Posted on 05/21/2007 9:12:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
WASHINGTON -- It is called EEVS -- pronounced Eves -- and it could be one of the poison apples in the immigration-overhaul bill that the Senate begins debating today.
The Employment Eligibility Verification System would require employers to review the work-and-identity documents of all 146 million U.S. workers within three years -- and then hold CEOs responsible for certifying that those workers are legally eligible to hold their jobs.
"It's like throwing a huge net to catch a few minnows," says Randel Johnson, a vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
As the immigration bill moved to the Senate floor, following a 69-23 vote last night, business groups worried that the worker-verification requirements of the bill would put a huge new responsibility on employers who have grown reliant on immigrant workers, even while national policy allows relatively few of them to live and work here legally.
In a trade-off between Democrats and business-friendly Republicans on the one hand, and social conservatives and national-security hawks on the other, the compromise bill would legalize most of the 12 million illegal immigrants now in the U.S. and set up a huge temporary-worker program. But it also would require the government to tighten border controls and employers to purge their work forces of illegal employees.
The Senate measure builds on a 1986 law that requires employers to ask new workers to prove who they are and that they have a right to work in the U.S. by producing any of a number of documents, including passports, Social Security cards and driver's licenses. Currently, employers can voluntarily compare those documents against Social Security and Department of Homeland Security databases using a system called Basic Pilot.
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Yeah. All we need is more paperwork and reports to do the jobs government won’t do now.
Border enforcement would help make everyones job easier.
“”It’s like throwing a huge net to catch a few minnows,” says Randel Johnson, a vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce”
12 - 20 million is a lot of minnows, you dimwit.
Sort of like Sarbannes-Oxley?
: )
“a few minnows”???
Since many Unions are “Bigger” than the Employers that use their Members; shouldn’t those Big Unions be more Liable than those small employers?
“But it also would require the government to tighten border controls and employers to purge their work forces of illegal employees.”
Oh poor Wall Street Journal. They get their amnesty bill and all they do is nit-pick at a few provisions.
The jokes on the businesses when these illegal aliens become citizens and vote democrat, and the democrats in turn use their new powers to raise taxes, increase the minimum wage and pass all kinds of new regulations. No business that supports this has a right to complain when that happens.
Suckers.
When I joined the Union a few yrs ago (no longer a member) I recall having to file a I-9 immigration status form and provide documentation of two forms of ID.
I think only a few employers or groups still fill out the I-9. As an employer myself, there is no need. I can pretty much tell who is American by their appearance and accent.
Pointing out those differences is not racist. It is an honest observation with a logical conclusion.
There is nothing difficult about establishing citizenship except the government has complicated matters by dropping the ball on law enforcement.
I couldn’t hire my God-Son until He presented the required documents.
I’m still required to keep those I-9’s FOREVER.
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