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Senate Immigration Bill Authorizes E-Verify as Surveillance Tracking
- By: David Bier
The Senate immigration bill (S. 744) is immense, so most Americans (and, more importantly, journalists) can be forgiven for missing the part that authorizes…
Raul Labrador’s Sane Immigration Policy Reflects His “Libertarian Streak”
- By: David Bier
Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) has led the effort in the House to fix immigration laws in the most conservative and free market way possible.
House National ID E-Verify Bill: 6 Dangerous Provisions it Includes (And 5 Worker Protections it Excludes)
- By: David Bier
The House of Representatives has passed out of committee a bill (H.R. 1772) to mandate E-Verify electronic employment verification for all employers. This bill…
Op-Eds/Articles
Internet Myth: Ronald Reagan Regretted Legalization
- By: David Bier
Americans often bolster arguments with quotes from Founding Fathers or other U.S. political icons. Unfortunately, this practice often leads to quotes being invented to support…
E-Verify Exposes The Hypocrisy In Republican Free Market Rhetoric
- By: David Bier
After he introduced the Regulatory Accountability Act, Rep. Lamar Smith summarized the GOP attitude on regulation since the Tea Party movement’s influential rise. “Employers across…
E-Verify’s biometric database: A huge step toward a permission-slip society
- By: David Bier
“Maybe we should just brand all the babies.” With this mocking remark, Ronald Reagan dismissed a national ID proposal in 1981. In the 32 years…
Studies
America Still Needs a True Entrepreneurship Visa
- By: David Bier
Immigrant entrepreneurs have long helped drive America’s economy. However, bureaucratic restrictions make coming to America to start a new business extremely difficult, and the current…
E-Verify Mandate Is Costly for Businesses and Workers
- By: David Bier
As Congress revisits immigration reform, one aspect deserves close attention: electronic employment verification. Both the White House’s leaked draft legislation and the Senate’s proposed bill…
The Case for Abolishing the Economic Development Administration
- By: David Bier
EDA investments do little more than shift resources from one area of the country or the economy to another. EDA’s funding should be immediately revoked,…
Citations
Immigration Reform to be Discussed During Obama’s State of the Union Address; Critics Weigh in on Rubio’s E-Verify Work Plan
- By: David Bier
“Using employers as a fourth arm of the government is not the framework that the founders of this country envisioned when they created the Constitution,”…
Daily Caller
Critics Accuse EPA Of Fudging The Math On Its Global Warming Rule
The Daily Caller references a CEI study in relation to EPA's new Clean Power Plan. A 2012 study by the free-market Competitive Enterprise…
Daily Caller
The zero sum rightwing
- By: David Bier
Anti-immigrant voices on the right should make up their minds: Do they believe in free markets — in freedom itself — or not? If not,…
