Heath Shuler: “I most certainly would. In rural America, they struggle so often. Although it is not binding, it doesn't cost any more…”

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.

Unfortunately, and I will say this on both sides, the maturity level is not there from the United States Congress yet.

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

I believe firmly that E-Verify must play an important role in helping to fix our immigration system.