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E-Verify: Banning Illegals from the Workplace or Trojan Horse?
E-Verify is in the news. What is this program about? And what kind of limits are imposed on this program?
E-Verify operates with speed and accuracy. E-Verify is the government’s only free, fast, online service of its kind that electronically confirms an employee’s information against millions of government records and provides results within as little as three to five seconds. To learn more about the verification process, visit the verification process page.
It is run by the US by Social Security Administration and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
The USCIS facilitates compliance with U.S. immigration law by providing E-Verify program support, user support, training and outreach, and developing innovative technological solutions in employment eligibility verification.
So that is the upbeat and pleasant explanation offered by the federal government. But critics of the program see a more dangerous scenario than that one.
The main question being asked is: Can it even possibly end up being a Trojan horse wielded by Biden or others, like California Gov. Newsom, that will deny a specific person or group of people the right to work?
As with many controversial subjects, the Brownstone Institute has weighed in on the issue. The most telling portion of that essay lies in these sentences:
Giving the government the power to treat hiring as a privilege that they must approve has all the potential of a central bank digital currency but for jobs.
You cannot hire her. She is an undesirable for her political views.
You cannot hire him. You are behind on your diversity requirements.
You cannot hire a new worker, inflation is too high.
You cannot hire at all. We don’t like you.
Gov DeSantis in Florida has already signed off on E-verify legislation. It is hard to know if you aren’t in Florida if this legislation will be the Trojan horse the Brownstone article warns of.
Or perhaps there are safeguards built into the Florida legislation such that it can only be involved with establishing the legitimacy of anyone wanting a job as far as the visa, green card and/or citizenship status.
Supposedly in Florida, it will only be applied to employers with more than 25 workers.
I don’t like that a major push allowing this new program might succeed without all the pro’s and con’s being fully discussed.
After all, the negative situations created by the enacting of the program by Fed law are “still unknown.” But once it is fully employed, there will be no turning back.
Like the recent mRNA vaccine issue rolled out amid media and “health expert” acclaim, is this to be another imposition on our society allowed only due to the new principle of “only time can tell?”
Should it end up having more devastating consequences than the hoopla over its inception, will the public soon enter the regime of E-verify only to find it a dark and nasty place, while the media continues to assure us that “all is well?”
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Man I totally didn’t see the anti-immigration right come out against E-Verify. Did not have that one on the old bingo card.
For what it’s worth as a user of the system I don’t see any evidence that the government is or really can use the system to prevent groups of people they don’t agree with from working. Its really a very basic way to verify if someone is who they say they are…… Is it fool proof? Not at all but it is pretty useful. You are basically checking that an applicant’s name, ID, SS#, etc, all match.
The problem is this one: will the government ever decide to allow this program to morph “ever so slightly” at first and then as if on steroids just a short year or two later?
Consider this as an example: Our income tax was, at first, a way from receiving some dough from the ultra wealthy so that various programs could go forth. (Mainly, during its first year or two, The Great War which we fought in 1917 and 1918.)
But that soon morphed into a way to garner huge amounts of money from the average citizens, who now must also pay the state income and sales taxes.
On top of that, with this ever increasing supply of monies, the Fed government has created numerous agencies each with various divisions and departments under it.
So now our citizenry is ruled not only by the Federal, state, county and city governments, with whom we would have a standing in a court of law, but with agencies. Run amuck of any one of them, and the citizen soon finds that there is not court room but a hearing room, and the judge is an administrative person from the agency overseeing that individual.