The proposed bill would also require employers to adopt the E-Verify system, an electronic program that is now voluntary, in order to determine the legal employment status of current and prospective employees.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce supports expanding the E-Verify system, which is now used by a fraction of companies, though some states require all businesses to use it to clear new hires.
As an alternative to a biometric card, senators may move to strengthen the E-Verify system by, for example, requiring new hires to answer questions about previous addresses or other details, a person familiar with the Senate group's thinking said.
The bill is not without problems, such as the provision that mandates that all employers, public and private, use the federal E-Verify system, which checks workers' immigration status.
Jenks had the mic first and made the case against a pathway to citizenship and for a comprehensive e-Verify system (which would require employers to check the immigration status of their employees).
Without laws like THE LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT (E-Verify provision) In June 2011, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the Legal Workforce Act (HR 2164), an E-Verify bill that requires all employers to use the employment verification system.
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Supporters of E-Verify should concede that making the system mandatory will lead to its use for purposes well beyond immigration enforcement.
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The employment verification piece would be an expansion of an existing system called E-Verify that's currently voluntary for most employers, though it's mandatory in some states.
Advocates of mandatory E-Verify do not couch their support in the context of establishing such a system after making it easier for employers to hire foreign workers legally and addressing the situation of such workers already here.
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The bill would expose business owners to the genuine risk of losing their livelihoods because of a failure to follow government-mandated procedures, including under what circumstance to use E-Verify (only about 3 percent of employers now use the system).
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While railing against an expanding federal government harming small business in one breath, does it make sense for some Republican presidential candidates, for example, to call for requiring all employers to use an electronic verification system (E-Verify) every time someone in the country is hired?
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R. 2164, a bill pending in the House Judiciary Committee, would mandate all employers in America use E-Verify, an electronic employment verification system, when hiring new workers.
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