Last night on CNN, Our Donald was being interviewed by Erin Burnett (she musta drawn the short straw).
When the discussion left the topic of whether Dr. Ben Carson is sorta, kinda, maybe a little bit like a child molester (because both Carson and child molesters are ‘pathological’, at least in Trump’s mind) and turned to immigration, our wanna-be Maximum Leader couldn’t stop talking about E-Verify. As this was the first time I’ve ever heard him mention the term, I found it significant.
E-Verify, for those who aren’t as obsessive about this stuff as I seem to be, is an electronic system that would be used by employers to make sure a person applying for a job is legally in the country and eligible to work. There is a currently operating system, run by the federal government, which is voluntary. Some states (see the link) have made it mandatory for some or all employers. Arizona, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina have made it mandatory for all employers, while 10 more states require it for state agencies and contractors.
The state-level results have been mixed, but there is reason to believe that a national-level mandatory program, coupled with legalization of illegal immigrants currently in the country, would be a major tool for solving the illegal immigration problem.
So, you ask, how does this kill our incipient Dear Leader’s immigration plan? Thanks for asking! Let’s take a look.
First, you can’t just slap every employer in the country with a requirement to E-Verify every employee. Even a 2% inaccuracy rate would leave almost 3,000,000 people mis-identified as illegals. Under Great Leader Trump’s plan, those people — along with all of the truly illegal immigrants — will be rounded up and pushed through the single door in his Great, Great Wall. So E-Verify, along with a wall… sorry, a Great, Great Wall… and deportation of everyone who is even possibly illegal, just doesn’t work.
Aside from the ‘false positives’, the other problem is that just about every employer won’t want to lose its illegal immigrant employees — that’s why E-Verify isn’t working very well now, after all.
So to make E-Verify work, we have to make it palatable to employers, and the way to do that is to let them keep their current employees, while making them legal. Therefore, E-Verify and total, mass deportation just cannot possibly co-exist.
Therefore, E-Verify only works with granting legal status for illegals.
And if you take those simple steps…… you don’t need a Great, Great Wall…. or any wall at all.
And you’ll save hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars.. and won’t break up families… and won’t totally clog up the court systems…. and…. you get the point.
I wonder if Our Donald will.
Cheers.