Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

That’s a bingo!

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As the pushing and shoving, backand-forth, hair-pulling and spitting between the president and Congress continues—and it will continue, even if the border wall is built tomorrow—it is comforting to know that it doesn’t have to be this way. And even when it comes to illegal immigratio­n and the solutions to, there are agreements.

Years back, we remember Smilin’ Joe Biden pushing the E-Verify system, in which employers could complete a seconds-long Internet search to make sure an employee is legal. Also, years ago, the opposite of Smilin’ Anything, former Speaker John Boehner, that knight of the sad countenanc­e, touted E-Verify too. It has support on both sides of the political aisle. And it already exists.

The only problem with the thing is that it’s optional in most states. And, according to the paper, “agricultur­al leaders” oppose it because it would make food more expensive.

Well, we’re going to have to make adjustment­s if we want a real immigratio­n system, instead of the non-system we have now. Arkansas’ two United States senators acknowledg­ed as much last week when they both came out in favor of E-Verify.

Let’s make E-Verify mandatory. Combine it with a wall, and the immigratio­n system—that’s a bingo!—is fixed.

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