E-Verify Detractors Need a New Spiel
August 16, 2010 | In the News
The Denver [CO] City Council has voted to require public construction contractors and sub-contractors to enroll in E-Verify. One of the Councilmen, Doug Linkhart, reportedly parroted a couple of the standard arguments against the program:
“The system can falsely report a legal worker as being ineligible.”
This claim isn’t necessarily true, but even if it is, it doesn’t prevent a legal worker from keeping his job. E-Verify can only be used to verify new hires; in other words, the worker already has the job. It is illegal and prohibited by the employer’s agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to use E-Verify to pre-screen employees.
