Report Finds E-Verify Fails to Catch Over Half of Illegal Workers Committing Identity Theft and Fraud

A research company has found that E-Verify – the employment eligibility verification system that the U. S. regime would like employers to use to help control illegal colonization – has failed to catch over half of the number of illegal staff it checks.

According to Westat, a research company evaluating the system for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), E-Verify wrongly cleared illegal staff 54 percent of the time after failing to detect identity theft and fraud. While the Westat report indicated E-Verify correctly identified legal staff 93 percent of the time, previous studies did not reveal how many illegal staff fooled the E-Verify system with identity theft and fraud.

Westat’s report – concluded in December 2009 using data from the previous year – also confirmed in a summary that E-Verify, while not perfect in detecting identity theft and fraud, was “much extra effective” than the I-9 paper forms used by most employers. The results come at a time when President Obama’s administration has made cracking down on U.S. employers who hire illegal staff a central part of its colonization enforcement policy.

But, just using E-Verify gives an employer a powerful defense in the event that a worker is later found to have committed spot theft. E-Verify is a emancipated, Internet-based system operated by DHS in partnership with the Social Security Administration (SSA), and allows participating employers to electronically verify their employees’ employment authorization. Employers run a prospective employee’s in rank against DHS and SSA databases to check whether that worker is with permission permitted to work in the United States. Results are returned online within seconds.

Despite any drawbacks, the E-Verify employment eligibility verification system remains a powerful tool for employers to verify the employment authorization of employees. E-Verify virtually eliminates SSA mismatch letters, improves the accuracy of wage and tax reporting, protects jobs for authorized staff, and helps U.S. employers maintain a legal workforce. Approximately 184,000 U.S. employers currently use E-Verify.

E-Verify/I-9 form compliance is merely one position of a thorough and comprehensive hiring approach that can help employers uncover identity theft and fraud committed by jobseekers by using background checks and employment verifications. Employment Screening Resources (ESR) is an authorized E-Verify Designated Agent. For extra in rank about E-Verify, please visit http://www.esrcheck.com/formi9.php

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100225/ap_on_hi_te/us_immigration_e_verify