Make E-Verify the Norm, Not the Exception
Donald Trump has recently issued his most influential
executive order on immigration to date. Unfortunately, his order didn't come
from the executive branch -- or anywhere in the federal government, for that matter.
Instead, it came from the Trump Organization, the president's private company.
The firm recently announced that its hotels,
resorts, and golf clubs would adopt E-Verify -- the free, online federal
program which allows employers to check the legal status of prospective
workers. Although Trump deserves credit for embracing the program, the
vast majority of the nation's employers have yet to follow suit. This
widespread refusal to adopt E-Verify has led to an economy that exploits
undocumented workers at enormous costs to both native-born Americans and legal
immigrants. Making E-Verify mandatory would hold employers accountable for
their unlawful hiring practices, while humanely reducing the incentive for
workers to make the dangerous trip to come here illegally.
E-Verify has existed in some form
since 1996, and it's remarkably easy to use. Enrolled companies simply enter
the name, birthdate, and Social Security number from a new hire's I-9 form
(which itself is highly subject to fraud) into the online system, and they're
quickly told whether or not the employee is legally eligible to work.
Nearly 99 percent of new hires are
verified as eligible within 24-hours. Most of the remaining 1 percent are
eventually found to be illegal immigrants.
E-Verify is free and available to every employer in the
country. My employer, Clemson University, has been using E-Verify for years
now, and I've never heard of a legal immigrant having a problem.
Unfortunately, most businesses have stayed away from E-Verify, with just 10
percent of employers currently using the program. Why? Because they are
lowering operating costs, so they either don't care or don't want to know if
they are hiring illegal workers. For example, in a recent survey, 37 percent of
illegals in America's three largest cities reported being paid less than the
minimum wage, and 85 percent of them received no overtime pay for working more
than 40 hours per week.
Of course, these exploitative
practices carry significant financial benefits for businesses. According to
Harvard University economist and immigration expert George Borjas, illegals
generate as much as $128 billion in added value for their employers each year.
How ironic that such a perverse plan of income redistribution from the less to
the more fortunate now has almost fanatical support from a significant
percentage of politicians – with this support being driven by their goal of
importing more potential voters into the country.
American workers -- both
native-born and legal immigrants -- suffer as a result. After all, if
businesses have access to a pool of illegal labor willing to work for less than
the minimum wage, why pay legal employees fairly -- or to hire them in the
first place? The result, according to Borjas, is that illegal immigrants lower
the wages of native-born Americans by between $99 and $118 billion a
year.
Mandatory E-Verify would ameliorate many of the problems
arising from illegal immigration. As job opportunities for unauthorized workers
dried up, the incentive to enter the country unlawfully would plummet, wall or
no wall, barrier or no barrier. Overall rates of illegal immigration would
plunge, like they did when Trump was first elected – but this time they would
stay low. Businesses accustomed to exploiting cheap illegal workers would
finally have to pay fair wages to American workers. And Molly Tibbetts, a
20-year old and fellow jogger murdered by an illegal alien whose company didn't
use E-Verify, might still be with us.
THE SECRET REPORT ON TRUMP AND HIS PARASITIC FAMILY’S
DESIGNS TO FLOOD AMERICA WITH CHEAP LABOR
TRUMP HOWLS ABOUT HAVING TO PAY LEGALS A LIVING WAGE AT
SWAMP PALACE MAR-A-STOLEN.
“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican
alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world
hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.”
---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER
STARING IN THE FACE of
AMERICA’S UNRAVELING and the ROAD TO REVOLUTION
“It will more likely come on the heels of
economic dislocation and dwindling wealth to redistribute.”
“Our
entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become
a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This
is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” -- Karen McQuillan THEAMERICAN
THINKER.com
"The
kind of people needed for violent change these days are living in
off-the-grid rural compounds, or the “gangster paradise” where
the businesses of drugs, guns, and prostitution are much more
lucrative than “transforming” America along Cuban lines." BRUCE
THORNTON
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There can be no resolution to any social problem confronting the
population in the United States and internationally outside of a frontal
assault on the wealth of the financial elite.
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The political system is controlled by this
social layer, which uses a portion of its economic plunder to bribe politicians
and government officials, whether Democratic or Republican.
Why do all global billionaires want wider open borders, amnesty
and no E-VERIFY?
AMERICA: THE ECONOMY IS RIGGED BY COGRESS SO THE RICH BECOME
SUPER RICH.
The American middle class gets the tax bills for Wall
Street’s crimes and bottomeless bailouts!
Wealth concentration increases in US.
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The latest research on wealth inequality by University of California
economics professor Gabriel Zucman underscores one of the key social and
economic trends since the global financial crisis of 2008. Those at the very
top of society, who benefited directly from the orgy of speculation that led to
the crash, have seen their wealth accumulate at an even faster rate, while the
mass of the population has suffered a major decline.
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The past 40 years have seen the consolidation of a plutocratic
elite, which has subordinated every aspect of American society to a single goal:
amassing ever more colossal amounts of personal wealth. The top one percent
have captured all of the increase in national income over the
past two decades, and all of the increase in national wealth
since the 2008 crash.
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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican
alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world
hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.”
---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER
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