Most illegal workers elude E-Verify

From: The Washington Times | February 26, 2010 

The system Congress and the Obama administration want employers to use to help curb illegal immigration is failing to catch more than half of the unauthorized workers it checks, a research company has found. The online tool E-Verify, now used voluntarily by employers, wrongly clears illegal workers about 54 percent of the time, according to Westat, a research company that evaluated the system for the Homeland Security Department. E-Verify missed so many illegal workers mainly because it can't detect identity fraud, Westat said. "Clearly, it means it's not doing its No. 1 job well enough," said Marc Rosenblum, a researcher ...

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