Heath Shuler: “The end result would be lost tax revenues and depressed wages and working conditions for all workers, including U.S.…”

Expanding E-Verify--even as part of a broader immigration reform effort--without ensuring that proper safeguards are in place, is just one more way in which E-Verify would not benefit American workers.

Expanding E-Verify without more would also cost the government significant tax revenues.

We need every job we can get, particularly in core industries.

In 2008, the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation concluded that mandatory E-Verify in Rep. Heath Shuler's SAVE Act would decrease federal revenues by $17.3 billion over a 10-year period.