Stimulus jobs to illegal immigrants?
Study: 300K illegals could be hired; but is study bunk, and does E-Verify work?
Joshua Wolpe, DDN Staff Writer
Wednesday, March 11, 2009





A recent study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) said that 300,000 nationwide construction jobs expected to be created by the economic stimulus bill could go to illegal immigrant workers because there is no provision in the bill that requires employers to certify legal immigration status.

But foes of the federal employee verification system, E-Verify, say the program is plagued with problems, and they say the CIS study is bunk. Last month, legislation in Colorado was killed that would have required employers to use E-Verify to see if their job applicants are illegal immigrants.

“This bill has been killed three years in a row,â€