Thread: NC Senator Walter Dalton; E-mail of E-Verify; My Reply.

NC Senator Walter Dalton E-Mail Below:

I checked with the Labor Section of the NC Attorney General's office regarding this matter. Here is the official US government site to the US Citizenship
and Immigration Services site which discusses I-9 forms and e-verify:

[quote:3iyzjfmu]http://tinyurl.com/6jf63j
About Form I-9 and E-Verify

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) seeks to control illegal immigration by eliminating employment opportunity as an incentive for unauthorized persons to come to the United States, by prohibiting the hiring or continued employment of aliens whom employers know are unauthorized to work in the United States. To comply with the law, all U.S. employers must verify the employment eligibility and identity of all employees hired to work in the United States after November 6, 1986 by completing Employment Eligibility Verification forms (Forms I-9) for all employees, including U.S. citizens. Employers who hire or continue to employ individuals knowing that they are not authorized to be employed in the United States may face civil and criminal penalties.

(MY WORDS: VERIFYING IS NOT DONE; COLLECTION OF INFORMATION -YES. SO WHY DOESN'T THE GOVERNMENT MAKE IT MANDATORY TO E-VERIFY?)

The links on this page provide specific information on the Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, and E-Verify, the electronic employment eligibility verification program administered by USCIS. If you have specific questions concerning the Form I-9 or E-Verify, please call the USCIS Verification Division at 1-888-464-4218.

The site contained in the your email is a non-government site and may not be a reliable source of information. All NC employers (including the State) are required to comply with requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Enforcement of these provisions is handled on the federal level.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to call or email.

Thank you,

Barbara O'Sullivan, Legislative Assistant

Office of Senator Walter Dalton[/quote:3iyzjfmu]
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My Reply:
RE: Why is this being allowed?
To: "Barbara O'Sullivan (Sen. Dalton)" <daltonla@ncleg.net>
Dear Senator Dalton:

I don't think you understand. North Carolina State Unemployment Offices are doing I-9s for private employers. And I got it from the manager of my local NC Unemployment Office that he doesn't have to E-Verify I-9s (except for agricultural workers.) In my opinion the State of North Carolina is in dangerous territory to cause harm and discriminate against North Carolina LEGAL United States Citizens.

And I understand fully and am grateful that NC is trying to do a little something when it comes to the undocumented immigrants, fraud, and identity theft in the State by checking it's OWN new hires. But everyone doesn't work for the state.

E-Verify of the I-9 forms and all immigrants is necessary to ensure that North Carolina Legal Citizens have jobs. Currently, State new hires are E-Verify; and about seven location in the state are using 287g Program (police verifying program through ICE). I call what is happening in North Carolina a patchwork approach, and I and many others are so very dissatisfied with lack of interest to correct the immigration problems within our state.

I know what I know and I know I-9's have been used to fool all Americans into thinking that the government was checking for undocumented immigrant. When in fact no one has been verifying what the employers and business collected on immigrants since 1986. (An employer writing information onto an I-9 is not checking or verifying the legal resident status of an immigrant to work in America or North Carolina.)

I hope you will check with several North Carolina State Unemployment Offices to find out for yourself that no one is checking/verifying I-9s for the legal resident status of new hires for businesses or employer using the Unemployment Offices to hire people. North Carolina Legal Citizens should not be discriminated against by not obtaining a job in which a hiring of an immigrants with no legal resident status to work in North Carolina.

What you are failing to understand is that NC has started E-Verifying it's new hires. But the State is not requiring all employers to E-Verify.

And are you wanting to miss the point that the local, state, and federal are responsible when it comes to immigration problems. Arizona and Oklahoma require every employer to E-Verify. E-Verify is free from what I understand, so what is North Carolina's holdup on requiring E-Verify by all employers.

Is North Carolina wanting to only use the 287g Program to catch criminals? If you entered the United States illegally and you are in North Carolina, you are an undocumented immigrant criminal. You are not entitled to the Right of Privacy if you do not have legal resident status to be in America.

The facts before you that No One has been checking the legal resident status of undocumented workers in North Carolina, I hope bothers you some. Local and State Governments must protect the legal citizens from harm, and NC has not protected it's legal citizens and you know it since Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA) .

Concerned by the harm caused to NC Citizens,
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Related links: http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/m-274.pdf

Notice how the Handbook uses the word "verify" by just looking at documents. When the employer fills out an I-9 form this is not verifying legal resident status of an immigrant without using E-Verify.

Employers are only collecting information without E-Verifying in North Carolina.

http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/m-274.pdf Below:

Part Six Employers can register online for E-Verify at
E-Verify: The Web-based Verification Companion
to the Form I-9
Since verification of the employment eligibility of new hires
became law in 1986, the Form I-9 has been the foundation of
the verification process. To improve the accuracy and integrity
of this process, USCIS operates an electronic employment
eligibility verification system called E-Verify.
E-Verify provides an automated link to federal databases to
help employers determine the employment eligibility of new
hires. E-Verify is free to employers and is available in all 50
states, as well as U.S. territories except for American Samoa
and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Employers who participate in the E-Verify Program complete
the Employment Eligibility Verification Form (Form I-9) for
each newly hired employee as is required of all employers in
the United States. E-Verify employers may accept any
document or combination of documents acceptable on the
Form I-9, but if the employee chooses to present a List B and
C combination, the List B (identity only) document must have
a photograph.
After completing the Form I-9 for a new employee, E-Verify
employers must submit an electronic query that includes
information from Sections 1 and 2 of the Form I-9. After
submitting the query, the employer will receive an automated
response from the E-Verify system regarding the employment
eligibility of the individual. In some cases, E-Verify will
provide a response indicating a tentative nonconfirmation of
the employee’s employment eligibility. This does not mean
that the employee is necessarily unauthorized to work in the
United States. Rather, it means that the system is unable to
instantaneously confirm that employee’s eligibility to work. In
the case of a tentative nonconfirmation, the employer and
employee must both take steps specified by E-Verify in an
effort to resolve the status of the query.
Employers are also required to follow certain procedures when
using E-Verify that were designed to protect employees from
unfair employment actions. Employers may not verify
selectively and must verify all new hires, both U.S. citizens
and non-citizens. Employers may not prescreen applicants for
employment; check employees hired before the company
became a participant in E-Verify; or reverify employees who
have temporary work authorization. Employers may not
terminate or take other adverse action against employees
based on a tentative nonconfirmation.
E-Verify, along with the Form I-9, protects jobs for authorized
U.S. workers, improves the accuracy of wage and tax
reporting, and helps U.S employers maintain a legal
workforce.

https://www.visdhs.
com/EmployerRegistration, which provides instructions
for completing the registration process. For more information
about E-Verify, please contact USCIS at 1-888-464-4218.
Form M-274 (Rev. 11/01/2007) N Page 20

Bravo! Great letter vmonkey! And please post any reply, as a resident of NC, I cannot believe that we have so many non-English speaking in our midst. What I observe every day in this city are a lot more what I believe to be illegals, I cannot imagine that there are that many visas granted for the entire US. I have to admit I am learning Spanish at the closest grocery store, Gujurati from the guys at one gas station, and Urdu from the guys at the other station. And there are couple of guys at the health food store that speak Russian while they fill the shelves. I should ask them for a few words, like what do you call a toilet?

Wonderful....my daughter and granddaughter live in Wilmington..
Needless to say, NC needs more people to speak out.

vmonkey, I so appreciate that you are pushing this issue. We need to request that our lawmakers note this lack of verification of 1-9s.

Ephesians 4:32