Thread: E-verify: An effective no-return policy

E-verify: An effective no-return policy


By BOB DANE August 22, 2018

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The evidence is mounting: An Arizona law requiring employers to verify legal residency of job applicants is deterring illegal aliens from coming and staying in the state.

“We find that an Arizona law reducing employment opportunities for unauthorized migrants decreased emigration from and increased return migration to Mexican source regions with strong initial ties to Arizona,” concluded researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Colorado-Boulder.

The study examined the impact of the Legal Arizona Workers Act, which took effect January 2008. It requires employers in Arizona to use E-Verify, the federal online system that verifies a worker’s identity and authorization to work in the U.S.

Analyzing Mexican ID card (matricula consulare) data, researchers found the rate of illegal immigrants returning to Mexico from Arizona nearly quadrupled from 2005 to 2010.
The increases were especially large for Mexican states closest to Arizona. Sonora, for example, saw a 30 percent increase in the number of migrants returning compared to more distant locales.
The study dovetails with other research showing the influx of illegal aliens fell by almost 50 percent in the seven U.S. states with universal E-Verify laws.

Brian Cadena, associate professor of economics at the University of Colorado and co-author of the Arizona study, noted a Congressional Budget Office estimate that E-Verify could be implemented nationwide for $1.3 billion over 10 years. That would be a drop in the bucket compared to the $135 billion that illegal immigration costs the U.S. annually.

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Good! 30% return to Mexico is something, not great, but something.

Now do facial recognition for drivers license, welfare, food stamps, medical care, school, voting, housing and bank accounts and make it 100%.

"Both E-Verify and the Social Security Administration’s program, immigration experts say, can be beaten with a state ID and a Social Security number belonging to someone else."


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The study dovetails with other research showing the influx of illegal aliens fell by almost 50 percent in the seven U.S. states with universal E-Verify laws.

So, according to the study, we could possible see a reduction of up to 50% of illegal aliens in the country if E-Verify was mandated nationally. That would be huge.

E-Verify, Social Security, and every state Driver's License and ID Card needs to require fingerprints that are also sent to I.C.E. and the F.B.I.

Every state that already requires fingerprints or 1 thumb print for a license of ID card should sent the to I.C.E. and the F.B.I. right now.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

"Both E-Verify and the Social Security Administration’s program, immigration experts say, can be beaten with a state ID and a Social Security number belonging to someone else."

We have to start somewhere.
Use the E-Verify and go after the stolen Social Security and Sate ID loophole.

As has been discussed on another thread, very few things in life are absolutely bullet proof and that applies to E-Verify as well. I suppose when you bring identity theft and identity fraud into play, most electronic programs are susceptible to failure. Although, detecting the bulk of illegals through E-Verify is a win for citizen laborers. Furthermore, a huge majority of illegal aliens residing in this country do not have state issued I.D. cards.

This is not the same E-Verify program that came out over a decade ago. There have been improvements.

Originally Posted by JohnDoe2

"Both E-Verify and the Social Security Administration’s program, immigration experts say, can be beaten with a state ID and a Social Security number belonging to someone else."


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And that right there is the problem.

Originally Posted by MW

So, according to the study, we could possible see a reduction of up to 50% of illegal aliens in the country if E-Verify was mandated nationally. That would be huge.

I think it should be 100%. I'm all for E-Verify, but I also want to see it actually work. I want to see it tweaked so all the flaws are ironed out, and then I want to see go into effect. Mandatory for all employers. But it will do no good if it's broken, which currently it is. Politicians can easily sit down and fix this, if they want to.