E-Verify is an online system that’s supposed to prevent illegal aliens from getting hired. Even though it’s voluntary for employers, it has shown itself to be quite effective. But recent high-profile failures, including the hiring of an illegal alien as a police officer in Maine, have raised questions about the system.
The problem turns out to be not E-Verify but identity theft. And Congress can fix it.
Congress created E-Verify in 1996 to give employers a reliable method of checking the work authorization of new employees. The widespread availability of fraudulent documents had thoroughly undermined the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986’s purely paper-based “I-9” process, requiring employers to check the identity and work-authorization documents of new hires.
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While still largely voluntary, E-Verify has grown
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