E-Verify. Hire Legal Workers. Stop Illegal Immigration.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new campaign with a message to business owners: “You know you’re not supposed to hire illegal aliens. We’re enforcing the law across the board — all businesses in all industries.”

Great message. We say it all the time: You can’t secure the border without securing the workplace. Illegal WORK is the reason people illegally immigrate and illegally STAY.

Want illegal workers to return home? Take the jobs away.

Want deported illegal workers to not come back? Take the jobs away.

When was the last time you witnessed an Administration produce a message like this?

E-Verify. Hire Legal Workers. Stop Illegal Immigration.

ICE’s campaign urges employers to participate in the IMAGE program, a partnership between businesses and the federal government “through which employers can achieve a lawful workforce through self-policing of their hiring practices.”

The IMAGE program is VOLUNTARY. In order to convince millions of illegal workers to return to their home countries, however, E-Verify must be made MANDATORY. We have Great Immigration Solution Bills for that: H.R. 251 in the House; S. 1151 in the Senate. Our team is walking the halls of Congress to build support for those bills, but our influence is due entirely to YOU. Congress works for you. You will continue to see action opportunities from NumbersUSA to pass these bills, secure the workplace, and open up millions of jobs to American workers.