E-Verify: Know the Truth

From BobGriggs.com

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by BobG

A couple of days ago, the AJC published an article (linked below) documenting the standard criticisms of the E-Verify program (formerly known as Basic Pilot), which is the federal database system that can be queried by employers to determine whether or not their new hires are eligible to work in the United States. More and more states, counties and cities are enacting laws requiring employers to verify as a prerequisite to receiving or renewing a business license, or to receive public service contracts.Currently, almost 60,000 businesses nationwide use the system with over a thousand signing up each week.

The author exhibits the anti-immigration enforcement bias often seen in articles about E-Verify. As the owner of a company that is an approved Designated Agent of the E-Verify program and someone who is very familiar with how the E-Verify system works (I use it every day), I could have easily taken the same facts expressed in this article and written a glowing report of E-Verify’s unqualified success.

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