Employers Still Not Checking Immigration Status

Posted: Jan 21, 2008 08:06 AM EST

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Many Tennessee employers chose not to use a federal data base to check identity and immigration status of their employees.

According to the Homeland Security Department, only 543 of the more than 117,000 registered businesses use E-Verify.

Some of the reasons behind the low numbers are the lack of need and some worry about what to do if businesses should discover illegal workers.

Still other companies chose to contract out employee background searches.
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