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25 February 2010

Surprise, surprise

The US government's much-touted E-Verify programme for detecting whether workers are authorised to work in the US detects fewer than half of illegal workers, while initially rejecting some legal workers. 

Technology is not a quick fix for the political problem of what to do with 12 million undocumented immigrants in the US.

25 Feb 2010 09:02:27 | Blog, Immigration, United States
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