, then by all means, let’s have a viable, LEGAL guest worker program available to employers in those fields. But that is not the case with 98 percent of the jobs now going to illegal workers. The ready availability of cheap illegal labor has been a major factor in wage stagnation over the past 20 years.

    That illegal spigot must be turned off, and making the E-Verify system mandatory for all employers is the way to do it.

    The E-Verify system already exists as a voluntary program administered by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) bureau within the Department of Homeland Security. A 2014 statement by Lori Scialabba, Obama’s Acting Director of USCIS, endorsed the program as an immense success, with over a half-million employers participating nationwide: “Since it was established, E-Verify has experienced exponential growth, increased accuracy and high customer-satisfaction ratings.”

    So, why hasn’t mandatory E-Verify program been adopted by Congress already? It has been included as part of some of the amnesty bills proposed over the past decade, but only as a sop to immigration enforcement, never as stand-alone legislation to fix a concrete problem.

    Why not? The answer is that the E-Verify program has been opposed because the open borders lobby knows it will work. It is opposed by the US Chamber of Commerce and every other member of the coalition that supported the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty bill.

    Rep. Lamar Smith’s mandatory E-Verify bill, HR 1147, was approved by bipartisan committee vote in the House in 2015, but never allowed to reach the floor for an up or down vote. Sen. Grassley’s bill was considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee but similarly never allowed to get to the floor.

    With Republican majorities now controlling both the House and Senate calendars, there is no valid reason not to bring these bills to a vote. Differences can be ironed out in a conference committee and a bill sent to President Trump in the first 100 days of the session.

    Sadly, despite lip service paid to mandatory E-Verify by scores of Republican bill sponsors, only strong push by President Trump and his executive branch appointees can move E-Verify program to a vote in Congress. If Trump is really serious about immigration enforcement, he will make this his top priority.

    The E-Verify bill will be a good test case for his White House team. Will Trump’s White House policy team prevail over the “pragmatists” who will want to wait for “congressional consensus”?

    Does Trump want to fix the problem, or merely continue blaming Democrats for obstruction? In truth, on many important immigration enforcement issues, the obstruction is coming from within his own party.

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    I think the best use of E-verify is to verify status of illegal aliens in deportation hearings so they can be expedited to a 24 to 48 hour magistrate level rubber-stamped hearing, no papers, no birth record, no E-verify, out you go on the first bus deal.
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    E-verify is a must. The job magnet must be addressed before illegal immigration can ever be stopped.
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    And the illegal alien population must be deported because the base and network this population provides to new arrivals keep it all flowing in. The weakness of E-Verify is that it assumes employers are hiring illegal aliens unknowingly and E-Verify protects them from unwitting illegal hires. But I don't think most employers are unknowingly or unwittingly hiring illegal aliens, I think they'e doing it deliberately so for those E-Verify won't matter because they're cheating willfully, so they'll continue to cheat and bypass E-Verify even when it's mandated.
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    E-Verify can be made a law and tracked through the IRS which Trump has to seriously clean up. No citizen no job, and any that are now employed will be fired immediately. This will be a multi-pronged effort to rid our country of illegal aliens.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lsmith1338 View Post
    E-Verify can be made a law and tracked through the IRS which Trump has to seriously clean up. No citizen no job, and any that are now employed will be fired immediately. This will be a multi-pronged effort to rid our country of illegal aliens.
    You're are absolutely right! If E-Verify was mandated nationally, it could, with the proper oversight, be made into a very effective tool to combat the hiring of illegal immigrants.

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    We have received reports at ALIPAC of E-verify clearing illegals to work in US. The powers that want to create a North American Union want E-verify too, but they have no intention of allowing their governing system to be used to exclude illegal aliens they have brought here.

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    The employment of illegal immigrants is not the basic problem of illegal immigration. The basic problem of illegal immigration is enforcing the law against the simple presence of illegal immigrants in our country.

    If we can make E-Verify a basic tool of law enforcement against the simple presence of illegal immigrants, then I agree it should be a first priority. Absolutely everyone who falls under the scrutiny of law enforcement should be easily identified as a US citizen. Your citizenship status should be a simple part of any identification accepted by law enforcement.

    The real problem of employing illegal immigrants it when they are hired by legal immigrants, especially non-citizens. Most illegal immigrants do not speak English and so must be hired by legal immigrants and citizens who speak their language. If we are to police the hiring of illegal immigrants, then this should include special punishments against legal immigrants and immigrants who have gained citizenship.

    If you are a recently naturalized citizen and hire illegal immigrants, then you should be stripped of your citizenship and deported. And the same penalties should be weighed against any recently naturalized citizen who in any way enables the presence of illegal immigrants.
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    Debunking the “E-Verify Error Rate”


    Everyone agrees that illegal immigrants cross our borders because they want to work here. If we can reduce the lure of illegal employment, we can reduce the pressure on our borders.

    That’s exactly what E-Verify does. When an E-Verify employer hires a new worker, the employer gets on line and fills out a short electronic form. As soon as the employer hits “send,” the system checks to make sure that the worker’s name matches his Social Security Number. If the worker is not a U.S. citizen, the system also checks to make sure his work authorization is still valid and shows the employer the picture that should be on the DHS-issued identity card. For most workers, verification is instantaneous.

    E-Verify is simple, free, and highly effective in preventing illegal work. It works, and maybe that’s what the interests arrayed against E-Verify don’t like. Whatever the reason, opponents of E-Verify have resorted to charges that just don’t hold up. In this series, I debunk the myths.


    The opposition to E-Verify often claims that the program has a high error rate. Some critics claim that the error rate is as high as 4% and will lead to millions of Americans losing their jobs by mistake.

    To see how wrong this claim is, we need to look more closely at how E-Verify works. We can draw a precise picture of what happens to a thousand applicants who use E-Verify by using data gathered from October 2006 to March 2007 by Westat, an independent reviewer.


    Of the thousand, 942 are instantly verified. Instant verification of legal workers surely can’t be an error.

    Fifty-eight are told that they have to do something more to establish that they are lawfully authorized to work. Usually this means they have to go to Social Security to correct the mismatch in name and number. (Typos and similar problems are cured on line, so legal workers usually have a problem only if they changed their names or citizenship status but failed to tell Social Security of the change.)

    So five of the thousand must go to Social Security and straighten out their records. For 90% of them, the process takes less than 2 days. Is that an error rate? If so, it’s ten times lower than our critics claim. And, is it really an error to tell workers that their social security credits aren’t being properly recorded? Sooner or later, the worker will want to collect benefits, and they won’t want to face doubts about who earned the credits. (Of course, straightening out Social Security records isn’t fun, but we’re working to reduce the hassle. Just a few weeks ago, we introduced software changes that will automate some of the correction process, reducing the number of legitimate workers who have to go to Social Security offices from five to two or three per thousand.)

    That leaves the 53 who walk away. Is that an error rate? There are certainly people who believe it’s an error to keep illegal workers out of the U.S. workforce. But we don’t. It’s our job to enforce the immigration laws.

    And common sense suggests that the walkaways are overwhelmingly likely to be illegal workers. It’s just common sense that a legal worker wouldn’t want to walk away from a job he applied for--and has been offered if he straightens out his records. It’s just common sense that a legal worker wouldn’t walk away from the opportunity to correct Social Security records he now knows are wrong – records that will have to be corrected for him to get benefits. And it’s just common sense that about five percent of E-Verify workers would walk away, since a Pew Foundation expert recently estimated that 4.9% of U.S. jobs are held by illegal workers. It’s hard to see the walkaway rate as an error; in fact, that’s the program working as it should.

    Stewart Baker
    Assistant Secretary for Policy
    Labels: E-Verify, immigration enforcement


    posted by DHS at 12:05 PM


    https://www.dhs.gov/journal/leadersh...rror-rate.html




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    Quote Originally Posted by pkskyali View Post
    The employment of illegal immigrants is not the basic problem of illegal immigration. The basic problem of illegal immigration is enforcing the law against the simple presence of illegal immigrants in our country.

    If we can make E-Verify a basic tool of law enforcement against the simple presence of illegal immigrants, then I agree it should be a first priority. Absolutely everyone who falls under the scrutiny of law enforcement should be easily identified as a US citizen. Your citizenship status should be a simple part of any identification accepted by law enforcement.

    The real problem of employing illegal immigrants it when they are hired by legal immigrants, especially non-citizens. Most illegal immigrants do not speak English and so must be hired by legal immigrants and citizens who speak their language. If we are to police the hiring of illegal immigrants, then this should include special punishments against legal immigrants and immigrants who have gained citizenship.

    If you are a recently naturalized citizen and hire illegal immigrants, then you should be stripped of your citizenship and deported. And the same penalties should be weighed against any recently naturalized citizen who in any way enables the presence of illegal immigrants.
    Totally 100% agree. E-Verify is okay, but it's a white collar office type solution to a physical problem that requires boots on the ground for physical removal of this population. While all tools and ideas should be considered and used, physical deportation is the only sure means to end illegal immigration by removing the problem. The wall and if we legalize the illegal drug trade, make it a domestic only enterprise run solely by licensed US citizens, and immediately chase down and remove visa overstays, then we can stop it from resurfacing.

    DHS is selling the myth that every illegal alien wants to work here and that's why they come here. No they come here to run drugs, gangs and other criminal enterprises and yes steal jobs, businesses, educations and benefits from the American People. It's time people wake up to the fact that illegal immigration across the board is a criminal enterprise and not "work".
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