E-Verify Hill Briefing: Video & Highlight Reel Now Available

Washington, D.C., November 1, 2011 -- On Monday, October 24, the Competitive Enterprise Institute hosted a Capitol Hill briefing on E-Verify, the controversial electronic employment verification system that is the subject of legislation pending before the U.S. House of Representatives.

In addition to a lively panel discussion about E-Verify, the event featured a vigorous exchange during Q&A in which legislative staffers and policy advocates debated various aspects of the system with the panelists. One panelist, the ACLU’s Chris Calabrese, wrote that the event [2] was “far and away the best [he’d] had the privilege to be part of.”

>> A highlight reel from the event is available on YouTube here [3] (the Q&A begins at 2:40).

>> The full event video is available here. [4]

CEI Immigration Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh [5] moderated the discussion panel. Participants included Chris Calabrese, legislative counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union; Andrew Langer, president of the Institute for Liberty; David Burton, general counsel for the National Small Business Association; and Phillip Wolgin, immigration policy analyst at the Center for American Progress.

>> For more about E-Verify, see Alex Nowrasteh and Ryan Radia's August 4 Orange County Register op-ed, "E-Verify is an Abysmal Failure [6]," and Alex Nowrasteh's September 23 column in The Huffington Post, "E-Verify E-Viscerates Labor Market [7]."