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Laurie Roberts' Columns & Blog
Employers plot to overwhelm E-Verify
Nov 27, 2007

Employment lawyers are advising the business community to wait until the last two weeks of the year to sign up for E-Verify, in hopes of crashing the system set up to at least try to determine if the people they're hiring are legally entitled to work here.

"If you have 100,000 people signing up in December, how are they going to handle it?" asked attorney Julie Pace, who represents the business groups suing the state to get the new employer sanctions law thrown out.

For years, the business community successfully lobbied to kill any attempt to hold Arizona employers accountable for who they hire. And it worked, until last year when the public was finally so fed up that the Legislature had to act.

Businesses contend that the law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, is unconstitutional, that it's impossible for them to know for sure that the people they're hiring are here legally. They're right. E-Verify won't catch 100 percent of those who are here illegally, those who have stolen someone else's identity, for instance. But it will catch plenty of people and if the system does clear someone it shouldn't have cleared, the employers will likely not be in trouble because they'll have the documents to show that they at least tried to follow the law and do the right thing.

That is, if they're really interested in following the law and doing the right thing....

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