DHS Needs Help to Step Up Immigration Enforcement in the Workplace

E-Verify would identify illegals with “near 100 percent accuracy.”

Ira Mehlman, The Hill, December 29, 2017

One of the few areas of the immigration policy debate where there is near universal consensus is that the availability of jobs in this country is the driving force behind large-scale illegal immigration. Ending the magnet of employment in the U.S. will be a priority for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in 2018, the agency announced this week.  Drying up the supply of jobs available to illegal aliens was the theory behind the employer sanctions provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. That provision made it illegal for employers to hire unauthorized workers. The law has largely been ineffective due to lax enforcement and gaping loopholes that have allowed employers to easily circumvent the intent of the law...........To Read More....