The fight in Washington over funding a US-Mexico border wall to combat illegal immigration has had an ironic knock-on effect. According to Business Insider, the ongoing government shutdown has also halted one of the government’s main programs used to vet immigrant workers. E-Verify is meant to check whether the candidates employers want to hire are in the country legally. But a note on the program’s website says the service is “currently unavailable.
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