The Citizen-Times captured a diversity of opinions on the Republican bill not vetoed by Beverly Perdue, that requires businesses to run E-verify checks on potential employees.
“It’s supereasy,” said Oswald, whose plant in Woodfin was raided by federal immigration agents in August 2008 and had 57 Hispanic employees arrested on alleged immigration violations.
“I’m fed up with them,” said Bothwell, who plans to seek the Democratic nomination for the congressional seat held by U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler. “Republicans ran as advocates of small government and local control. And once they got in charge in Raleigh, they’ve been dictating things right and left.
“It’s more evidence of the state legislature tackling straw issues to appeal to some members of their base, instead of addressing the problems that really face the state.”
According to them-thar proverbial sources, E-verify is 99.5% accurate with an 8% error rate. (The proof is left as an exercise for the reader.) In spite of requirements, the Social Security Administration reportedly did not E-verify 19% of new hires over an 18-month period.
