Current E-Verify User Prepares Alabama Businesses


By: Stephanie Beecken

Last Update: 10:59 pm

Unless an injunction is granted next week, many parts of Alabama's controversial new immigration law become effective September 1. But the E-Verify program employers will have to use is required later but some already using the system say business owners need to be prepared for the change.

It's posted on the office wall; the South Central Human Resource Agency in Fayetteville, Tennessee uses E-Verify. Scarlet Patterson is the HR manager of the company. They have 450 employees. She says each one has been proven eligible to work in the United States by the E-Verify system. They started using E-Verify in 2009.

“It’s kind of like insurance. You do this to make sure you're protecting your organization from the possibility of having illegals working for your organization,â€