How Accurate is E-Verify?
When it comes to preventing unauthorized immigration, border security gets the most attention. Employment verification may be equally important. Nearly half of unauthorized immigrants cross the border legally but overstay their visas. Further, between two-thirds and three-quarters of working unauthorized immigrants pay Social Security taxes, meaning that they were hired with forged or since-expired documents?through the same channels as “documented” legal workers.
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