E-verify is really the only way for a person to check these things. If e-verify thinks their documentation is correct, what other way does an employer have to check them?

about violating the law. But business leaders (and the economy) still needed cheap undocumented workers, so it was never made to be super effective. Money talks, and that would have hit bottom lines.

First of all, anyone paying with a W-2, which the e-verify system is for- is paying at least minimum wage. And yes, minimum wage is too low. But workers where I am, doing actual skilled farm work, are paid well over minimum wage. Most are in the $20-$35/hr range. Documented or not- and how would an employer know if they put the number into the system and E-Verify says their number is good?

Employers are paying the 7.5% into social security (into an account that will never pay out to the recipient) in addition to what the 7.5% collected from the worker's paycheck.

So no, it is not a way to give cover to people paying under the table or less than minimum wage.

My theory is that the Treasury utterly depends upon all this money coming in that will never be paid out. They do not want it fixed.

and the appropriate SS/Medicare deposits, that doesn't mean he's not getting better quality candidates at CHEAPER cost than he can otherwise find. Some of these jobs no one else will even do in this country. That's not a MEME even if you feel otherwise. Not how memes work.

and not easily taught; it takes years to get those skills. And physical stamina. Like every other kind of labor.

I believe that all laborers are underpaid. It is not the undocumented part that makes them underpaid, it is the fact that all physical labor seems to be underpaid in general in this country. The fact that there are so many undocumented laborers has more to do with the reality that getting a green card for labor is utterly messed up. They have all these special visas for "educated" people, as though physical labor is not skilled or requiring of technical chops. And the politicians have every reason to keep it that way, as all these billions of dollars are paid into social security by people who will not be able to draw from it.

Maybe 70% of the ag labor force around where I am is documented; it is law in CA that the employer provides health insurance and pay overtime. This is not the case in most of the other states. Documentation has nothing to do with these obligations.

Paraphrase, actually. The original is:

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." Groucho Marx.