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NPR BLATANTLY LIES ABOUT ARIZONA LAW
 

Despite blatant errors during federally-funded National Public Radio’s coverage of theU.S. Supreme Court’s 5-3 decision to uphold Arizona’s E-Verify law, there has been no correction to the story online.

NumbersUSA found three major lies, among them:

1. NPR’s correspondent started the coverage off by inaccurately describing a different Arizona bill (SB 1070) as requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone “they think on the street is illegally in the country.” 
 
SB 1070 only obligates the officer to investigate immigration status after a “lawful stop, detention or arrest” and SB 1070 was not the legislation being reviewed by the Supreme Court.
 
2. The correspondent stated that E-verify was a “pilot” program that “Congress specifically made voluntary” because of an error rate. 
 
E-verify was originally made voluntary because it was a pilot program and it has remained mostly voluntary because of political games. The percentage of authorized workers run through E-Verify who receive a tentative non-confirmation is 0.3 percent – not quite 20%.
 
3. A representative of the Chamber of Commerce claimed that Sheriff Joe was running “amok” raiding small businesses and not hiring anyone who looks Hispanic. 

The Court specifically noted that the Chamber of Commerce presented a false choice for employers who “enjoy safe harbors from liability when they use the I-9 system and E-Verify.”