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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