Howard Industries

Lawyer: E-Verify encourages identity theft

Citing the immigration raids on Marshalltown’s Swift & Co. and Mississippi’s Howard Industries as evidence, Eric Bord, a partner in the Washington, D.C.-based Morgan Lewis law firm, said that the government-run E-Verify program has the “perverse effect of encouraging identity theft.”

E-Verify faces added scrutiny in the wake of Mississippi raid

The names and faces have changed, but the stories coming out of Mississippi in the wake of the raid will not sound new to Iowans who have been following the news in relation to Postville.