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• Arizona Employers Focusing on Costs, Effects of New Law
  The Arizona Republic  12/30/2007
  Like many managers in Arizona, Debra Beal knows a far-reaching crackdown on businesses that employ illegal immigrants is at hand. And like thousands across the state, the restaurant manager has yet to make drastic changes at her business.
• Absent Federal Reform, States Increasingly Tackling Immigration
  The Dallas Morning News  11/30/2007
  Immigration-related legislation tripled in state legislatures this year, reflecting growing worry and rancor over enforcement and assimilation of the foreign-born, according to a new report released Thursday by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
• Worker Status Checks’ Errors Called ‘Severe’
  The Los Angeles Times  11/28/2007
  Possible discrimination against foreign-born employees remains a concern for an electronic verification system that ultimately catches a tiny fraction of workers in the United States illegally, immigration officials were told Tuesday.
• Report: E-Verify Database Fails Standard Test
  Washington Technology  11/26/2007
  The E-Verify program uses a database that does not meet accuracy standards set by Congress, according to a new report from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
• Planned Worker ID Called Vulnerable/Effort to Control Immigration Could Boost Identity Theft
  The San Francisco Chronicle  06/25/2007
  The linchpin of all new proposals to control illegal immigration, including a Senate bill up for reconsideration this week, is an electronic employer verification system to shut off the job magnet that has attracted millions of illegal workers to the United States.
• Employers Oppose Hiring Provisions in Immigration Bill
  The Washington Post   06/03/2007
  As Congress reconvenes this week, businesses and their lobbyists are gearing up to fight a series of proposed changes to immigration law that they say will complicate hiring.
• The Divided States of America; States and Municipalities are Responding in Wildly Different Ways to Undocumented Workers
  BusinessWeek  04/16/2007
  Gustavo Torres is a popular guy these days. As he walks into the storefront worker center he runs, the Hispanic men and women who fill the waiting room wave and call out "buenos días." Torres' nonprofit has been hired by Montgomery County, Md., to provide employment services to these immigrants,about 60% of whom are in the country illegally.
• Illegal Worker, Troubled Citizen and Stolen Name
  The New York Times  03/22/2007
  MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa - The two women named Violeta Blanco have never met. But for a long time they shared not only a name, but the same birth date and the same Social Security number.
• Immigration: High-Tech Methods, New Rules, Needed For Employment Verification, HR Groups Say
  Bureau of National Affairs  03/08/2007
  An effective state-of-the-art electronic system for verifying the work authorizations of new employees is essential for any effort at immigration reform and stemming the tide of illegal immigration, a coalition of human resource management groups said March 7 in Washington, D.C.
• New HR Coalition Seeks Reliable Employment Verification System
  SHRM Online  03/07/2007
  With more than 30 immigration-related bills circulating in Congress, a new coalition of HR groups—including the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)—is urging lawmakers to create an employment verification system that does not require employers to become enforcement arms of the government.