Senate Immigration Bill Lurches to the Right

An immigration reform package is on its way to the U.S. Senate floor after clearing the Judiciary Committee. The committee’s work on the bill was almost entirely designed to make it more palatable to conservatives — expanding a proto-national ID program and throwing more funds at “border security,” most notably — and thereby get the required 60 votes in the full Senate.
In short, what was necessary to improve the bill’s political fortunes harmed its substance.
The biggest flaw in the bill is “E-Verify,” a national electronic employment verification system that checks identity information of job applicants against government databases. E-Verify is in theory supposed to keep unlawful immigrants out of the labor market. But in reality, not only will it fail to keep people out, it will also hinder job creation with expensive new regulations.

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