E-Verify

And like people forget, it's easy for these young staffers to forget that.

Everybody's conservative on immigration now, but in the days of the autopsy in 12 and the – you look at one of our former speakers boasted that he had successfully killed E-Verify, mandatory E-Verify in the 96 immigration reform bill.

This was a very contested issue and – you know, like stepping outside of that and reading more widely and knowing, you know, things about history, knowing things about literature, knowing just basic stuff about the world and not being so confined to a single domain, you could kind of step back and see, okay, this Trump Muslim ban thing, this build the wall thing, this is a real thing.

And it's a thing that's going to help drive politics in the Western world.

Or whether we're talking about refund theft and embezzlement like the, you know, again, certain kinds of, of crimes related to the Feeding Our Future scheme, and also maybe Ilhan Omar's sister.

And then e-filing violations, you know, uh, with the E-Verify system kind of glued into that as well.

I know it's kind of a link with the Department of Labor, but like the guy who was bringing a bunch of illegal immigrants in and then claiming that he also needed essentially to collect tax returns on their behalf for illegal immigrants, one of the issues there again for that, that one food processing plant in Omaha.

It's wild.

I noticed your campaign website - I wanna switch to a different topic that I know is important to a lot of voters here in Florida.

It says state laws requiring E-Verify, the federal system that checks whether someone's legally authorized to work in this country, should be opposed.

Why, and would you wanna repeal Florida's requirement for that?

I think the current system works just fine.

I, I think what we're seeing is...

And, and look, I, I'm open to conversation about how we use technology to do E-Verify.

I think it has been so manipulated, the current system has been so manipulated, that it is never enforced against the donor class and the large businesses.

It's actually enforced generally against the small businesses, despite, you know, an exemption of 10 people, 15 people, whatever it might be.

That's 45% of the problem right there.

It also has to do, that's why we need E-Verify and an entry exit tracking system and so forth.

And until that happens, we're not doing anything else.

And then we'll see what the American people are willing to support.

visa system to allow workers to come into the country when our economy demands it in a legal manner.

And both of those bills, by the way, also combat illegal immigration by phasing in the E-Verify program eventually to all employers.

So again, that's the more challenging issue with respect to it hasn't been quite as much progress.

I will say there is a glimmer of hope.