Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Pointless Checks and Balances
Starting today, September 8 2009, all major companies will be required to verify that their employees are U.S. citizens. They are to use a website called E-Verify which will cross check the I-9 employees are to fill out verifying citizenship. The rule stipulates this only needs to be done for groups working on contracts of $100,000 or more. This is a step forward in the crackdown on illegal immigration however it seems a trivial place to start the search and recon. Most illegals (stereotypically) aren't looking for Fortune 500 jobs. If the government wants to be "serious" about the search, they should consider more "commonplace" employment (eg. Target, WalMart, grocery stores, fast food chains, landscaping companies).
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Reba, very good point! AT times it seems that the federal government is working to try to make it SEEM like they're reinforcing immigration laws, but in effect are doing very little.
ReplyDeleteI heard about this on NPR. They used a construction company in Arizona as an example of a business that had already been doing it. They also said that only nine people in Arizona had come across serious problems and one of the proponents argued that this constituted success of the program.
ReplyDeleteThe major flaw is that if you have give a name that checks out with the system then you're cleared. It has no way of verifying if that name is your real name.