When you do business on the taxpayer dime, you ought to be willing to prove you are using the money in legal ways. That’s not a difficult concept. It’s why President George W. Bush was right to issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to use the E-Verify electronic database to help them determine if potential employees are legal. And it’s one of many good reasons why one of the first things the Senate should do when it finally returns from its ill-advised August recess is to pass a law extending that database for another five years.
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