E-Verify: An Assessment of its Strengths and Weaknesses
This discussion focused on E-Verify, the federal government's electronic employment verification system, and assessed the program's strengths and weaknesses.
The goal of mandatory electronic verification is to provide a simple, reliable way for good-faith employers to hire legally authorized workers and deter others from hiring those not eligible to work in the United States.
An MPI report released at this event assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the existing electronic verification system, E-Verify, and recommended steps to minimize the system’s problems and unintended consequences. Speakers presented their findings assessing existing and potential tools for strengthening identity authentication, and recommending next-generation verification concepts that would tap new technologies and practices to overcome the core weaknesses of the current system.
Speakers:
Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director, U.S. Immigration Policy Program, MPI
Gerri Ratliff, Deputy Associate Director, National Security and Records Verification Directorate, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
Marc Rosenblum, Senior Policy Analyst, MPI
James W. Ziglar, former Commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and MPI Senior Fellow
About the U.S. Immigration Policy Program
The U.S. Immigration Policy Program provides analysis of U.S. immigration pathways, the impacts of enforcement and other policies, and the characteristics of immigrant populations.
