Debunking E-Verify

The Cato Institute has some nice links up on its blog debunking some of the propaganda in favor of the federal E-Verify system for checking the employment status of workers.

Writes Jim Harper

E-Verify has been offered up as a panacea for immigration problems, but the cure is worse than the disease. I wrote at length about the regulatory burdens, complexities, and principled reasons to oppose electronic employment verification on principle in a paper called “Franz Kafka’s Solution to Illegal Immigration.”