Thread: Rep. Dave Brat: Democrats Must Support E-Verify If Serious About Immigration Reform

by DAN RIEHL
7 Sep 2017
Washington, DC

Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday regarding reactions to the Trump administration’s DACA decision, Hurricane Harvey relief being tied to a debt ceiling increase, as well as other issues.

On immigration, Brat said, “If the other side is serious about a conversation, just a starter conversation, they have to approve E-Verify. If they won’t step up to that, you know they’re not serious about legal immigration, about keeping track of anything.”

As for chain migration, Brat said, “The number reported is 800,000. Well, it’s not 800,000. Each of those persons can bring in their entire extended family once they reach a certain status. And so that gets complex, and it blows up. The left says, if we lose these people, it’s a huge economic loss. Well, the economy will shrink, but no one cares about the total economy. You care about your income after taxes and transfer payments, and that’s what we’ve got to focus on.”

http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/...ration-reform/

The number is closer to two million (1.7 million) and those numbers always grow.

Originally Posted by GeorgiaPeach

The number is closer to two million (1.7 million) and those numbers always grow.

I don't know what the actual number is, but the eventual chain-migration of their family members is not something that is being discussed enough.

They need to make sure E-Verify does what they are pretending it does.

Unless and until it actually verifies that the SS# is a valid, government issued (not printed by the millions) and that that particular number was issued to the person presenting it, it is just another smokescreen.

Again, I've asked people who are employers if it does prove the person holding the card is the person to whom the card was issued by the government. They all just say, 'it just proves it is a valid #."