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Summer Lee: E-Verify cannot be made mandatory for all employers until having first enacted comprehensive immigration reform, because…

On the recordFebruary 3, 2015
E-Verify cannot be made mandatory for all employers until having first enacted comprehensive immigration reform, because E-Verify without that would have devastating though unintended consequences.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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E-Verify should be mandatory only after comprehensive immigration reform is enacted to avoid negative effects.

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