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Where’s E-Verify?<\/strong><\/p>\n Mark Krikorian<\/p>\n July 24, 2018<\/p>\n Illegal immigration isn\u2019t just about criminals and the border \u2014 but that\u2019s almost all we\u2019ve been hearing about, whether at the national level or in the states, as has been the case leading up to today\u2019s Georgia Republican-primary runoff.<\/p>\n Criminal deportations are essential, of course, and need to be increased. Sanctuary cities, shielding such criminals, have to be reined in. And the routine abuse of asylum, especially using children as a ticket into the U.S., has to be quashed.<\/p>\n But most illegal aliens are neither drunk-driving, dope-dealing rapists, nor bogus asylum seekers coached by immigration lawyers on how to game the system. They\u2019re ordinary working stiffs, half of them arriving legally and then never leaving. They\u2019re mainly coming to work, and that\u2019s why weakening the magnet of jobs that attracts is essential both to the practice and the rhetoric of immigration control.<\/p>\n The president must have uttered\/tweeted the words \u201cE-Verify\u201d at some point over the past three years, but no instance comes immediately to mind, certainly not a recent one. Even just a tweet or two would help keep the issue in the public discussion, providing for a more balanced immigration message and giving traction to ongoing efforts such as that of House Judiciary chairman Bob Goodlatte to get an E-Verify mandate passed.<\/p>\n The same holds true in today\u2019s primary vote in Georgia. Both candidates \u2014 Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and Secretary of State Brian Kemp \u2014 check a lot of the right boxes on immigration and don\u2019t have any really obvious red flags. But, as Georgia\u2019s steadfast immigration activist D.A. King has noted, the two candidates:<\/p>\n have mostly kept their immigration focus away from topics that may offend the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and narrowed to \u201csanctuary cities\u201d and on illegal aliens who have already committed additional crimes in the United States \u2014 or \u201ccriminal illegal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n The main driver of illegal immigration is illegal employment, which was not mentioned in either campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This matters because E-Verify is a state issue as well as a federal one. Georgia, one of the nation\u2019s leading illegal-immigration states, does have an E-Verify mandate, but it could be further strengthened and in any case needs consistent oversight and audit….read the rest here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From NRO Where’s E-Verify? Mark Krikorian July 24, 2018 Illegal immigration isn\u2019t just about criminals and the border \u2014 but that\u2019s almost all we\u2019ve been hearing about, whether at the national level or in the states, as has been the case leading up to today\u2019s Georgia Republican-primary runoff. Criminal deportations are essential, of course, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12540,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}