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    • Business Cite a Catch-22 After Miss. Immigration Raid
      The Washington Post  08/27/2008
      The arrests this week of nearly 600 immigrant workers at a manufacturing plant in Laurel, Miss., are fueling a national debate over a federal system to check new hires' work documents, a program whose expansion the Bush administration has made a cornerstone of its fight against illegal immigration.
    • SHRM Challenges E-Verify Rules for Federal Contractors
      SHRM Online  08/25/2008
      Comments submitted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) on a proposal that would require federal contractors to use the government’s electronic employment verification system question whether the Bush administration has the authority to impose such a mandate.
    • Contractors Oppose Rule on Employee Citizenship Verification
      Federal Times  08/18/2008
      Contractors are opposing a government plan that would require them to verify the immigration status of their employees.
    • Hiring a Legal Workforce: Does the E-Verify Program Work?
      The Iowa Independent  08/14/2008
      Two out of the three test balloons floated 11 years ago by the Clinton Administration and Congress as possible ways to lessen the nation’s illegal immigration problem popped quickly. A third, known since 2007 as E-Verify, continues to float around the nation. While both private and government organizations have been critical of the tool, new voices have begun to emerge to question not only the effectiveness but the politics behind its continuance.
    • Critics: E-Verify Proposal Flouts Law
      HS Today  08/12/2008
      The Bush administration is deliberately attempting to thwart congressional will that the E-Verify employment verification system remain voluntary for all US employers with a proposed regulation that would compel federal contractors to use the system, according to comments submitted Monday by a workforce coalition advocating a private sector system.
    • Groups Urge House Leaders to Improve E-Verify System
      CongressDaily  07/18/2008
      Nearly a dozen corporate and nonprofit organizations sent House leaders a letter Wednesday seeking congressional action to overhaul an electronic system that companies can use to verify the legal status of their workers.
    • Cindy Butler: R.I. Dodges Bullet of E-Verify
      The Providence Journal  06/28/2008
      Rhode Island recently dodged a bullet when controversial legislation that would have required all state employers to use E-Verify — the federal government’s much criticized citizenship-verification system — was allowed to die in the state Senate.
    • NEVA to the Rescue
      The Washington Times  06/22/2008
      There is no lack of opinion among members of Congress on how to address illegal immigration. The debate is as heated and divisive as any in recent years.
    • Don’t Tie Student Employment Program to E-Verify
      The Hill  05/07/2008
      If nothing else, the Department of Homeland Security is persistent — even when it comes to forcing a flawed and outdated program upon U.S. employers.
    • R.I. Employers Face Possible Mandate on E-Verify
      Providence Business News  04/21/2008
      Human-resources advocate Cindy Butler says she supports creating a federal electronic employment-verification system to curtail illegal immigration, so long as it’s accurate and reliable.
    • Employers Fret Over Work ID Mandate
      Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)  03/02/2008
      Tim Hartigan wanted to make sure he wasn't hiring illegal workers at his St. Paul foundry. So he signed up for an electronic identity-check system that has become Minnesota's first major attempt to stop illegal immigration at its magnet: the workplace. Click here to view the full article.
    • Legislation to Create New Mandatory Employee Verification Process Introduced
      Daily Labor Report  02/29/2008
      Legislation (H.R. 5515) that would create a new mandatory national employee verification process for U.S. citizens and immigrants to replace the government's E-Verify program was introduced by four Republican representatives Feb. 28.
    • Kansas Urged to Rethink Immigration Proposals
      Lawrence Journal-World & News (Topeka, KS)  01/27/2008
      Republicans and Democrats in the Kansas Legislature say the best way to take a bite out of illegal immigration is to punish employers who hire workers who are not supposed to be here.
    • Arizona Employers Focusing on Costs, Effects of New Law
      The Arizona Republic  12/30/2007
      Like many managers in Arizona, Debra Beal knows a far-reaching crackdown on businesses that employ illegal immigrants is at hand. And like thousands across the state, the restaurant manager has yet to make drastic changes at her business.
    • Absent Federal Reform, States Increasingly Tackling Immigration
      The Dallas Morning News  11/30/2007
      Immigration-related legislation tripled in state legislatures this year, reflecting growing worry and rancor over enforcement and assimilation of the foreign-born, according to a new report released Thursday by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
    • Worker Status Checks’ Errors Called ‘Severe’
      The Los Angeles Times  11/28/2007
      Possible discrimination against foreign-born employees remains a concern for an electronic verification system that ultimately catches a tiny fraction of workers in the United States illegally, immigration officials were told Tuesday.
    • Report: E-Verify Database Fails Standard Test
      Washington Technology  11/26/2007
      The E-Verify program uses a database that does not meet accuracy standards set by Congress, according to a new report from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
    • Planned Worker ID Called Vulnerable/Effort to Control Immigration Could Boost Identity Theft
      The San Francisco Chronicle  06/25/2007
      The linchpin of all new proposals to control illegal immigration, including a Senate bill up for reconsideration this week, is an electronic employer verification system to shut off the job magnet that has attracted millions of illegal workers to the United States.
    • Employers Oppose Hiring Provisions in Immigration Bill
      The Washington Post   06/03/2007
      As Congress reconvenes this week, businesses and their lobbyists are gearing up to fight a series of proposed changes to immigration law that they say will complicate hiring.
    • The Divided States of America; States and Municipalities are Responding in Wildly Different Ways to Undocumented Workers
      BusinessWeek  04/16/2007
      Gustavo Torres is a popular guy these days. As he walks into the storefront worker center he runs, the Hispanic men and women who fill the waiting room wave and call out "buenos días." Torres' nonprofit has been hired by Montgomery County, Md., to provide employment services to these immigrants,about 60% of whom are in the country illegally.
    • Illegal Worker, Troubled Citizen and Stolen Name
      The New York Times  03/22/2007
      MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa - The two women named Violeta Blanco have never met. But for a long time they shared not only a name, but the same birth date and the same Social Security number.
    • Immigration: High-Tech Methods, New Rules, Needed For Employment Verification, HR Groups Say
      Bureau of National Affairs  03/08/2007
      An effective state-of-the-art electronic system for verifying the work authorizations of new employees is essential for any effort at immigration reform and stemming the tide of illegal immigration, a coalition of human resource management groups said March 7 in Washington, D.C.
    • New HR Coalition Seeks Reliable Employment Verification System
      SHRM Online  03/07/2007
      With more than 30 immigration-related bills circulating in Congress, a new coalition of HR groups—including the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)—is urging lawmakers to create an employment verification system that does not require employers to become enforcement arms of the government.