E-Verify, the government’s automated immigration status verification tool, is highly effective in confirming a person’s right to work, but few employers use it.

Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those industries and scaring foreign-born workers off the job.

"We can't put the farms out of business," Trump said June 20 in discussing his immigration enforcement efforts.