Jun
07
As the national debate over E-Verify continues to heat up, some members of Congress seem intent on pushing for mass deportation strategies without taking into account the harm they will cause for American businesses and workers, and without acknowledging that making E-Verify mandatory will not resolve any underlying problems.
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/06/07/why-making-e-verify-mandatory-doesn%e2%80%99t-solve-anything/
May
26
By Mary Giovagnoli and Melissa Crow Today’s Supreme Court decision upholding Arizona’s law requiring employers to use E-verify or risk losing their business licenses will, like all Supreme Court decisions, take some time to digest. What’s surprising, however, is how quickly some are already jumping to the conclusion that today’s decision signals how the Supreme …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/05/26/scotus-e-verify-ruling-no-bellwether-for-fate-of-sb1070/
Apr
26
BY TYLER MORAN, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER The Social Security Administration (SSA) just announced it will resume its practice of notifying employers of discrepancies in employee paperwork through “no-match letters”—a mechanism which threatens countless American jobs. Despite the Administration’s clear assertion that the letter “makes no statement” about a worker’s immigration status, employer confusion over …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/26/are-ssa-no-match-letters-putting-american-jobs-at-risk/
Mar
23
BY TYLER MORAN, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER E-Verify has a problem: Washington politicians want to force American employers to use the electronic employment verification system, but the system is still not ready for prime time. On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) took a step toward remedying the database error rates by announcing E-Verify …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/03/23/new-%e2%80%9ce-verify-self-check%e2%80%9d-pilot-program-is-not-a-cure-all/
Feb
10
Today, the House Immigration Subcommittee held a hearing on the E-Verify system, a tool to help employers electronically verify that their employees have permission to work in the United States. Although E-Verify remains largely voluntary—except for federal contractors, employers in certain states that have made it mandatory, and a few other exceptions—some members of Congress …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/02/10/mandatory-e-verify-is-not-all-it%e2%80%99s-cracked-up-to-be/
Jan
19
BY TYLER MORAN, NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report, Employment Verification: Federal Agencies Have Taken Steps to Improve E-Verify, but Significant Challenges Remain. GAO’s verdict on E-Verify (a program to verify the employment eligibility of new hires) is in: this program is not yet ready for prime time. …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/01/19/how-expanding-e-verify-hurts-the-economy-and-american-workers/
Dec
10
Those following the Obama Administration’s legal challenge to Arizona’s SB 1070 have likely heard about “preemption”—the legal concept governing when state laws conflict with, and are therefore superseded by, acts of Congress. The heart of the dispute over SB 1070 is whether states have a right to provide assistance that the federal government does not …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/12/10/win-lose-or%e2%80%a6draw-the-supreme-court-tackles-arizona%e2%80%99s-employer-sanctions-law/
Jun
22
With frustrations running high over a lack of federal action on immigration, Fremont, Nebraska joined Arizona in restricting immigration. In a special election held yesterday, voters in Fremont passed an ordinance that will require businesses to verify employees’ immigration status and renters to apply for an occupancy license—which also requires a legal status check—before renting …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/06/22/fremont-residents-pass-restrictive-and-costly-immigration-ordinance/
Feb
26
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano spent the past two days testifying in front of congressional committees addressing concerns over President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2011 DHS budget. Mixed in among the complaints over proposed cuts in cyber security and the Coast Guard were a number of budget decisions with immigration implications. Chief …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/26/budgeting-immigration/
Feb
25
Another independent evaluation of the E-Verify program once again confirms what advocates have been saying for years—E-Verify doesn’t work. A new evaluation of the federal employment authorization program—conducted by Westat, a research company, in December 2009—is now available on the E-Verify website. The system only detected unauthorized workers about half of the time. The evaluation …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/25/e-verify-gets-it-wrong-again/
Immigration Impact is a project of the American Immigration Council.
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