E-Verify: The next ID dilemma
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Here’s another example of how states are getting caught up in the immigration issue, even though, as Gov. Eliot Spitzer decided last week, “It’s too complex and too macro a challenge to be solved by a patchwork of state policies.”
Arizona is planning to require employers, as of January, to check their workers’ immigration status through a federal database called E-Verify. Civil rights and business groups argue that the system is faulty and that employers will wind up discriminating against all immigrants, legal or not. E-Verify is voluntary and sparsely used across the country, but Arizona is making it mandatory. Illinois has gone in the opposite direction, barring employers from using it. The state is being sued by Homeland Security as a result.
Homeland Security has said that federal agencies would be required to use E-Verify to patrol against unauthorized workers. But are they? The Swamp reports that these agencies aren’t following through.
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This is a good thing. I’m glad Homeland security is going
to sue illinois. This is no different than violating peoples rights with DWI check points and drug testing in the work place and they seem to get away with doing that.
The E-verify system must be put in place state by state or nationially via the SAVE Act. Too many employers are simply addicted to cheap illegal aliens for labor. They can “unknowingly” them today. The E-verify system takes away their crutch.
These companies don’t care that they hire illegal aliens, instead of legal residents. They only care about their profits.
Contact your elected reps. and ask them to co-sponsor the Save Act.