I’m sorry you can’t see the difference between a voluntary and a mandatory use of this database to determine whether or not someone can earn their daily bread.
Of course, anyone with a brain has known all along that their intent in establishing the voluntary database was to turn it into a mandatory one.
The answer when the statist camel’s nose is in the tent is not to resign yourself to living with the camel, the answer is to cut off the camel’s nose.
An America in which a citizen has to get permission from the government to work is no longer America. It’s the Soviet Union.
Pay attention: There is no E-Verify database. It uses databases that existed prior to any E-verify program: I-9, tax, SS.