E-Verify was meant to screen out illegals from taking American jobs, but ICE's recent raid on Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska, shows it doesn't really work.
The raid was the largest worksite enforcement operation in the state since the start of the Trump administration:
The owners of the plant were perplexed.
Chad Hartmann, president of Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, said the plant that was raided used E-Verify, a federal database used for checking employees' immigration status. He told Reuters that when he said this to a federal agent, the agent responded ‘the system is broken' and urged him to contact his local congressional representative.
Apparently, E-Verify does very little to stop an illegal immigrant from getting a job in the U.S.
‘It would be hard to design a more ineffective system than E-Verify,' said Alex Nowrasteh, a director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington. ‘The system only checks the documents that you give it. It doesn't check the worker. That's the fatal flaw.'
Essentially, an illegal immigrant just needs to get a copy of someone's social security number, birth certificate, and a fake photo ID, which apparently costs about $1,000.
E-Verify doesn't compare the photo ID with the real person; it only verifies that the identity exists and that person is eligible for employment in the U.S.
‘The problem, [Jim Gilliland, a spokesman for Koch Foods,] said, is not just that the system fails to detect fraud, but that there's also a tension between immigration laws on verifying employment eligibility and federal laws on national origin discrimination.
‘If we request more documents than we're supposed to or refuse to hire a worker on the basis that the worker comes from another country, we're at liability of the over-documentation clause that is part of federal discrimination law,' Gilliland said. ‘We can't do that. We have to make a judgment call, and the judgment call is the E-Verify system.'
In other words, employers aren't allowed to question the ID presented to them, or they can be charged with discrimination.
The absolute state of things.
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