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I never understood why "conservatives" weren't up in arms over E-Verify. This is effectively a system that gives the executive branch the ability to stop anyon
by Amadou 13y ago
I never understood why "conservatives" weren't up in arms over E-Verify. This is effectively a system that gives the executive branch the ability to stop anyone in the country from getting a job.
Even with all the passive NSA spying in the news, it is hard to imagine a system that more fundamentally conflicts with traditional american values than one that lets the president determine who and who is not eligible to support themselves and their family.
Even if we assume it will never be used for political gain in the style of gerrymandering or direct persecution, just having an unreasonably high accuracy rate of 99.99% that means 1 out of 10,000 will find the government interfering with their ability to get a job. Meanwhile any person seeking to circumvent the system will probably find it easy enough since the security on all of the data sources is so varied - you just need one low-paid clerk in one town willing to put bogus entries in their system and it will feed up to E-Verify.
- stackspace 13y ago> I never understood why "conservatives" weren't up in arms over E-Verify. This is effectively a system that gives the executive branch the ability to stop anyone in the country from getting a job. Because most people it would stop are brown.
- Vivtek 13y ago... or so they're led to believe. Good PR is 90% of any battle.