Thread: Utah businesses are ignoring E-verify law

Well, if they didn't ignore it, then they would have to fire all the thousands of illegals they hire. Now if there was a $10,000 fine for ignoring the law...

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Washington • Thousands of Utah companies may be breaking state law by hiring employees without using a federal work status verification program, but officials aren’t concerned and there’s no rush for businesses to comply because they face no penalties.

Starting July 1, companies in Utah with more than 15 employees were required to check the legal status of new workers, though only about 3,000 companies in the state were doing so as of Friday, 10 days after the law took effect, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. That’s less than a third of businesses in the state that should be complying with the law, based on numbers supplied by state Workforce Services.

Gov. Gary Herbert, on a trip to Washington this week, said Monday he’s not surprised by the few signups, though he agreed that technically any of the thousands of companies in that category could be violating the law if they hired any employees in the state without signing up for the federal program to check work status.

“Well, certainly it’s not OK,â€

It will work even if Utah does not do more if tort lawyers start suing them for non compliance

We have the same problem here in GA. E-verify is only mandated for public money contracts, but there are no teeth in the bill - no audits, no penalties. The public monied contractors hired subs, who hired subs, and there was no accountability to the contractors for the subs they hired.

The laws without teeth were not without design - meant to appease those of us who live and pay for the labor force through free healthcare, schooling and public benefits, yet still provide the campaign contributors with their cheap slave labor. Its a shell game, and we keep losing.