Bill would make immigration E-Verify mandatory

[The Northerner]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill that would require employers to electronically verify the immigration status of potential employees was introduced on Tuesday.

Its sponsor said it would help Americans get jobs while one critical group said it would hurt businesses and immigrant employees.

The measure calls for an expansion of the E-Verify system created under immigration legislation in 1996 and subsequently extended, said a statement from the office of Representative Lamar Smith, House Judiciary Committee Chairman and sponsor of the bill.

"E-Verify is a successful program to help ensure that jobs are reserved for citizens and legal workers," the Texas Republican said in the statement.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110614/us_nm/us_immigration_e_verify

[FLPanhandle]

1. Good.

Make the companies profiting by using cheap illegal labor stop their pricing down of workers wages.

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. Everything you just said.

Yeah it'll hurt businesses that want to pay their workers pennies an hour.

[Igel]

3. 25 years late.

But better than never.