E-verify would make a difference. Perry is wrong.
The single comment he has made about E-verify was in response to an accusation from Kay Bailey Hutchison in a debate. He was questioning her about Federal border security policies, and she said he was weak because he had not forced the State to require e-verify for State employees. http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2010/feb/01/kay-bailey-hutchison/hutchison-says-texas-state-doesnt-use-e-verify-wee/
I don’t think that would make much difference. How many illegal aliens do you suppose apply for State jobs?
E-verify uses information from the same I-9 forms that the State of Texas and 39 other States use.
How much regulation and interference in businesses and their day-to-day practices do we want? How much of our own data do we want to be in the Fed’s database?
If nothing else, it’s expensive. The regulations that change and grow are what ran me out of private practice. My billing programmers made money from HIPPA and I lost money. The month my business loan was paid off, the company decided they wouldn’t support the new Federally-mandated “compliance programs” on my Linux system, so I’d have to buy a new Windows system and PC’s.