Introduction

Cato's David Beer: E.Verify is supposed to keep illegal immigrants from working in the U.S. The program doesn't do a very good job of keeping ineligible workers from earning money and it occasionally ensnares native-born Americans, he says. It has an error rate of just 0.2%. But if you're running millions of people through this system every year, then you are going to end up with tens of thousands of people be caught up in that error rate.