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Slash Illegal Immigration: Get E-Verify Passed.

H.R. 319, the Legal Workforce Act MUST pass Congress!

Dear John,

The best way to fight illegal immigration is to require E-Verify. If illegal aliens can't work here, they can't afford to stay here.

That's why NumbersUSA is making passing mandatory E-Verify a top priority. We're making an all-out push this year to get the Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 319) passed. We'll need the participation of all our members. We'll be placing phone calls ... providing e-mail and fax content to our members ... campaigning on Capitol Hill ... launching statewide campaigns for the passage of state laws ... and calling out the members of Congress who fail to support E-Verify!

But we'll need financial backing for this. Our goal is a million messages sent to Congress, each one sent to a member of Congress from their own constituent. Please make sure you've taken any actions on your Action Board. But then please come back to donate. Each $25 donation would empower our members to send dozens of messages. We need you, John, to give today to help make sure we can reach our goal.

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Here's what you should know about E-Verify:

E-Verify is a free and simple-to-use, web-based system that electronically verifies the employment eligibility of newly hired employees. There are no additional paperwork requirements or government databases: E-Verify compares employee data from the I-9 form, (already required) against already-existing Social Security Administration and DHS databases. If the information matches, that employee is confirmed as eligible to work in the United States. If there's a mismatch, E-Verify will alert the employer and the employee will be allowed to work while he or she resolves the problem. It's 99.86% accurate.

It's remarkably effective at disincentivizing illegal immigration and boosting Americans' wages. The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that states with E-Verify laws "had fewer illegal immigrants living and working there after E-Verify requirements took effect":

"After Arizona passed an E-Verify mandate in 2008, the number of illegal immigrants working in Arizona fell by 33% below projections. And the number living there fell by 28% below projections."

"In Alabama, the number of illegal immigrants working there fell by 57% below projections, and the number living there fell by 10%."

"Mississippi experienced the biggest declines: The number of illegal immigrants working there fell by 83% below projections and the number living there by 70%."

The Washington Post reports,

"In the states that have mandated near-universal E-Verify, ... wages for U.S. born and naturalized Hispanic men rose between 7 and 9 percent."

--The Washington Post, May 22, 2018.

Employers like it. In 2020 alone, over a million companies used E-Verify to hire ten million employees at nearly 3 million job sites. The government's 2020 Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) found that 87% of E-Verify users were satisfied, making it one of the most popular government programs as rated by program users.

Voters want it. 79% of voters (including 61% of Hispanic voters) support requiring employers to verify worker status, according to a Washington Post poll.

In fact, E-Verify is so popular that it's almost impossible to find anyone who admits to opposing it. Unfortunately, there are plenty of employers who like a massive, unregulated, underpaid, illegal workforce. And apparently, they have considerable sway with policymakers in Washington. But no one wants to go on record as saying, "Sure! We want illegal aliens taking American jobs! It helps us suppress wages!"

That's why NumbersUSA is taking action: if only Congress takes a vote on E-Verify, we'll know who really stands with American workers and legal residents. The good news is that the new Republican House leadership supports a vote on E-Verify.

But we'll never get anything through Congress on a strictly partisan basis. We need to get more Democrats to support American workers. Congratulations to Rep. Ed Case of Hawaii for becoming the first Democrat since 2013 to cosponsor the Legal Workforce Act!

Do you know whose support we need to pass E-Verify? YOURS, John! We need your support now to make sure we haven't come so far for naught. It might take us until the next presidency to pass E-Verify. Or perhaps Pres. Biden and the Democrats who run the Senate might decide that this is not the hill they are willing to die on. But if we are ever going to get an E-Verify mandate passed, we need the House to act NOW! Will you support us TODAY?

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