E-Verify Battle Could Soon Greet Texas Lawmakers
State legislators intent on cracking down on the hiring of undocumented workers could be embracing a system so fraught with errors that some critics say it actually hinders employers who use it to check the eligibility of new hires. Employers could also be caught up in a constitutional legal battle in the process.
At least half a dozen bills have been filed in the Texas House mandating the use of the federal electronic employment verification system known as E-Verify. U.S. Citizen and Immigrant Services manages the system, which compares the information potential workers submit to an employer on their ...
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Daniel M. Kowalski
Best state/local story on E-Verify I've read recently. I've linked to it on FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, www.ijjblog.org and www.bibdaily.com. Bravo, Julian! (And don't forget Rick Perry's comment: "E-Verify would not make a hill of beans' difference when it comes to what's happening in America today.")
Dan Kowalski, Bender's Immigration Bulletin (LexisNexis).
Michael B Openshaw
'So fraught with errors' ? From the GAO report:
"USCIS data indicate that E-Verify immediately confirmed about 97.4 percent of almost 8.2 million newly hired employees as work authorized during fiscal year 2009, compared to 92 percent from fiscal year 2006 to the second quarter of fiscal year 2007"
So, in a matter of 2 years, they have reduced non confirmations from 8% to 2.6%; and THESE MAY NOT BE ERRORS but actual invalid identifications. The statement in the report is that 'Errors persist', but there is no determination of the number and you can bet it's WAY under the 2.6% of non-confirmations.
No system is perfect; but we have to start somewhere.
Mike Openshaw via Texas Tribune on Facebook
'So fraught with errors' ? From the GAO report:
"USCIS data indicate that E-Verify immediately confirmed about 97.4 percent of almost 8.2 million newly hired employees as work authorized during fiscal year 2009, compared to 92 percent from fiscal year 2006 to the second quarter of fiscal year 2007"
So, in a matter of 2 years, they have reduced non confirmations from 8% to 2.6%; and THESE MAY NOT BE ERRORS but actual invalid identifications. The statement in the report is that 'Errors persist', but there is no determination of the number and you can bet it's WAY under the 2.6% of non-confirmations.
No system is perfect; but we have to start somewhere.
C Baker
What a one sided story..completely from the perspective of those who back the hiring of illegal aliens for greater profits..Slaves used to make great profits for the Master too..God forbid that anything like e-varify should get in the way of that.
Jack Suggs via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We're from the Tea Party, and we're here to help.
Liz Theiss
A 97.4 % rate of accuracy ain't bad when it comes to protecting American workers & US sovereignty. The next generation of Americans are having their nation stolen from them by dint of a total dedication of an unscrupulous elite and business community trying to skirt the law. There is no difference between a drug cartel and what these businesses are pulling off. Meanwhile taxpayers are subsidizing this labor system. The SC E-Verify Law is the best model with more prosecutions because they have auditors that go and check employer files. The businesses can choose between a copy of the SC drivers liscense (which they made hard to obtain for illegals or E-Verify) thus avoiding litigation. DO NOT BELIEVE A WORD OF ANY OF THESE LEGISLATORS..they are all contributed to by the slave labor lobby.The laws they wrote only address the fed/state contracts. They do not come close to stopping the magnet of illegal immigration.
That's why citizens need to take the lead on this issue.
Please visit www.stopthemagnet.com
Liz Theiss
It's free and easy to use.Protects businesses from prosecution in many cases if they use it and with any flagged employees there is a process to submit docs to clarify the correct name,etc. Full identity fraud is something they are working on but it is getting tighter every year. The SCOTUS will issue a ruling in the summer. It looks good to get approval. It has also passed the scrutiny of the 9th circuit. Believe me...the business lobby does not want this system.
Thomas Korkmas
Well written story intended to convince us that we should accept illegal aliens taking US citizen jobs, driving our streets without a dirvers license and insurance, and working for cash while citizens have to pay federal income taxes, social security, No concern that all levels of government are facing budget shortfalls because of the cost of educating, feeding and providing medical care to the illegals children and families. Truth is, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce represents businesses who wish to shift their cost of hiring employees to the general public so that they can be more competitive than those who follow the rule of law. What we need is severe penalties for anyone who fails to make due inquiry about the citizen status of any employee. This includes all government entities and businesses. The penalty should be loss of license, corporate status and prohibition from receiving contracts that contain public funds in any amount. Severe malpractice requires severe consequences.
C Baker
The dishonest businesses who hire illegals absolutely undercut the honest business owners at every turn until they finally put them out of business..E-verify should be used by anyone who operates a business in the State of Texas regardless of whether they have their own employees or are contracting the work out to subscontractors. Those subcontractors are the ones who are able to hide behind a larger employer.
C Baker
And if that means that I have to pay $100 more for my tile job from Home Depot, so be it....I'd rather pay them more to contract with Americans than pay more taxes to the hospital district, the city, county, school district etc..to subsidise the illegal employees of greety dishonest businesses.
Tucano Fulano
E-Verify works just fine. The only noise against it comes from anti-Americans and the open borders cartel. House and Senate should pass it and the governor should sign it into law.
Robert Gavin
This issue is coming to a head soon. We Texans will find out if the Joe Strauss Legislate is working for sovereign individual taxpaying Texans ...... or ....... whether they are working for their masters from the government-industrial money contributing complex(syndicate).
Horace Rumphole
The writer of this article is hardly convincing in his biased tripe. Sorry Kowalski, it would seem that your MSM ethnocentric Hispanic anti-sovereignty machine has run up against a consensus of readers who object to your point of view, as indicated by the majority of commentators to this article. Moreover, they represent the attitudes of most citizens. E-verify and those that concur with its intent are making a statement on how they feel about your progressive open borders movement and attempt make a trans-American government. Most people recognize that you're working for Mexican people and other Latin American interests at the expense of their fellow U.S. citizens. The message is quickly getting through. After the next elections in 2012, there will be an entirely Republican congress and president, and all this nonsense about illegal immigrants rights will be treated with the contempt that it deserves. The American people will then get down to the business of restoring their control over illegal immigrants and their border.
Horace Rumphole
“Under our constitution, it says federal law is the supreme law of the land."
This is simply not the absolute fact that the progressives who would do away with State's rights assert it to be. For example, should the federal government enact a law abolishing all state legislatures, the Supreme Court would certainly not view that as a prerogative of the federal government under the Supremacy Clause. I have no doubt that there are far more rights accorded to the states than the Supremacy Clause could prevail against, but you wouldn't think so, if you listened to the progressive left. The truth is that only those powers exclusive to the federal government as enumerated by the Constitution can be considered subject to the Supremacy Clause, else state's rights would only be a theory. Immigration is a prerogative of the states. There is nothing in the Constitution of the U.S. that gives the federal government exclusive control of immigration. The power to establish rules for naturalization is not equivalent to the power to govern immigration, the Necessary and Proper Clause nothwithstanding. The historical context of immigration shows that the intent of the Founding Fathers was to eliminate the argument that the "several states" had with respect to granting citizenship. At the time of the Articles of Confederation, one state could reject another's naturalized citizen. When the federal government was given the power to establish rules under the COTUS, that problem was resolved, as one became the citizen of the United States as well as the state they had immigrated to. Historically, the states had control over immigration long after the enactment of the COTUS. Just how were did they avoid challenge to their actions for decades after the COTUS came into effect. Like new rulings in this century establishing specially protected social groups, such rulings by the courts just seem to spring out of the blue, without regard to the Founder's intent or Constitutional validity. The progressive left, which loves to amend the COTUS by judicial fiat, cites the Supremacy Clause in this case because it fits their view of the all-powerful central government that would make state boundaries irrelevant, and state legislatures impotent. It was the subsequent neglect of the states in doing their duty that informally ceded this right and gave the federal government the opportunity to usurp power that they had no legal right to.
Brittanicus
SAVE YOUR STATE NOW
The ACLU (American Communist Lawyers Union) is just part of the conspiracy to tame each State legislator, in threaten them with a court proceeding. But like all radical groups who see America as multinational country, multi-national language and the free flow of foreign workers with families is going to be overwhelmed by more and more States taking the same route of authoring bills to stop the invasion such as Arizona, Iowa and New Mexico's Governor Susana Martinez. Whereas the prior Governor Bill Richardson had an open house for illegal aliens, to even issuing drivers licenses, the new Governor sees this as a bad move. As a start the lady has issued her own executive order, for law enforcement to question criminal foreign nationals. State Capitols finally realize the insane ideology of Liberal extremists is certain to bring their individual states to insolvency if not corrected, as with the Sanctuary State of California with a 26 billion dollar deficit. This nation can no longer serve the rest of the world by taking their destitute, their uneducated with an intermix of criminals. When we cannot even offer health care to our own, then why should we be an HMO to the planet? Why are we giving welfare to foreigners, who never paid into the fund? Why are we educating their children when they broke our sovereign laws to come here? The ACLU might have intimidated small towns like Farmers Branch, TX, Hazleton, PA, but not individual states such as Georgia?
More than ever it makes sense to demand of our lawmakers to introduce--MANDATORY--E-Verify. If it was enforced nationwide there would be no excuse for every company to use it, big and small. No matter the size of the business, not matter who owns the company, every commercial enterprise should be held accountable if they are audited and found to have hired illegal workers. Every blog has shown that hundreds of thousands of companies, whether in construction, entertainment or the service industry or any other business have as many as 50 illegal aliens working. Yet countrywide millions of American citizens-legal residents are either trudging around looking for work or having to file for unemployment benefits. Any company that hires more than five illegal workers should be painfully fined, with no exemption from business asset confiscation and 6 months to five years in prison.
E-Verify would have been mandatory months ago, if Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) had not tried to table the enforcement tool, it could well have been a permanently installed as federal law required. E-Verify provide an automated link to federal databases to help employers determine employment eligibility of new hires and the validity of their Social Security numbers. All employers must first complete an I-9 form for every new hire, within three business days of the date the employee starts work. Employers may not begin the I-9 process until after the individual is hired. As yet it's not perfected, but now the program has included photo identification methods, to correct the fraudulent use of deceased, military and infant Social Security numbers.
The GAO (General Accounting Office) describes a nationwide Driver’s License pilot program that is planned to get underway in 2011. Now is the time for all US citizens and green card holders demand there States legislators allow the federal government to cross reference the SSA and DHS databases with Department of Motor Vehicles. The open border groups and radical ethnocentric organizations have plotted against its use. The arch Liberals hidden within the ranks of moderate Democrats have used the media and left wing blogs to polarize it, but they are failing miserable as thousands more respectable business owners are access the simple process online.
With more than 16 million queries ran by more than 243,000 employers in fiscal year 2010, this much is certain: E-Verify is here to stay. Just as with any new innovation, eventually the E-Verify system will be have a success rate of identifying illegal workers an opening jobs for Americans and legal immigrants. For more information on the epidemic of the illegal settlement of illegal aliens, the massive 14th Amendment instant--baby--citizenship controversial law, the Dream Act and amnesty investigate the consequences at http://tinyurl.com/p6zx9 or the pages of Rense.com/ There are three parts to this series of articles at http://tinyurl.com/668tvvp, http://tinyurl.com/6aupx9w, http://tinyurl.com/62b95pe, illustrating the potential of irreversible overpopulation issues and other predicaments that is the welfare entitlements http://tinyurl.com/5rpbz99, http://tinyurl.com/5v5a7ug and http://tinyurl.com/4uc48th that discusses these major issues. Learn everything you need to know about the corruption and illegal immigration at http://tinyurl.com/c8y7re and http://tinyurl.com/zjsgl
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Horace Rumphole
"The question is whether we have one federal immigration law that applies in all 50 states that is enforced by the federal government and is applied the same way,” he said, “or whether every state jumps in” with its own policies."
As stated in my previous entry, immigration was once the province of the states, until the federal government usurped their power. In other than immigration, common social and economic behaviors are already disparately regulated from state to state. I repeat, identical crimes and business activity are treated differently from state to state. Immigration would just be another social behavior that would get the same treatment, so there would be nothing stopping them from enacting variations on their own immigration laws if they so choose. The progressives would argue that this would result in inconvenience to those who live under such laws, but their solution is to have the federal government maintain the illegal expansive powers to make them universal within the country. I concur with uniformity, but the solution isn't to violate Constitutional prerogatives, but rather to amend the COTUS, if possible, or cooperate with the states separately in enacting common laws.
Paul Smith
I am just sick and tired of politicians catering to special interests rather than taking care of Texas and Texans. Illegal aliens are -- ILLEGAL! They are taking jobs away from Texans and those who can't find work or choose not to work are helping destroy our economy. Quit catering to them.
It's time for the States to stand up to the central government and assert their 9th and 10th Amendment rights. States have sovereign borders that they have every right to defend. The State issues business licenses - not the central government - and have the right to rescind them when businesses fail to obey the law.
Nothing is ever perfect. Use e-Verify for ALL businesses. Allow flagged workers to protest the ruling and to work pending a final decision if they choose. (That way, local law enforcement or ICE will know where to find them and charges for forgery, fraud, etc. can be added.)
Janet Thomas
I hardly think that a system where there is a 97.4% confirmation rate compared to 92% two years prior is hardly what anyone would consider "fraught with errors". Is it perfect? Absolutely not, however, in the last 2 years they have made tremendous improvements, with the admission that there is more to be done and outlining what areas need to be addressed. My concern in reading the report is that according to the authors, complete e-verify compliance will not be possible until comprehensive immigration reform (amnesty) is enacted - seems to be the carrot held out to the American people. There is no reason that adequate funding cannot be given to this much needed program. The individuals and groups mentioned in this article that are against the program have fed at the trough of illegal employees for years and naturally do not want any type of status verification system.
voteforamerica
LATINOS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
TEAPARTYOFTX@GMAIL.COM
April 17th, 2011
Fellow Americans, Obama and the Democrats are working in secret, to pass the Dream act by Executive order, this is President's Obama tool for quick enactment of the Dream Act.
An Executive order, is an order issue by The President as head of the executive branch of the Federal Government, but this push for amnesty to illegal aliens by executive order, deviates from the congressional intent and exceeds the President's constitutional powers. Article I, Section 1 of the US Constitution specifically reserves all federal legislative authority to Congress, not the president. No President should use executive orders as a way to make policy without consulting the Congress. Obama think that he can do whatever he wants and trash our Constitution. Congress, must stop Obama from take- over the Congressional powers, we have a Constitution and no president should have the power to act unilaterally to void the laws of the United States, Obama took an oath to defend the Constitution , but what he is doing is to trash our Constitution and our laws. This president order the Dept. of Home land Security not to enforce our immigration laws, he refused to secure our borders, he order Erick Holder to sued The State of Arizona, for enforcing the immigration laws and protect the people of Arizona, 2,158 Americans are being kill in our country every year by illegal aliens, our jobs are taken by illegal aliens, 30 Billion Dollars per year are send out of the United States by illegal aliens and our Government is helping them to destroy our local economics. Fellow Americans, Obama and the pro-amnesty Washington politicians, “LA RAZA, MALDEF, MECHA,LULA, THE HISPANIC CAUCUS AND THE NATIONAL HISPANIC LEADERSHIP" are a threat to our country. Promoting or stand for any immigration reform or amnesty is to void the rule of law, our Constitution and our sovereignty. Their hungry for political power blind them to the point of treason and betray their own country. Fellow Americans we are the heart of America, we can not let this happen, we are the believers of our Constitution, the rule of law and our sovereignty; what we see today is the result of the amnesty of 1986, President Reagan and congress give amnesty to 3.5 millions illegal aliens and promised to the American people that this will never be done again. The amnesty of 1986 promoted this invasion of illegal aliens, now we have more than 12 million illegal aliens, and Obama refused to enforce our immigration laws and is planning behind our backs with Democrats Senators to give amnesty to the illegal aliens; this is plain and simple treason and he must be impeach by congress.
Fellow tea party members, we got a job to do, the following is the list of senators that voted in support the Dream act and amnesty to illegal aliens. They are up for re-election in 2012, we declared war on the corrupt Washington politicians and our job is to retire the busters from the political arena.
Here is the list of our target. Senators that supported the Dream act, that are up for re-election in 2012.
SENATOR-STATE-PARTY SENATOR-STATE- PARTY
Bingaman NM Dem Feinstein Cal Dem
Nelson FL Dem Gillibrand NY Dem
Menendez NJ Dem Lieberman CT Ind
Whitehouse RI Dem Cantwell WA Dem
Akaka HI Dem Cardin MD Dem
Carper DE Dem Webb VA Dem
Lugar IN Rep Kohl WI Dem
Casey PA Dem Klobuchar MN Dem
Stabenow MI Dem McCaskill MO Dem
Brown OH Dem Conrad ND Dem
Sanders VT Ind
Obama Ill Dem- Traitor, pathological liar- no values-no principles- whore that sell out to special interest and the IMF- The World Bank- The US Reserve Bank and the WTO. We Latinos will work to get the traitors out of Washington. We ask you to get inform and vote out of office the politicians that fail to vote for what is best for all Americans including Blacks and Latinos. Any immigration reform it is not good for the American people and in violation of our laws and constitution.
http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.ht nd-money-home.html http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/immigrants-se http ://www.cairco.org/econ/econ.html http://biggovernment.com/awrhawkins/2011/04/12/while-governor-jan-brewer-fights-to-keep-arizona-safe-president-obama-fights-against-arizona/
Francisco Canales teapartyoftx@gmail.com
William Shipp
A little bias Julian ?? How come every time an issue comes up with illegal aliens Latino reporters
side with them.
E-verify has been proven effective for years.Not perfect but the system is the best for determining
who is eligible to work so far.
With Secure Communities and E-Verify the grip is tightening on the illegal alien and it not going
to stop there. Heard of Social Security Cards with RFID chips ?? You wont be able to work without
one.By the there will be no Dream Act or Amnestia nunca !!!!