The availability of illegal jobs in the U.S. is what attracts most illegal immigrants. The key to ending most illegal immigration is to take away the jobs magnet.

How can we keep jobs legal?

E-Verify, a 12-year-old federal on-line program, enables businesses to quickly verify the work eligibility of newly hired employees. Combined with a simple companion program to weed out identity theft, E-Verify would put most jobs out of reach of illegal workers - if the federal government makes the program mandatory for all businesses.

What are the benefits of E-Verify?

• Law-abiding businesses would no longer be threatened by competitors who hire illegal workers
• 8 million American workers who are looking but can't find a job would have access to the 6-9 million service, construction and manufacturing jobs now held by illegal workers
• Taxpayers would no longer have to subsidize so many non-working Americans

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Two national commissions — one bi-partisan, the other President Clinton's — concluded that immigration numbers must be cut in order to allow the United States to meet its economic justice and environmental sustainability goals.

How do we make smarter decisions?

We need to eliminate non-essential immigration categories that are driving the biggest population explosion in U.S. history. New "Chain Migration" categories for extended adult family members of recent immigrants were added a few decades ago. They are the primary reason immigration numbers quadrupled. The categories can be dropped without affecting the nuclear family.

How will this benefit the U.S.?

• Gives communities breathing space to catch up with infrastructure demand
• Reduces greatly the destruction of natural habitat and farmland
• Opens jobs and raises wages for vulnerable Americans

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