Thread: RI: Many companies still not using E-Verify

Many companies still not using E-Verify

Updated: Sep 14, 2008 09:29 AM EDT



PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) - More than half of the vendors doing business with Rhode Island's state government have missed a deadline set by Governor Carcieri to pledge to use a federal database to verify the immigration status of new employees.

Carcieri signed an executive order in March that requires employers doing to business with the state to use the federal database known as E-Verify.

State purchasing agent Lorraine Hynes says about 1,900 of the state's 4,000 vendors abided by Carcieri's directive by last week's deadline.

Carcieri has said not enrolling in the system could result in the cancelation of state contracts, but governor spokeswoman Amy Kempe says no contracts are in danger yet. She says reminder letters and phone calls will be used to get the vendors to enroll in the system.

The Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union is challenging Carcieri's order in court.
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Carcieri has said not enrolling in the system could result in the cancelation of state contracts, but governor spokeswoman Amy Kempe says no contracts are in danger yet

Why aren't they in danger? It has been six months, exactly how long does it take to enroll in the program? Carcieri needs to show that he mean business.

They are verifying I-9s? Oh my

North Carolina are you going to be next on required verification?

Required Verification should have started in 1986.

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Stopping amnesty and in turn an American First Hire Bill needs to be enacted.

All groups fighting: against amnesty, for a clarification of 14th Amendment, and to close the border; if you will take get one minute to think about the end prize. The end prize is jobs. AMERICAN JOBS HAVE NO SAFEGUARD FOR AMERICAN TO BE HIRED FIRST INSTEAD OF LEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

And with NO SAFEGUARD for the American workers; is this the most severe problems Americans will be confronted with currently and in the very near future.

Just this coming week while Americans are struggling to find a job; or feeling the threat of being displaced by a foreign worker Congress is in committee to pass the following:

H.R. 5882 would reach back to 1992 and "recapture" employment-based and family-based visas, potentially adding over 550,000 new green cards.

H.R. 5924 would lift the cap on employment-based visas for nurses and physical therapists until 2011.

H.R. 6020 would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who are family members of armed forces personnel.

H.R.5950, details vast new immigrant detainee health care requirements that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would have to implement in all of their detention centers.

So let's look at what is going on here with each.

H.R. 5882 would reach back to 1992 and "recapture" employment-based and family-based visas, potentially adding over 550,000 new green cards.

Can Americans workers be displaced any further? Yes, they are being replaced and displaced. Just go and asked your local State Unemployment Office if they are processing I-9 for local businesses. What are I-9s? What is the ratio of issued I-9 in a state versus the hiring of Americans?

The I-9 is a form - Department of Justice: Immigration and Naturalization Service produced. The I-9 requires the employer to obtain information such as proof of legal status be using a social security card, green card, or visa. Some companies make copies of proof used for I-9. The I-9 is not sent to be verified by any government agency, they are just filed. ICE may be the only agency that will inquiry into the file of I-9s if ever needed. Once again the I-9 is not sent to be verified by any government agency. Actually, I-9 is filed and most likely will not be touched any government agency ever. (How long has ICE been around?)

So first problem is are the paper fakes; and just look authentic. How are employers to discern between fake and legitimate documents. They cannot. Exactly, an employer's excuse for hiring illegals is "we are not document experts". Next, the employer's says, "we did not want to be sued for racial discrimination" so we just collect the I-9 information and do not question anyone. These employers are free to hire illegal immigrants with no safety net for the American Workers.

Why is there NOT a safety net for the American Workers? The I-9 was put in place after the 1986 amnesty to fool Americans into thinking businesses were only hiring legal workers. And employers only have to file the useless I-9 paper in a file cabinet with NO VERIFYING BY ANYONE. So where is the safe guard for all of America Jobs?

Congress Stop Ignoring the American Workers; Pass an AMERICAN FIRST HIRE LAW. This law could make sure massive legal immigrants and illegals aren't displacing American workers. Yet it seems we are protecting some jobs today by the following H.R. 5924.

H.R. 5924 would lift the cap on employment-based visas for nurses and physical therapists until 2011. Why is this? Why isn't there a cap on I-9s for the average American Workers? And why isn't the government guarding every American's job? Who are we really protecting here? Are nurses and physical therapists more special than other America workers?

And then the H.R. 6020 would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who are family members of armed forces personnel. Why would we do this? First, where these armed forces personnel legal or illegal immigrants when they were allowed to join the United States Military? Something is odd about this. Are illegals to enter our American Military Forces? Further research is needed on this!

Now here is the H.R.5950, which details vast new immigrant detainee healthcare requirements that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would have to implement in all of its detention centers. No, we do not provide health care any further for immigrants than we do for the general prison population.

Please Call your Congress this week and tell them "NO" on all bills above. And demand an "American First Hire Bill" that would give American Workers jobs first over all immigrants. Nurses and the medical communities should not have caps on hiring when other American Jobs do not have caps on them.

Here are toll free numbers for the Capitol Switch Board:
to the US Capitol: 877-851-6437; 866-220-0044; 800-417-7666; 866-340-9281

Call about these and Call often to tell Elected Official how you feel. Elected officials are no better than the American People they represent and serve.