{"id":3186,"date":"2018-12-12T17:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2018-12-12T17:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:05:52","slug":"e-verify-an-immigration-policy-conservatives-and-liberals-can-get-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/?p=3186","title":{"rendered":"E-verify: An immigration Policy Conservatives and Liberals Can Get Behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>E-verify: An immigration Policy Conservatives and Liberals Can Get Behind<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>CHRONIQUE DES INVIT\u00c9S\/GUEST COLLUMN<\/strong> <em>By Stacy Washington<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is there any way to break the policy logjam on immigration? Most Republicans favor tougher border security measures, while Democrats tend to support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Many progressives, aghast at the separation of parents and children at the border, even want to \u201cabolish ICE\u201d \u2014 the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But conservatives and liberals do agree on one thing: The need to crack down on unscrupulous business owners who hire and exploit illegal immigrants. Fifty-six percent of Democrats, 67 percent of independents, and 81 percent of Republicans support fining such employers, according to a recent poll from NPR-Ipsos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There\u2019s already a free online system designed to prevent businesses from hiring illegal workers: It\u2019s called \u201cE-Verify.\u201d Making it mandatory for all employers would humanely deter people from illegally coming to America in search of work, without the need for a border wall or family separations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">E-Verify is easy to use. Employers simply plug in a new hire\u2019s name, date of birth, and Social Security number. The system checks that data against re cords held by the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security and determines if the person is authorized to work in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">About a quarter of a million businesses already use E-Verify. And some states \u2014 including Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Arizona \u2014 require all private and government employers to use E-Verify on prospective employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mandatory E-Verify could dramatically curb illegal immigration. In 2016, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and Agnes Scott College analyzed several state-level E-Verify mandates. The study suggested that \u201chaving an E-Verify law reduces the number of less-educated prime-age immigrants from Mexico and Central America \u2014 immigrants who are likely to be unauthorized \u2014 living in a state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">By shutting off the jobs magnet that attracts illegal workers, E-Verify would boost the pay of less-skilled Americans and legal immigrants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The House of Representatives was poised to consider an E-Verify bill this summer. But agricultural corporations\u2019 lobbyists on Capitol Hill distorted the legislation by adding provisions that would massively expand guest-worker programs. Bringing in millions more unskilled workers would cancel out the wage gains American workers would enjoy under a mandatory E-Verify system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The economy isn\u2019t as strong as it appears. Although the official unemployment rate is hovering around 4 percent, that figure doesn\u2018t include people who want full-time jobs but can only find part-time work. Nor does it factor in people who have become so discouraged that they\u2019ve given up looking for jobs. If the government counted those folks, the unemployment rate would be about 8 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In other words, roughly 13 million Americans still can\u2019t find full-time work, in part because employers have chosen to hire illegal labourers who accept lower wages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Universal E-Verify would make it much easier to identify and prosecute businesses abusing immigration laws. It\u2019s the cheapest and most effective way to hold corporations accountable and open up job opportunities for Americans and legal immigrants.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stacy Washington is a decorated Air Force Veteran, an Emmy-nominated TV personality, and the host of the nationally syndicated radio program \u201cStacy on the Right.\u201d This piece originally ran in Newsweek.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">cet article est publi\u00e9 par l\u2019hebdomadaire Ha\u00efti-Observateur, \u00e9dition du 12 d\u00e9cembre 2018 et se trouve en <strong>P.7<\/strong>\u00a0\u00e0 :\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/H-O-12-december-2018-2.pdf\">http:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/H-O-12-december-2018-2.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-verify: An immigration Policy Conservatives and Liberals Can Get Behind CHRONIQUE DES INVIT\u00c9S\/GUEST COLLUMN By Stacy Washington Is there any way to break the policy logjam on immigration? Most Republicans favor tougher border security measures, while Democrats tend to support&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[177,1121,1229,1495,1562,1608,2990,3241],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglais","category-usa","tag-american","tag-emme-nominated","tag-federal-reserve","tag-haiti-observateur","tag-homeland","tag-illegal","tag-stacy","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haiti-observateur.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}