IMMIGRATION/JARED KUSHNER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The White House is considering including mandatory nationwide E-Verify in its proposal to reform the legal immigration system, according to three people briefed on the plan. The largely voluntary electronic system allows businesses to check the work authorization of their employees. Making E-Verify mandatory is a high priority for advocates who favor tougher enforcement to discourage illegal immigration — higher for many than building a border wall — and President Donald Trump included it in his immigration platform as a candidate in 2015. But his administration hasn’t emphasized the issue since then. Including E-Verify in the White House proposal may be intended to help win over immigration restrictionist groups like the Center for Immigration Studies. Such groups are closely allied with Trump but have expressed wariness that the administration plan that Jared Kushner presented earlier this week to Republican senators won’t reduce legal immigration. Kushner’s plan would increase skill-focused immigration and reduce family-based immigration, as these advocates favor. But it would admit roughly the same number of legal immigrants each year — a tough sell to the immigration hawks.”
–Ted Hesson and Anita Kumar, “White House may include mandatory E-Verify in immigration proposal,” Politico, May 9, 2019 6:46 pm