The very least the government can do toward the enforcement of the immigration laws is to see to it that it is not, directly or indirectly, hiring illegal aliens and then paying them with government money.
The latest report from the Government Accountability Office suggests that three departments of the government, notably the Department of Homeland Security, are doing a terrible job along these lines.
These hires are much more likely to happen with government contractors than with government agencies, but they should not happen at all.
The government has a useful tool to prevent illegal hires.
GAO contacted a number of contracting officers in the various departments; of the eight in the Department of Defense, six reported that they did not monitor contractor compliance, and two others said that the usual E-Verify clause was not in their contracts.
The figure records the government's work with two different E-Verify problems, the more frequent "Non-use" of the program, and the less frequent "Misuse" of the system, in which employers sought to compromise it.
Clearly the current administration is not very worried about the hiring of illegal aliens on government contracts.
https://cis.org/North/GAO-Reports-Much-Lack-Enforcement-EVerify
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