A Notion of Immigrants 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, Victoria Hugo-Vidal exposes the dirty little secret of the anti-immigration crowd. A nugget:
The first would be to mandate the use of E-Verify at every employer in America. E-Verify is a simple government system that checks to make sure a person is legally allowed to work in America, using records from the Social Security Administration – to see if the employee has a legitimate Social Security number – and from the Department of Homeland Security. . . .
So why aren’t we, as a country, using these two very simple steps to cut down on demand for undocumented labor? Because big businesses and politicians don’t actually want to do that.
Follow the link for her reasoning.