Heath Shuler: “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.

For thousands of small farms across the country, fresh fruits, nuts and vegetables are the primary source of income.

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.

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.