Liberal commentators have written favorably about the
program in the past.... But E-Verify isn't really any better than Trump's
"big beautiful wall."
By David L. Wilson, Truthout
October 12, 2017
E-Verify is back on the political agenda.
For years, politicians have wanted to force all of the country's
7.7 million private employers to check new hires against this online system --
which compares employees' documents with government databases in order to catch
immigrants without work authorization -- but so far, the efforts to impose a
universal E-Verify requirement have failed. Now the idea has been given new
life by a tentative agreement that President Trump and Democratic leaders made
on September 13 to promote legislation protecting the immigrants previously
covered by President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA).[...]
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| Janet Napolitano touts E-Verify in 2011. Photo: Alex Wong / Getty Images |
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