More on workplace enforcement

The "comprehensive" immigration reform bill was defeated for the time being.
This does not mean it is time for people who opposed the bill and to rest.
It is time to use the momentum to secure faithful enforcement of the 1986 Immigration and Naturalization Act.

The proponents of "comprehensive" reform claim that without the electronic verification system that was specified in that bill, effective workplace enforcement is impossible.

However, I received a piece of literature from FAIR, a group against illegal immigration.
Part of it says that, "A secure, verifiable work authorization system was called for in the 1986 law."
If accurate, that indicates that the INS and now ICE were always and are now free to devise an effective workplace enforcement system.

The FAIR mailing continues, "If credit cards companies, banks, and other private enterprises can run millions of verifications daily, there is no reason why we cannot have a system in place that verifies the eligibility of a much smaller number of people hired on any given day."

That statement, coupled with my blog post below, seem persuasive to me that there is no excuse for the failure of the U.S. government to devise a system of effective workplace enforcement. It is some combination of political pressure from employers who want to employ low-cost illegal labor and incompetence.