The New York Times reports that "the Obama administration will require businesses that win federal contracts to use a government electronic database system to verify that their employees have legal immigration status to work in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on Wednesday. After a six-month review, Homeland Security officials decided to go ahead with a worker verification plan based on the electronic system, called E-Verify. The system, which the Bush administration sought to put into effect in its final months, is meant to prevent federal contractors from hiring illegal immigrants."
The New York Times reports that at the same time as the e-verify decision, "Homeland Security officials said they would drop another Bush administration proposal that would have forced employers to fire any workers whose Social Security information did not match the records of the Social Security Administration. That measure, called the no-match rule, had been challenged in federal court by immigrant advocates and businesses, who said the Social Security database contained errors that could have cost thousands of legal workers their jobs."
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Thursday, July 9, 2009
Businesses That Win Federal Contracts Must Now Use E-Verify, But No-Match Rule Is Dropped
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