'An Irony': Shutdown Fight Over Border Security Takes Toll On Immigration Enforcement
Source: NPR
The government shutdown began with the president's demand for border security money. But it's also shut down E-Verify, a federal program that's supposed to prevent immigrants from working illegally.
If U.S. employers want to check whether their prospective hires are eligible to work, they can't. The E-Verify database is "currently unavailable due to a lapse in government appropriations," according to a note on the government-run web site.
"There's an irony there," says Julie Pace, an attorney specializing in employment and immigration law at Cavanagh law firm in Phoenix. "We have an electronic wall for E-Verify that should be being used, that the government has not funded," Pace said.
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Border Patrol agents at the Southwest border are working, but they won't get paid until the shutdown ends. So are tens of thousands of other immigration agents in the Department of Homeland Security.
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