Thread: MN: Dayton ends state's use of E-Verify

Dayton ends state's use of E-Verify

by Sasha Aslanian, Minnesota Public Radio
April 4, 2011


St. Paul, Minn. — Gov. Mark Dayton has dropped a controversial check of work eligibility for state employees and large vendors doing business with the state.

In 2008, Gov. Tim Pawlenty ordered the names of all new hires be run through a Department of Homeland Security database. The program known as E-Verify checks work eligibility in the United States. Vendors doing more than $50,000 worth of business with the state were also affected.

A Dayton administration memo said while the state will continue to comply with federal immigration laws in its hiring, "the E-Verify process has been inefficient and yielded negligible results." In 2009, the state severed its contract with a Texas company hired to do the E-Verify checks after private employee data was found online.

A Republican bill at the Capitol would renew the E-Verify requirement.

Dayton also let lapse Pawlenty directives requiring state law enforcement to cooperate with federal authorities to enforce immigration laws.

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Of course it was yielding negligible results the immigration violators were being scared away.

he needs phone calls tomorrow morning.
stupid governor

Originally Posted by AmericanTreeFarmer

Of course it was yielding negligible results the immigration violators were being scared away.

Welcome to ALIPAC ATF Let's keep this fight going! NO AMNESTY!

What a shame. Bad Governor, Bad, Bad, Bad. Shame on you.

Well, at least it is nice to hear that Pawlenty did some things right in Minn., especially since he may be one of our presidential candidates.