SAVE Act Is No Solution

Pressure is mounting in the Democratic-led House of Representatives to act on the SAVE Act (HR 4088), an enforcement-only bill introduced and sponsored by more than 140 Democratic and Republican members of Congress. We don’t need this. What we do need is comprehensive immigration reform.

The SAVE Act would require approximately six million employers to verify the work status of more than 130 million workers within four years using a system that has an error rate of almost 10%.

If this law were in place now, the errors in the SSA database alone could result in 2.5 million people a year being misidentified as unauthorized for employment, even US Citizens. It would make it easier for the government to put religious and humanitarian workers behind bars for so-called “alien smuggling” and waste millions of tax-payer dollars on enforcement, detention and deportation programs that have been tried for the last twenty years and failed to end unauthorized immigration.

Go to: http://www.immigrantslist.org/save

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