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The new congressional majority says it wants to grow the economy and reduce the size of government. But the “Legal Workforce Act,” introduced this week by House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith, seems to confuse those goals. By requiring all employers to use E-Verify, the bill grows the government and adds tens of billions to the burden already shouldered by taxpayers. At the same time, it shrinks our economy, decimates at least one industry, and destroys millions of jobs.

All that, and the program it mandates doesn’t even work half the time.

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