Ten Things to know about E-Verify

From the Center for American Progress:

The 10 Numbers You Need to Know About E-Verify
What It Will Cost Employers, Employees, and the Taxpayers
By Philip E. Wolgin

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX), left, accompanied by Rep. Peter King (R-NY), right, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington.
 
This week the House Judiciary Committee will be marking up a bill to make E-Verify, the government’s Internet-based system that checks whether prospective employees are authorized to work, mandatory for all employers in the United States. E-Verify is an immigration enforcement tool—it is an expensive government mandate that will cost Americans their jobs and crush small businesses.

As we explain in our report “Seen and (Mostly) Unseen,” three-quarters of a million Americans will lose their jobs because of E-Verify database errors, while 1.2 to 3.5 million Americans will have to visit a government office just for permission to start a job they already have. Worst of all, it does not even do what it is supposed to—E-Verify fails to catch unauthorized immigrants more than half of the time. This faulty system will cost the taxpayers $17.3 billion over ten years, while small businesses will pay approximately $2.6 billion to use the system—money they will not be able to put toward job creation.

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