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I don't get people who try to act indignant about 'illegals' taking West Virginia jobs. We are darn near the whitest state in the union with an undocumented immigrant population so low that it doesn't show up with any significance on our census reports. Granted, there are some parts of the state that have immigrant communities, but the truth is, many of them are here legally, following the demand for their labor and should not be scapegoated.
However, that doesn't some people from jumping on the bandwagon and trying to implement bad policy like that of HB 2871. This Bill would have mandated every employer in West Virginia check the lawful status of every employee against a Department of Homeland Security database that is riddled with errors.
E-verify programs, while they look good on paper, are notoriously inaccurate, often times costing naturalized citizens and immigrants here lawfully their jobs because the databases they rely on aren't very accurate.
This one isn't over yet. While the Bill itself didn't make it out of committee, a resolution calling for the legislature to study the issue passed out and will probably be taken up over the interim session.
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