If E-Verify legislation passes the House, it faces an uncertain future in the U.S. Senate.
Opposition from agriculture, normally reliable Republican constituents, has threatened to derail mandatory E-Verify legislation.
With that subsection removed, use of E-Verify data for new federal purposes is almost assured.
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The E-Verify program will even open more jobs to the 22 million people who are waiting.
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The bill also requires all federal, state, and local agencies to run existing employees through E-Verify.
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For all the costs it imposes, employers cannot even rely on E-Verify to prevent unauthorized hires.
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Another factor working against mandatory E-Verify legislation is vocal opposition to the bill from the agriculture industry.
First, if you receive a mandatory E-verify bill only without legalization, are you planning to veto that deal?
They also believe to the extent E-Verify affects illegal immigrants it will push them further into black market employment.
Despite its problems, Congress and the president will consider a national E-Verify mandate in immigration reform proposals this spring.
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In 2008, Intel, the computer chip maker, put its new employees through E-Verify and 12 percent were declared ineligible.
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What will be the level of illegal immigration within 3 years after passing a bill to make using E-Verify mandatory?
R. 2164, a bill that would require all employers in America to use an electric employment verification system called E-Verify.
If Congress expanded E-Verify nationally, it could widen identity theft and create new paperwork for small businesses, some businesses said.
E-Verify, which attempts to screen out unauthorized immigrants by checking employees against federal databases, failed his daughter, a U.S. citizen.
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In fact, the largest raid of unauthorized workers in U.S. history happened in 2006 against an employer that used E-Verify.
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Supporters of E-Verify should concede that making the system mandatory will lead to its use for purposes well beyond immigration enforcement.
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This would be a perfect time to implement a federal policy of every job seeker vetted through the E-Verify computer databases.
The biggest obstacle a mandatory E-Verify bill faces is it lacks support among Democrats, which is a particular problem in the Senate.
R. 2885, legislation to make E-Verify mandatory across the nation, passed the House Judiciary Committee by a party line vote of 22-13.
Effective Jan. 1, 2008, all Arizona employers, not just those working for the government, will have to use E-Verify for new hires.
Even E-Verify isn't designed to flag an illegal using a stolen identity.
The second problem is that E-Verify scares away businesses, investment, and workers.
Its chief tool is E-Verify, an electronic employment eligibility verification system used to weed out unauthorized immigrants when they apply for a job.
The administration is already fining employers in states that mandate E-Verify for technical violations of its regulations, which are costing employers thousands of dollars.
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Hormel and Fremont Beef, the big local meatpackers, already use E-Verify.
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The employment verification piece would be an expansion of an existing system called E-Verify that's currently voluntary for most employers, though it's mandatory in some states.
Without doing that, mandatory E-Verify is likely to be a large expansion of federal authority that moves workers around but does not significantly reduce illegal immigration.
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The E-Verify law, which has been adopted in several states, would if passed oblige employers to check the legal status of prospective workers against a federal database.
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R. 2164, a bill pending in the House Judiciary Committee, would mandate all employers in America use E-Verify, an electronic employment verification system, when hiring new workers.
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