Texas Talks Tough on Immigration -- But Won't Force Most Private Companies to Check Employment Authorization

Friday, June 06, 2025

Texas' conservative Legislature has again and again refused to mandate that most private businesses use E-Verify. Experts say that Republican resistance is rooted in how the system could impact the state's labor supply and economy.

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Eh, I dont think I agree with this.

If you want to REALLY stop illegal immigration, go after the employers.

#1 | Posted by boaz at 2025-06-06 07:39 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

If you want to REALLY stop illegal immigration, go after the employers.

#1 | Posted by boaz

The point is that they obviously DON'T REALLY want to stop it.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-06 08:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Taco moment.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-06 08:59 AM | Reply

"Eh, I dont think I agree with this."

You've been had, again.

Hey, at least you're starting to realize it. Some of you people will never figure it out.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-06 09:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

Which begs the question... If they don't REALLY want to stop illegal immigration, what is the point of all the rhetoric?

It has always seemed to me like the purpose was to whip up racist votes while while creating an exploitable underclass. But if you have another theory that fits the facts then I would love to hear it.

#5 | Posted by gtbritishskull at 2025-06-06 09:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#5 | Posted by gtbritishskull

BINGO

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-06 09:20 AM | Reply

-If they don't REALLY want to stop illegal immigration, what is the point of all the rhetoric?

You answered your question just fine. It's about votes. It's about paranoia.

But what we can't seem to run out of is steady supply of voters who are clueless on how the world really works.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2025-06-06 09:37 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Nobody really wants to stop immigration, including a certain amount of illegal immigration. We have some very crucial industries that rely heavily on it and nobody has a better solution and it's been this way for 50 years.
But what we can't seem to run out of is steady supply of voters who are clueless on how the world really works.

Posted by eberly at 2025-06-06 09:37 AM | Reply

I TOLD YOU SO

#8 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-06 09:53 AM | Reply

If you want to REALLY stop illegal immigration, go after the employers.
#1 | Posted by boaz

You aren't going to. This country's economy would crater if you did that.

#9 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-06 10:04 AM | Reply

Eh, I dont think I agree with this.
If you want to REALLY stop illegal immigration, go after the employers.

#1 | Posted by boaz

LOL some of us have been saying this for years.

Yet people like you have voted for politicians like what Texas has for those very same years, even as you b*&^*ed about immigration the entire time.

Will you ever realize you're a rube being taken advantage of?

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-06 10:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If they don't REALLY want to stop illegal immigration, what is the point of all the rhetoric?

I think we all know what the point is.

Boaz demonstrates it perfectly.

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-06 10:22 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

" If you want to REALLY stop illegal immigration, go after the employers."

The fact the workers were targeted, while the hirers were ignored, should tell you everything you need to know.

The headlines shouldn't have been "100 illegals found working on FSU Housing Project", but rather:

"Hirer of Scores of Illegals Arrested and Jailed."

#12 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-06-06 12:27 PM | Reply

If you want to REALLY stop illegal immigration, go after the employers.
#1 | Posted by boaz

I hope everyone likes seeing this quote because it's getting bronzed.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-06 12:33 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

All these roundup raids by ICE will NEVER happen in Tejas or Okiehomie. Why not? A large portion of the employment base in the service and construction business sectors will instantly disappear. No one wants to see their exploited, undocumented work force of landscapers, roofers, carpet layers, bussers, dishwashers and room attendants run off. There are not any white folks around to take those jobs. Such raids in Blue or Purple states will continue for show, but NEVER in palces where the undocumented are necessary for functioning economies...

#14 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-06 05:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Corps and owners invest in politicians for a reason.
It's your basic "beck and call," as in "bought and paid for."
Land of the free, home of the brave.

#15 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-06-07 06:30 AM | Reply

Texas Talks Tough on Immigration -- But Won't Force Most Private Companies to Check Employment Authorization

Another example of why so many come to the U.S. via whatever means; no one perp walks employers who hire undocumented workers.

#16 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-06-07 02:33 PM | Reply

MAGA: We want illegals workers gone!

Again MAGA: Wait! Not MY workers!

There was a comprehensive and bipartisan immigration bill on the table last year. Republicans refused to forward it, just to help Trump get elected. That's the truth everyone needs to remember.

#17 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-06-07 02:36 PM | Reply