I don’t know about the unemployment benefits. I was speaking about the other benefits you mentioned plus food stamps. The fact is that the border needs to be closed and the benefits need to be stopped in addition to the E-verify for real reform to work. There are just to many people who will hire under the table.
I can confirm for you that illegal aliens do NOT receive food stamps. Nor unemployment benefits. And they STOP receiving earned income tax credits when they quit being able to use identity fraud. So illegal aliens will get fewer benefits, not more, once they lose their jobs because of E-Verify.
So basically, what you did is you attacked a perfectly good program, on a false premise, simply because it was not a different perfectly good program, which it compliments quite nicely, actually. That’s astonishingly counter-productive.