The Key To Effective Immigration Reform - Fact of the Day

Current immigration reform proposals, if adopted, would require every employed American to undergo a “re-verification” process to confirm that he or she is legally authorized to work in the United States. 

This includes you!

• Several immigration reform proposals now before Congress would require all U.S. employers to re-verify the identity and employment eligibility of all current employees.

• Over 149 million Americans are currently employed.

• Over 6 million U.S. employers – large and small – would be adversely impacted by a re-verification mandate.

• If, in addition to having to verify each new employee, all employers must also re-verify every existing worker, the financial and human resources that the government and the private sector must invest into this process will be overwhelming.

• American employers, especially the largest employers, already devote an enormous amount of resources to compliance with employment verification laws.

• New verification requirements should only apply to individuals hired after the enactment and implementation of a new electronic verification system.

The HR Initiative for a Legal Workforce advocates giving employers the tools they need by establishing a new, voluntary electronic employment verification system that would verify identity through the use of state-of-the-art technology, additional background checks and the potential use of biometric enrollment conducted by government certified private vendors. 

Preventing Unauthorized Employment is the Key to Effective Immigration Reform

The Human Resource Initiative for a Legal Workforce (www.legal-workforce.org) represents human resource professionals in thousands of small and large U.S. employers representing every sector of the American economy. The HR Initiative and its members are seeking to improve the current process of employment verification by creating a secure, efficient and reliable system that will ensure a legal workforce and help prevent unauthorized employment, a root cause of illegal immigration.