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06-20-2011, 12:40 PM #1
E-verify vs. amnesty - NYPostOpinion
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E-verify vs. amnesty
Last Updated: 2:48 AM, June 20, 2011
Posted: 11:10 PM, June 19, 2011
Kris Kobach compares the Legal Workforce Act, a bill to make sure US employers hire legal workers, to the 1986 amnesty legislation ("Another Amnesty?" PostOpinion, June 16).
This is false. A federal requirement making E-Verify mandatory for all US employers is essential to protecting jobs for American workers and reducing the jobs magnet that encourages illegal immigration.
Kobach agreed with this in a 2008 article. Although the Legal Workforce Act preempts state E-Verify laws, it supports states' rights because it retains the inherent ability of states and localities to issue or rescind business licenses based on the requirement that the employer use E-Verify as directed by federal law.
There are a number of reasons why we need the same E-Verify program for all US employers.
Only 17 out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia have an E-Verify mandate in place. States that have an E-Verify mandate only apply it in a limited way.
The only way for E-Verify to apply to all employers is to enact the Legal Workforce Act.
Rep. Lamar Smith
Chairman House Judiciary Committee
Washington, DC
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