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Two dozen House Republicans led by Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) are co-sponsoring legislation that would create an immigration amnesty. The legislation, the “Legal Workforce Act,” would not, though, offer a true amnesty, under which unauthorized workers would be granted legal immigration status.

Call this proposal a “dirty” amnesty. Instead of offering legal status, the Legal Workforce Act promises that if unauthorized immigrants work in the fields, the U.S. government will just look the other way.

The Legal Workforce Act makes E-Verify, an electronic employment verification program, mandatory across the nation. E-Verify is an Internet-based system that compares a worker’s authorization documents to Social Security and Homeland Security records to confirm the person’s eligibility to work.

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