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E-Verify Laws Across Southern Red States Are Barely Enforced@NewkirkMargaret More stories by Margaret NewkirkPoliticsEven the most anti-immigration states don’t like cracking down on business.ByAugust 23, 2018, 11:00 AM CDT Corrected August 27, 2018, 3:17 PM CDTIllustration: 731In 2011 states across the Southeast passed laws that threatened private employers with dire consequences—including losing their license to do business—if they didn’t enroll with a federal data service called E-Verify to check the legal status of new hires. Modeled after 2008 measures in Arizona and Mississippi and billed as a rebuke to a do-nothing Obama administration, the laws went further than those in the 13 states that required checks for new hires only by state agencies or their contractors.Seven years later, those laws appear to have been more political bark than bite. None of the Southern states that extended E-Verify to the private sector have canceled a single business license, and only one, Tennessee, has assessed any fines. Most businesses caught violating the laws have gotten a pass.E-Verify (If You Want To)Read more at: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-23/e-verify-laws-across-southern-red-states-are-barely-enforced