The Denver [CO] City Council has voted to require public construction contractors and sub-contractors to enroll in E-Verify. One of the Councilmen, Doug Linkhart, reportedly parroted a couple of the standard arguments against the program:
“The system can falsely report a legal worker as being ineligible.”
This claim isn’t necessarily true, but even if it is, it doesn’t prevent a legal worker from keeping his job. E-Verify can only be used to verify new hires; in other words, the worker already has the job. It is illegal and prohibited by the employer’s agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to use E-Verify to pre-screen employees.
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Only about a third of Arizona’s 100,000 employers are using E-Verify, despite the fact that the requirement has been in effect for more than two years and businesses that do not verify risk losing their business license:
During E-Verify’s most recent full fiscal year, which ended in September 2009, Arizona employers made more than 1.3 million new hires but ran just 730,000 E-Verify checks.
Most Arizona employers aren’t using E-Verify
Meanwhile, Gwinnett County maintains is reputation as the drug hub of the southeast:
Battles between rival drug gangs have made Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, one of the world’s deadliest cities. More than 800 people have been killed this year in the city of 1.3 million people.
Shootings kill 16 people in Mexican border city | ajc.com
Arizona, a state that knows better than any about the negative impact of illegal immigration, now has the toughest law in the nation. President Obama used the bill’s signing to pimp amnesty at the national level, calling the new law “irresponsibility.”
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," Brewer said after signing the law. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created a dangerous and unacceptable situation."
Ariz. governor signs immigration enforcement bill
Note: Cross posted from BobGriggs.com.
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