Expanding E-Verify Would Hurt Economic Stimulus

From the Immigration Policy Center:

Efforts by anti-immigrant groups to persuade Congress to expand the “E-Verify” program as part of the economic stimulus bill would hinder, not help, the U.S. economy’s recovery.  E-Verify is a voluntary federal program which is deeply flawed and ensnares American job-seekers in database errors, adds to the costs incurred by employers required to use it, and does not actually prevent undocumented immigrants from getting jobs.  With the U.S. economy sinking deeper into recession and the ranks of the unemployed growing with every passing day, now is not the time to delay a rescue package for jobless Americans so that it can be used to score political points in the immigration debate. Yet anti-immigrant groups seem to regard unemployed Americans as little more than collateral damage in their endless war against the foreign-born.

To learn more about the effects that the expansion of E-Verify would have on the nation’s economic recovery check out:

IPC Fact Sheet:

How Expanding E-Verify in the Stimulus Bill Would Hurt American Workers and Business

IPC Press Release:

Want to Stall, not Stimulate, the Economy?  Expand “E-Verify” in the Stimulus Bill

IPC Blog Post:

Unemployed Americans Are Just Collateral Damage in War on Immigrants

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