Breitbart: Yes, the wall on our southwest border can and should be built. But it is less important than enacting the mandatory E-Verify system for employment.
Let’s face it. We all know it is the prospect of a better life through employment that attracts the vast majority of border jumpers. Our system for blocking unlawful employment of foreign-born workers who lack a lawful work permit has always been a joke, and under Obama, enforcement has been an even lower priority than it was under Bush.
Congress can turn off the jobs magnet by enacting the mandatory E-Verify program, an internet-based system allowing instant verification of the legal status of job applicants. It has an error rate of less than 1 percent and costs employers next to nothing.
Foreign born workers have no constitutional right to employment. Like every European country, Mexico and all of the advanced nations of the world, the United States has a system of “work authorization permits” for legal employment by immigrants and all foreign nationals. The problem is, our laws against unlawful employment are not enforced– in fact, they are unenforceable without major changes and improvements. read more
It would be a start …
And Congress could pass it and have it waiting for Mr. (Pres.) Trump’s signature.
izlamo delenda est …
Top priority? Build the fucking wall and deport,deport,deport.
Given long enough the Hispanics will learn how to game the e-verify system.
REALLY kill the incentive to jump the border and invade us: NO WELFARE OF ANY KIND FOR NON-CITIZENS…EVER!
E Verify still lives. We need an employees ID number to do Fed work. Obama, and Bush just stopped them from actually doing their jobs. There’s no infrastructure or organization that needs to be created. I would be very surprised if Trump was not already planning on using E Verify.
https://www.uscis.gov/e-verify
Every company must have a c-suite name/title attached to the e-verify process, who will face jail time for violations.
Let us stop playing.
There is no new legislation needed. E verify already exists as do a whole plethora of other laws that aren’t being enforced.
Dry up the jobs, punish the employers, stop the benefits including education and free medical care at the ER.
it’s amazing how quickly Americans would start working for an honest wage in a vastly improved economy.
How many boat anchors around our waists are there? It’s incalculable.
Next to nothing, but not nothing. This little problem could be solved if employers were awarded a bounty for reporting illegal aliens applying for work.
I understand it is expedient to put employers on the hook, but catching, prosecuting, and deporting illegal aliens is properly a police function. Employers are not, and should not be forced to be, cops. Make it worth their while, though, and that might work out pretty well.
Uncle Al is on to something.
Besides a reporting bounty, make it a crime to hire illegals off the books for cash, too.
Exactly what PHenry said. And Uncle Al has a great idea too.
Wow! Electronic verification — no eternal logging, of course — with The Federal Government for everybody, to acquire permission to go about their lives, because it might catch some illegal activity, if the criminals are stupid enough to comply. It’s brilliant! Why didn’t anybody implement this before? Come to think of it, there are, oh so many, potential crimes Big Sister could save us from, if only we’d all ask “Sister, may I?” every time we, well, do anything.
It’s been reported in previous years that Barry doesn’t pass e-verify due to an irregularity with his SS#. Maybe he’ll bypass trouble by being considered self-employed after he leaves office…a Social Agitation Consultant perhaps? What we know for sure is that his fraudulent background will never be investigated.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/why-couldnt-healthcare-gov-validate-obamas-identity/
Tancredo, Brad and Uncle Al are correct. E-Verify is an in-place system, mandatory, it seemed, almost twenty years ago.
We need to *make* it mandatory — and report the illegals. Illegals are illegals…. ….what part of that don’t you understand?
There’s so much exciting clean up, paint and polish work America needs, it’s silly to waste a minute more time on a problem that is likely to self-disappear. E-Verify!
…Lady in Red
Whole damn system needs to tossed out. Time to start with a clean sheet of paper. A niece, with an accounting degree from UW-Seattle, had to pay a fortune over a few years to legally go through the immigration process. Meanwhile muslims who’ve declared their hate for this country are approved at the bottom of the jetway and handed 10s of thousands of dollars. Next issue: What to do about farmers who rely on south of the border types?
E Verify was put in place in 2007 under George W. They left it to the states to decide whether to participate and in some cases the counties make the decision. Unless you were doing work for the Federal Government. We used it back in 2007 and 2008 and it seemed like a pretty good system. My impression is E Verify will do the job. we just need to use it.
From Wiki….
E-Verify was originally established in 1997 as the Basic Pilot Program to prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining employment illegally in the United States. In August 2007, DHS secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce secretary Carlos Gutierrez announced several steps to expand employment eligibility verification. They started by requiring all federal contractors and vendors to use E-Verify. The Internet-based program is free and maintained by the United States government. Some states have passed legislation making it mandatory for certain businesses, other states require all employers use E-Verify.
E-Verify compares information from an employee’s Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 to data from U.S. government records. If the information matches, that employee is eligible to work in the United States. If there is a mismatch, E-Verify alerts the employer and the employee is allowed to work while he or she resolves the problem; they must contact the appropriate agency to resolve the mismatch within eight federal government work days from the referral date.[1] The program is operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with Social Security Administration.
….as a federal contractor, I was required to use it — at the beginning. Polish the computer code, if you will, but use it. …..Lady in Red
One thing we have plenty of is laws. If we enforced what we have in the books already all the lawmakers we have could take a year to two off.
“Foreign born workers have no constitutional right to employment”
whaaaaa? I, as a citizen, have a constitutional right to employment?
man, my copy must be old ….
All of the above.
Michael Medved has called him “Tancrazy” for years. I imagine he’ll be doing so again tomorrow. I will never know for sure, as that was one of my New Years resolutions.
All they have to do is ENFORCE E-verify. It’s a 72 hour
requirement to provide the credentials and the
company to sign an affidavit after hiring.
I know because I do the I-9’s for new employees where
I’m at.