Governor Rick Perry to Implement Mandatory E-Verify Use in Texas

Almost two weeks after President Obama announced an executive order to grant amnesty and work permits to millions of illegal aliens, Governor Rick Perry announced his own executive order to require all Texas state agencies to use E-Verify.

At a news conference Wednesday, Governor Perry said anyone contracting with state agencies would have to use E-Verify as well.

“The E-Verify system has been improved, it’s been streamlined and it currently is the most accurate and efficient way to check a person’s legal work in the United States,” Governor Perry said. “Though any steps taken at the state level must be backed up by a real federal commitment to fixing a broken system.”

Governor Perry also said that the system has changed for the better.

“They’ve improved the program in a number of ways,” he said. “It is now a program that we thinks works, and it’s the reason we ask all these state agencies to use it.”

This announcement marks a shift in position for Governor Perry. In 2010, Governor Perry stated that E-Verify would not “make a hill’s beans of difference” when it come to what’s happening in American.

For more, read The Texas Tribune