New FAIR Study: States Using E-Verify Now Lead the Way in Economic Recovery
PRESS RELEASE | MARCH 2, 2017
“The universal protections of E-Verify are long overdue. They would greatly reduce the pull factors for illegal immigration and would take immediate pressure off of America’s embattled southern border.”
—dan stein, president of fair
(Washington, D.C.) States that require the use of E-Verify are leading the way in recovery efforts following the worst economic downturn since the great depression, according to a new study released by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The study can be found at
www.fairus.org/issue/2017e-verifyreport.
“E-Verify ensures that only authorized workers gain employment opportunities in the states where it’s being used,” said FAIR’s President Dan Stein. “As a result, American jobs are going to authorized workers, many of whom had abandoned their job hunt altogether and had given up hope of ever again finding employment,” he said.
E-Verify is a system that allows employers to electronically authenticate the legal work eligibility of prospective applicants. First created by Congress in 1996, the optional program has a 99.7 percent accuracy rate, and has been adopted as mandatory by a number of states.
http://www.fairus.org/news/new-fair-study-states-using-e-verify-now-lead-the-way-in-economic-recovery
