Now THAT's Accurate

Last week, I pointed out that the E Verify program is accurate 97% of the time, but a national media story spun the statistics to make it look like the system was innacurate. 

The Republic's Daniel Gonzalles has written a follow up story in which he does an excellent job describing the test results. 

Ninety-three percent of the cases checked were legal workers or U.S. citizens who were accurately identified on the first try.

The Westat report, which surfaced last week, found that E-Verify does falsely reject some U.S. citizens and legal workers but only 0.7 percent of the time.

E-Verify, however, does a poor job of preventing illegal immigrants using stolen identities from getting jobs, the report found. Westat estimated that 54 percent of the illegal immigrants run through E-Verify are wrongly deemed authorized to work, or about 3.3 percent of the total, because of identity theft.

Comments

[Carol]

And obtaining work through use of a false ID is a non-waiveable bar to ever legally immigrating.

[T.J.]

Lovely. Because the current system can't detect stolen identities, Giffords wants to "encourage" employers to "voluntarily" hire a "private contractor" to check my identity and then tie that information to my thumbprint? Wow, not creepy at all. Why not impant a microchip behind my ear and be done with it?

The current system clearly has limitations, but it seems to be a reasonable compromise between enforcement and privacy. This new plan is a nightmare.

[Brittanicus]

Even if a Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill passed, do we really think that the hundreds of thousands of criminal illegal immigrants walking the streets is coming out of the so called shadows? Neither are they going to answer the door to the adjudicator, who is out counting the population for the 2010 US Census. They will run and hid, because the came here illegally thumbing their noses at The People's Law and don't trust the US government. Let's face it, a great majority of the American people cannot trust the government, because they continuously lie to us. Two politicians that must--GO--in the midterm elections is Sen. Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Has anybody ever considered the fact that no immigration enforcement tool ever really--WORKS. The fence-No Match letter-ICE raids.

ALL WERE COMPROMISED. The First line of defense the International fence was meant to be a double barrier, not a single fence. Places in Indian reservations and barren areas have no restrictions, no tower, no sensors, no cameras. No match letter was rescinded. ICE raids have been cut well back by Napolitano. Border states need a lot of help? They are uninterrupted by the illegal immigration invasion. That's why states like California that refuses to immunize itself against the invasion and need budgetary stewards like Steve Poizner, as a new governor who promises to fight back against supporting illegal alien families public entitlements Sen. Shelby shows his support for rescinding the instant Birthright Citizenship for any pregnant female, who makes it past federal agents at airports or at the borders.

WE NEED NO MORE AMNESTIES, MAKE E-VERIFY PERMANENT , FULLY FUND 287 (G) FOR LOCAL POLICE AND RESUME EXPANDED ICE RAIDS. Learn more at NUMBERSUSA , JudicialWatch, and Americanpatrol. Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and asked for your Senator or Congressman. In addition bombard your State Representatives to enforce state laws. Just look to the State of California, that has been labeled a--SANCTUARY STATE--because its run by a horde of Democrats who are really liberals under their skin, that have pandered to the illegal alien occupation. Now the state is dead--BROKE--with not enough money to pay its bills.

[Brittanicus]

This is--WHY--E-Verify must be fully funded, permanent and using the money to make the program a keystone of immigration enforcement. It's being updated constantly with new innovations including using green card holders and complimentary data bases. No! its not been perfected yet, but give it time? There are many business elements that doesn't want the program to succeed, nor thousands of other organizations that have a ominous reasons which is power-money and large profits. E-Verify is not going the way of the Do-Do.bird, as it will get stronger and it's databases cross-reference with perhaps even with IRS and Census records. Even now politicians are trying to substitute E-Verify, for some other tool. I don't trust them as they will do anything to undermine any working tool. With the technology we have inherited today, we can mandate its use and hire the top computer engineers to perfect its ability, to deport every illegal immigrant in America.

Not the 12 million facade that we have brain washed with, but the--REAL--number of somewhere between 20 and 30 unauthorized foreigners bleeding our nation dry. E-Verify in its second generation performance, could be used to drivers license irregularities, vehicle registrations, insurance fraud, along with house mortgages, health care and much more. Every local police department should be funded to train its police in the 287 (G) program, with instruction to arrest and hand over to ICE. Then ICE should not be blocked by a wimpy Janet Napolitano, who has ordered the agents to slowly desist on immigration raids. Perhaps the inception of the "TEA PARTY" movement has an agenda to stop this absolute travesty of our immigration enforcement? Immigration is one big game, playing with peoples lives. It starts with national security? Politicians pushing New Employee Verification Act, or NEVA, is just another hold-up, to staunch the use of E-Verify. Just more corrupt lawmakers who owe favors to parasite business groups, who want to see the end to E-Verify.

[stephen]

"...as it will get stronger and it's databases cross-reference with perhaps even with IRS and Census records."

You want the vast majority of the legal workforce to be a part of a national registry that "permits" them to work because you're hell bent on preventing some migrant workers from getting a job? Are these the small government tea party folks I'm hearing? Amazing.

[mahtso]

"You want the vast majority of the legal workforce to be a part of a national registry that "permits" them to work because you're hell bent on preventing some migrant workers from getting a job? Are these the small government tea party folks I'm hearing? Amazing."

I can't speak to what others want, but isn't requiring every worker to have a SS number already accomplishing the worst of that? That is, once we were all required to have a SSN in order to work legally, the key component was in place.

As to stopping migrants from working: in my opinion, that is not a goal that most people are in favor of. Stopping migrants who are in the country illegally from working, however, is a goal that many, myself included, do favor. Why? For me reasons include: (1) the Az Republic's report that smuggling humans is a $1.7 to 1.8 billion a year business in Arizona, all of which must be laundered; (2) the negative effect on wages (and yes, I am willing pay more for my produce and other items that illegal migrants are working to produce, which in Arizona included houses); (3) the social cost to families in which children are citizens and their parents are here illegally.