Arizona Senate Passes Tough Immigration Bill That Includes Stricter Rules on E-Verify Usage
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer The Arizona senate has passed a controversial bill that – along with requiring law enforcement officers to question anyone that they have reason to believe might be in the country illegally – would direct employers to keep verification records of employee work eligibility through the government’s E-Verify electronic eligibility verification [...]
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New DHS Initiative Targets E-Verify Misuse and Discrimination by Employers
By Thomas Ahearn, ESR Staff Writer The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced three new initiatives to strengthen the efficiency and accuracy of the E-Verify employment eligibility verification system, including a new agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) that will make it easier to investigate E-Verify misuse and discrimination by participating employers. Under the DHS [...]
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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. government would like employers to use to help control illegal immigration – has failed to catch over half of the number of illegal workers it checks. According to Westat, a research company evaluating the system for the Department of [...]
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6. E-Verify and other government background check requirements
2010 Trends in Screening–Trend Seven: E-Verify and other government background check requirements will grow The government’s efforts to require employers to verify eligibly for employment gathered additional steam when the rules for the use of E-verify for federal contractors finally went into effect in 2009 after a number of false starts. The E-verify system utilizes databases [...]
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