Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has introduced a major piece of legislation that would require most employers to use E-Verify within two years of enactment. Large employers, federal, state, and local agencies and federal and state contractors would need to comply within six months. The bill would also make the E-Verify program permanent and reinstate the no-match letter program to help identify the 7 million illegal aliens currently holding non-agriculture jobs.

Rep. Smith is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, which dramatically increases the chances that the bill will come to the House floor for a vote. The Legal Workforce Act (H.R.2164)

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