Worker Screening in Immigration Bill (still under development)

[maddezmom]

Published: May 30, 2007
Filed at 3:06 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's employers say a major problem with system overload is on the way if Congress forces them to prove, electronically, that all their workers are legal.

Currently, 16,727 employers check employees through a system previously known as Basic Pilot and now called the Electronic Employer Verification System. They have checked 1.77 million employees, according to Citizenship and Immigration Services, an agency within the Homeland Security Department.

Current immigration law leaves it to employers to verify that they are hiring legal workers. But that law, passed in 1986, has not been enforced strictly.

Immigration legislation pending in the Senate would require that Social Security numbers, identification and other information supplied by all U.S. workers be run through the electronic system. If the proposal becomes law, employers would have to check all new hires within 18 months of its enactment, and check all other employees within three years.

That could mean millions more employers logging on to a system that, right now, is still under development.

more:http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Immigration-Checking-Workers.html

[DeSwiss]

1. Having the power of who can work and who can't....

...in the hands of the Dept. of Homeland Security?

OH HELL NO!!!

The proposed legislation would require every job applicant in America to have their eligibility to work verified by the DHS, using the error-plagued Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS). EEVS creates a massive government database containing extraordinary amounts of personal information on everyone in America, tied to each individual’s Social Security number. If DHS makes a mistake in determining work eligibility, there will be virtually no way to challenge the error or recover lost wages due to the bill’s prohibitions on judicial review.

http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/gen/29878prs20070525.html?s_src=RSS

[maddezmom]

2. thanks for the link

OT: I like your emoticon :D