Report

Verification Nation: How E-Verify Affects America’s Workers

In this report, we analyze the findings of a USCIS-commissioned study about the E-Verify program and examine the adverse impacts on workers that would result from a national E-Verify mandate.

Published Aug 8, 2013

As part of the current national dialogue about reforming our country’s immigration laws, legislators in both the Senate and the House of Representatives have proposed a national mandate to require all employers to use E-Verify—an electronic employment eligibility verification system—to check their workers’ eligibility to be employed in the United States.

In the midst of these discussions, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released to the public a study narrowly focused on the E-Verify program’s accuracy rates. In this report, we analyze the findings of the USCIS-commissioned study and examine, more broadly, the adverse impacts on workers that would result from a national E-Verify mandate.

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