MICKEY KAUS: E-Verify As A Wedge Issue? “E-Verify seems like a great wedge issue: a popular and sensible policy that puts Obama in a richly-deserved tough spot, forcing him to choose between pleasing voters generally and continuing his desperate Hispandering initiative. … Bonus: It would especially appeal to the non-trivial number of African Americans who believe, with some justification, that illegal immigrants are taking jobs unskilled African Americans used to get.”