States join immigrant worker crackdown with E-Verify bills

STATE E-VERIFY MANDATES for businesses in legislation across the country threaten to intensify scrutiny on employers’ immigrant hiring, while making it tougher for some industries to find enough workers. The renewed federal push to restrict immigration under the second Trump administration has revived states’ efforts to push or toughen mandates that companies.

• Lawmakers in more than a dozen states from Florida to Oregon have considered bills this year that would require companies to use the federal E-Verify system to confirm job candidates are authorized to work in the US. Some bills propose new mandates while others expand existing requirements and ...