Source:  Marc Caputo, THE MIAMI HERALD, 8/4/11
Q: On immigration, how about requiring private-employers to use the E-Verify system. Should there be that mandate?

Pawlenty: 'The system we have now is a 1950s paper-based system that is susceptible to fraud. So in the year 2011, in the world of iPads and instant everything, it’s reasonable to have a more modern, more accurate, less burdensome verification system.... It’s incumbent on the federal government to have a system that employers can use that is quick, fair, accurate, non-burdensome that verifies somebody’s eligibility for employment or public benefits…We should say to private employers, if you knowingly hire illegal immigrants, there’s going to be a consequence. I underline the word 'knowingly.’ And you make available a system like E-Verify. I don’t know that you need to require them to use it.'

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