[Clint N. Suhks]

That’s just checking ID. How can an employer prove your documentation is authentic?

An employer should not have to be responsible for enforcing federal law, that’s why the 1986 amnesty bill was a dismal failure. Unless there is some federal vetting agency that employers can use to authenticate citizenship they should not be held to account for their employee’s legal status.

[defconw]

Well they wrote the law in such a way, that there is no teeth in it. The id’s should have to be authenticated. It’s ridiculous, but that’s the government for you.

[DB]

The federal government could make it much easier to accurately check legal status. Having an online photo of the person that holds a particular social security number would go along ways towards that end. Only employers with a federal tax ID should be able to access that information. By simply confirming that the social security number matches the persons picture would dramatically improve knowing if it is real or not. The employer could even report that it doesn’t appear to match and have someone from the federal government review it.