House committee puts brakes on E-Verify
July 9, 2008 by Sam NarisiPosted in: Applicant background screening, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Security and law
Just as rules requiring employers to use the federal government’s E-Verify system were gaining steam, a House of Representatives committee has voted against continuing the program.
The House Appropriations Committee voted on bill to set the DHS’s funding for next year. Included in the appropriations bill was an amendment that would extend E-Verify for 10 years past this November 30, the day the program is set to expire.
The committee rejected the amendment.
Some of E-Verify’s supporters in Congress have announced plans to get a similar bill extending the program before the House Judiciary Committee next month. We’ll keep you posted.
Tags: e-verify, House Appropriations Committee, House Judiciary Committee
August 19th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
My information is e-verify has been extended for five years, this from our voting district representative’s mailing. She was against it but I beleive the number of protests she reseived changed her position, if not her mind. It is really not hard to use and is the best form of verification we have. Employers should not be the policemen and need a tools to detect fraudalent documents.
E-verify is the best we have to date and we have not found it difficult to get errors correct if the party is legal, if not they don’t go to Social Security office with documents and don’t come back to us.