THE
STAGGERING COST OF THE WELFARE STATE MEXICO AND THE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT
PARTY HAVE BUILT BORDER to OPEN BORDER’
According to the Federation
for American Immigration Reform’s 2017 report, illegal
immigrants, and their children, cost American taxpayers a net $116 billion
annually -- roughly $7,000 per alien annually. While high, this number is not
an outlier: a recent study by the Heritage
Foundation found that low-skilled immigrants (including those here
illegally) cost Americans trillions over
the course of their lifetimes, and a study from the National
Economics Editorial found that illegal immigration
costs America over $140 billion annually. As it stands, illegal immigrants are
a massive burden on American taxpayers.
MARK KRIKORIAN
E-VERIFY – Why both parties hate the word!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/08/mark-krikorian-wheres-e-verify-dont.html
Putting employers of illegals in prison would end the foreign invasion today!
EYE ON THE NEWS
December 13, 2018
Electronic Barriers
While the nation squabbles over a border wall, technology could help cut off the supply of jobs to illegal immigrants.December 13, 2018
Politics and law
Economy, finance, and budgets
Donald Trump was elected president because a large segment of the American
public was fed up with the government’s failure to stop mass illegal immigration.
Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. drew an
ecstatic response from his supporters, long scorned for their belief that the
decision regarding who enters the country belongs to Americans, not to foreign
nationals living outside the country. But the wall has not been built, and the
fight over its funding has sucked political capital from the pursuit of other,
and arguably better, means to deter illegal immigrants.
The most important of those measures is to
prevent unauthorized aliens from getting work, since the jobs magnet is the
primary lure for illegal immigration. Commentators and analysts across the
political spectrum have acknowledged that preventing illegal employment is key
to deterring illegal immigration. The New York Times editorialized in
1982 that “there can be no effective enforcement of the borders” without
mandatory verification of a worker’s papers. A technology has existed for
decades to do just that. E-Verify, run by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Service, allows employers to check—instantaneously and for free—whether the
work documents presented by a potential employee correspond to an existing
Social Security number or whether they are forged. Universal implementation of
E-Verify has been blocked, however, by employers who prefer to hire illegal
aliens over American workers.
Trump invoked E-Verify during the 2016 campaign
but has since stopped publicly promoting it. Yet E-Verify is more popular with
the public than the wall; at least two-thirds of poll respondents support
mandatory verification of a worker’s lawful status. States that require it
(Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, and Utah) have changed worker behavior. Illegal aliens dropped off the
payrolls in Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, prompting employers to
hire legal workers, according to a 2013 study conducted by Bloomberg
Government. A 2017 study by Carnegie Mellon University found that Arizona’s
E-Verify law induced return migration from Arizona to Mexico and decreased
illegal immigration into Arizona from Mexico. A study by the Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas found that the population of less educated young Mexican and
Central American immigrants dropped in states with mandatory E-Verify, in part
because they moved to states without the mandate and in part because they
returned to their home countries. Wages for low-skilled American and
legal-immigrant workers in mandatory E-Verify states rose between 7 percent and
9 percent, while wages for illegal Mexican males dropped nearly 8 percent.
Yet enforcement is spotty. Only 2 percent of
businesses in South Carolina were audited in 2017, and 17 percent of that
sample were found not to be using the system. None of the scofflaws, however,
were fined. The Cato Institute has alleged that only 59 percent of Arizona
employers checked a worker’s documents against federal databases in 2017. For
E-Verify to work to its fullest potential, it must be made universal and
enforced, so that employers who use it are not put at a competitive
disadvantage against employers who continue to use cheap (if often more
reliable) illegal labor. The House Judiciary Committee has thrice passed a bill
to mandate universal E-Verify. The most recent iteration, the Legal Workforce
Act, sponsored by Lamar Smith and Ken Calvert and promoted by House Judiciary
Chairman Bob Goodlatte, phases in the employer mandate gradually, starting with
the largest businesses first. It gives agricultural companies 30 months to
comply. Employers who use E-Verify in good faith cannot be penalized, even if
they receive an incorrect eligibility verification. Though the Chamber of
Commerce has endorsed the Smith-Calvert bill, the law has stalled, largely
because of opposition from western agricultural interests.
E-Verify is not foolproof. It only catches phony
work papers that are created out of whole cloth. If an illegal alien has
acquired a valid but stolen identity, including Social Security number and
driver’s license, he will pass the eligibility check. One study of employment
data from 2008 found that half of all illegal workers who submitted papers for
E-Verify were incorrectly found to be authorized for work. The reason for that
false negative was the submission of stolen identities. Those false negatives
represented 3 percent of all E-Verify submissions. Recent reports that Trump
employed illegal aliens at a golf club skirted over the fact that the workers
presented stolen documents to get their jobs. Nevertheless, while some illegal workers
get through the system, many others are deterred from seeking a job.
E-Verify can be tightened up. The Citizenship and
Immigration Service has developed a photo tool that compares the worker
presenting work documents with the original photos in driver’s licenses,
passports, and permanent resident cards. At present, the Social Security
Administration does not inform victims of identity theft that their papers have
been compromised; the Legal Workforce Act would require the SSA to notify a
Social Security holder if his number has been used on numerous, mutually
conflicting, jobs, and it allows workers to lock in their Social Security
number so that it can’t be used by anyone else. With such changes, E-Verify’s
false positive rate could be considerably lowered.
Congressman Lamar Smith has estimated that
illegal labor lowers Americans’ wages by $100 billion a year. That $100 billion
may be good news for business owners and some consumers, but it hits
low-skilled American workers hard. The cost in working-class stability adds to
the existing burdens placed on local school systems, hospitals, and
criminal-justice agencies from a large influx of low-social-capital,
low-skilled illegal migrants. The recent sight of Central American migrants
storming the fence between Mexico and California is a reminder that a more
extensive and better-policed wall is still needed. The asylum process must also
be tightened up; asylum seekers should remain in Mexico while their cases are
assessed for credibility. Birthright citizenship should end, and the law
against immigrant welfare use must be enforced. But over the long run,
preventing illegal aliens from taking jobs from Americans and lawful immigrants
will be the best means of restoring control of U.S. borders and sovereignty.
If Trump wants to demolish the Democrats’
playbook, he should offer to switch federal funding in this round of
budget talks from the wall to E-Verify. Doing so would force Nancy Pelosi
and Chuck Schumer to go on record opposing a legal workforce.
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