November 24, 2008 12:39PM

Scrap E‑Verify

By Jim Harper

The 111th Congress and the new Obama administration should scrap "E-Verify." The federal government's inchoate immigration background check system is the culmination of 20 years' failure to create a tolerable "internal enforcement" program for U.S. immigration law. Rather than building on past failure, the new Congress and president should pull the plug on E-Verify and reform immigration law so that it aligns with the nation's economic need for labor.

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