Dobbs: Well, we know that business people all across the country, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce certainly representing as it does big business, I'm sure that they want to encourage all employers to use E-Verify, because it's 99.5 percent effective and would stop so much of our illegal immigration crisis in this country. I can't imagine that McDonald's would hesitate now, particularly that they have run across this problem to demand that franchise owners use E- Verify and as a matter of policy, for example like AMC Theaters make certain of the residency and immigration status of their employees.
Wian: You would think so, Lou, but all along, the business lobby, the courts, amnesty advocates, they're the ones who have been standing up and blocking these efforts by the Department of Homeland Security modest though that they may be at this time to actually enforce the law and hold employers accountable for knowingly and egregiously hiring illegal aliens and even going so far as in this case to help them get phony documents. [...]
Dobbs: The fast food industry certainly backs so-called comprehensive immigration reform, which would have given amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. McDonald's is among the companies backing that plan and it's not certainly the only fast food chain supporting amnesty, the quote, "Essential Worker Immigration Coalition", end quote, is a group of trade associations strongly supporting comprehensive immigration reform legislation.
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