Thread: Bush Orders Contractors to Check Employees Legal Status!!!

From DHS:
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3. The final myth is that E-Verify does nothing about identity theft, so the system is easy to beat. Not true. The criticism might hold water if E-Verify did nothing but check for mismatched names and SSNs. But E-Verify does more than that. We are already implementing measures that make identity theft far more difficult. The system rejects the SSNs of workers who have died. And we are increasingly able to display the photo that should be on identity cards presented by workers. This “photo toolâ€

[b]Debunking the “E-Verify Error Rateâ€

********Making E-Verify Permanent (E-Verify is presently set to expire in November, 200********
We cannot allow that to happen!!!
Senator Grassley (IOwa) has just introduced a bill to reauthorize E-Verify....we need to back it!!
S. 3093 Electronic Employment Verification Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Introduced in Senate)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c ... 110QYsFM7::
U.S. Sen. Grassley (Iowa) : Works to Give Employers a Better Tool to Verify Work Eligibility of Employees
http://www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=128035
In the above article, summarizing the bill, it states: Gives employers the option to verify the status of all employees, not just new hires.
Verifying the status of all employees, should not be an option, it should be mandatory. We should lobby to make verification of all employees mandatory!!