At least two in every three illegal aliens don’t sneak across the border and enter America legally as students, tourists or guest workers and then overstay their visas. That is the reason why President Donald Trump could build the 100-foot tall border wall and still not end illegal immigration, Newsweek analyzes.
Recently, Representative Lamar Smith introduced a bill to prevent anyone unauthorized to work in the United States from competing with American workers. The Legal Workforce Act would require all employers to use E-Verify. The online program checks in a minute whether a certain worker is authorized to work in the States and if it is mandatory, illegal migrants could not work in the United States and those who plan to move to there would be discouraged. In that way, the competition would be smaller and Americans would have an easier time finding jobs and winning pay rises.
Eight million illegal workers are not going back to their home countries mainly because of the promise of higher pay. The average low-skilled worker from Mexico can earn ten times as much in the United States. A study by Stanford and Princeton researchers shows that workers from Mexico have displaced African-American laborers in multiple industries in Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
“A one percentage point increase in the share of undocumented workers [in the workforce] can be expected to reduce earnings of [legal] workers by six percent across all sectors, on average; by 26 percent in construction; and by four percent in leisure and hospitality,” a Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta report states.
E-Verify cross-references newly hired workers’ I-9 employment eligibility forms with their Social Security numbers, visas, and other identification documents and a few seconds spits out one of three results. The online site may confirm an applicant is authorized to work in America, it may issue a “tentative non-confirmation,” which a new hire can appeal, or ask an employer for more time to return an answer. Last year, E-Verify stopped over 50,000 illegal aliens from entering the workforce.
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