Hearing on Proposals to Improve the Electronic Employment Verification and Worksite Enforcement System

Beyond its influence on work, expanding electronic verification would impose many costs on the country and society. The dollar costs of a nationwide electronic verification system would be high. Electronic verification would have far greater privacy consequences than the current I-9 system — and these consequences would fall on American citizens, not on illegal immigrants. Expanded electronic verification would invert our federal system and explode limited government.