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During July, both the U.S. House and Senate took measures that would require more employers to use E-Verify, including federal contractors and companies that benefit from federal stimulus spending.

 

The U.S. Senate passed an amendment to the 2010 Department of Homeland Security budget sponsored by Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, which will require federal contractors to use E-Verify, and extend that program for three more years.

 

According to Senator Sessions, this amendment will prevent illegal immigrants from being hired for construction projects funded by the federal stimulus packages. A similar bill was introduced in the House of Representatives.

 

The Society for Human Resource Management or SHRM has long opposed the mandatory use of E-Verify. SHRM argues that a biometric component such as fingerprints or retinal scan needs to be added to E-Verify. The problem is identity theft. Suppose a new employee presents documents for E-Verify as “John Turner”. E-Verify can check that John Turner can legally work in the U.S. However, there is no way for E-Verify to determine if the person presenting those documents is actually John Turner or not. SHRM and New York Senator Charles Schumer argue that E-Verify should not be used until the system can authenticate identity. Opponents claim that such a biometric system would be a violation of privacy.

 

While a number of states require employers to use E-Verify, federal contractors are still in limbo. In 2008, President George W. Bush signed an executive order that would have required federal contractors to implement E-Verify. However, it has been delayed and is currently being challenged in court by SHRM and other employer groups.

 

Nevertheless, many employers continue to voluntarily adopt the E-Verify system. E-Verify compares information provided by the employee’s identity documents – including date of birth, sex, middle name, social security number and other information – with data on file with the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.

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1. Posted by: Brittancus

   An ominous pattern is slowly emerging towards an inevitable power play on pushing another amnesty through Congress. We need to take the many consequences into consideration:
   1 We already had an enforceable 1986 law to stop the illegal immigrant invasion of our country, but it has been intentionally ignored? So–WHY–are they adamant in passing another immigration law?
   2. Most enforcement legislation has been crushed or weakened by many of the politicians we voted into office.
   3. That many of our own government members have pandered to the special interest lobbyists and not voters.
   4 For decades American taxpayers have been supporting, business welfare, who have never contributed to foreign national workers. That emergency hospitals, must attend any foreign person who enters its doors, illegal or legal? ICE should be on standby and demand who that individual is working for and subsequently make the employer pay instead of the taxpayers.
   5. That Democrats are downplaying that the 20 plus illegal immigrant families living here, will not have access to the health care reform package? But are not saying that if a new path to citizenship is enacted, they can automatically get health care?
   6. Should a new immigration reform package is passed, what’s stopping millions more poor, uneducated people storming the border.
   7. Why did Sen. Harry Reid, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the party try to dismantle E-Verify and under fund the border fence, so it was only a single layer instead of two tiers?
   8 That E-Verification is working and working well, so no wonder the US Chamber of Commerce, ACLU, Cato Institute and a large majority of anti-sovereignty groups have been involved in lawsuits, and questionable appeasement by politicians to kill the any enforcement laws.

   GET RAW ANSWERS Contact those in WASHINGTON! NO MORE AMNESTIES. USE ATTRITION TO DEPORT ILLEGAL WORKERS THROUGH E-VERIFY, 287 G, NO MATCH SOCIAL SECURITY LETTERS AND LIGHTENING ICE RAIDS. CONTACT YOUR POLITICIAN AND DEMAND NO WEAKENING OF CURRENT 1986 (IRCA) OTHER SITES FOR INFORMATION IS HERITAGE FOUNDATION, JUDICIAL WATCH.

2. Posted by: Amelia

   Hi Brittancus! Um, thanks for your input!~ Amelia