Thread: More companies use immigration database

More companies use immigration database
By SUSAN CARROLL HOUSTON CHRONICLE
May 31, 2009, 11:11PM
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Continental is among the companies that have signed up for E-Verify.

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E-Verify allows registered employers to electronically compare an employee’s personal information against databases maintained by the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security. If the system finds a discrepancy in the records, an employer is sent a notice. The employee can contest the finding.

Source: Department of Homeland Security.

WHO HAS SIGNED UP?

Big Texas Businesses

Continental Airlines (Houston)

AT&T Services, Inc. (San Antonio)

Swift & Company (Cactus)

Southwest Airlines Company (Dallas)

Small Texas Businesses and Nonprofits

The Waffle Iron Cafe (Dallas)

Nitro Volleyball Club (Murphy)

Naegelin’s Bakery, Inc. (New Braunfels)

St. Martin’s Episcopal Church (Houston)

Texas Cities

City of Dallas

City of Trinidad

The City of Tomball

City of Lamesa

Names You May Know

NASA/Johnson Space Center

Houston Rockets

Lakewood Church

Blue Bell Creameries

What do Continental Airlines, the Houston Ballet, the city of Dallas and Sen. John Cornyn all have in common?

They all use the federal government’s E-Verify program to check if their employees are authorized to work in the U.S. legally.

A Department of Homeland Security database of the more than 118,000 public, private and government employers enrolled in E-Verify as of May 1 shows companies big (Tyson Foods) and small (the Ballard Street Café in Wylie) are signed up for the program.

Enrollment has grown exponentially in recent years, with about 1,000 employers signing up each week for the free Web-based program, according to DHS statistics. More than 6,100 Texas employers have enrolled as of May 1, including at least 60 city, county and state agencies.

The city of Houston and Harris County aren’t among them. Lakewood Church and the Houston Rockets, however, use E-Verify.

“Why not do it?â€

Some big business groups have opposed efforts to compel participation in the program, arguing it can be burdensome, particularly for small employers.

Big business groups like the Anti-U.S. Chamber of Commerce have opposed E-Verify because they are Globalists and North American Union supporters, and want their cheap labor at any cost to their country. The Anti-U.S. C of C is NOT concerned that it is "burdensome" to small business, thats BS.

Deleted my duplicate comment submission.

I think we should reward these businesses, somehow. I think I will send them all Thank-you cards, i.e. Thank-you for following our employment laws, for hiring legal U.S. workers, for supporting the legal U.S. workforce, for their pro-America and patriotic actions, etc.