Sens. Romney and Cotton Propose Universal E ‐​Verify and Minimum Wage Hike

Alex NowrastehSenators Romney (R-UT) and Cotton (R-AR)announced that they intend to introduce a bill to raise the national minimum wage and mandate E ‐​Verify for all new hires in the United States. Immigration restrictionists have tried to useminimum wages to reduce immigration for more than a century. Combining a high minimum wage with E ‐​Verify is not as surprising as it first seems. Restrictionists assume that higher minimum wages will increase unemployment for lower‐​skilled workers,which it will, and that will mostly force lower skilled immigrant workers out of the country entirely.E ‐​Verify is an electronic eligibility for employment verification system that checks identities of newly hired workers against government records to guarantee that they are legally employable. Since 1986, illegal immigrants have not been legally allowed to work in the United States.E ‐​Verify is based off a Reagan ‐​era employment verification form called the I-9. After collecting I-9 forms from employees, the employer enters the worker’s information into a government website. The system then compares these data with information held in Social Security Administration (SSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) databases. SSA checks the validity of the Social Security number while DHS checks immigration status.Employers are supposed to fire new employees if E ‐​Verify flags them as being in the United States illegally. In this way, E‐...
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