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• Illegal Workers Manage to Skirt Ariz. Employer-Sanctions Law
  The Arizona Republic  11/30/2008
  Undocumented workers and employers in Arizona are finding ways to circumvent the state's employer-sanctions law by turning to the underground, or cash, economy.
• Different Laws in Different Locations
  The Standard Speaker (Hazleton, PA)  11/13/2008
  Voters in Columbia County, Oregon, last week decided to fine contractors $10,000 for hiring illegal immigrants.
• Expanding Flawed E-Verify System Will Hurt Lawful Workers
  New American Media  10/12/2008
  The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is up to it again, releasing a new and highly misleading "report" claiming that the E-Verify employment verification program is 99.5 percent accurate. This is yet another in CIS's long series of dubious "studies" issued to stall meaningful immigration reform and push its deportation-only agenda.
• Business Cite a Catch-22 After Miss. Immigration Raid
  The Washington Post  08/27/2008
  The arrests this week of nearly 600 immigrant workers at a manufacturing plant in Laurel, Miss., are fueling a national debate over a federal system to check new hires' work documents, a program whose expansion the Bush administration has made a cornerstone of its fight against illegal immigration.
• SHRM Challenges E-Verify Rules for Federal Contractors
  SHRM Online  08/25/2008
  Comments submitted by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) on a proposal that would require federal contractors to use the government’s electronic employment verification system question whether the Bush administration has the authority to impose such a mandate.
• Contractors Oppose Rule on Employee Citizenship Verification
  Federal Times  08/18/2008
  Contractors are opposing a government plan that would require them to verify the immigration status of their employees.
• Hiring a Legal Workforce: Does the E-Verify Program Work?
  The Iowa Independent  08/14/2008
  Two out of the three test balloons floated 11 years ago by the Clinton Administration and Congress as possible ways to lessen the nation’s illegal immigration problem popped quickly. A third, known since 2007 as E-Verify, continues to float around the nation. While both private and government organizations have been critical of the tool, new voices have begun to emerge to question not only the effectiveness but the politics behind its continuance.
• Critics: E-Verify Proposal Flouts Law
  HS Today  08/12/2008
  The Bush administration is deliberately attempting to thwart congressional will that the E-Verify employment verification system remain voluntary for all US employers with a proposed regulation that would compel federal contractors to use the system, according to comments submitted Monday by a workforce coalition advocating a private sector system.
• Groups Urge House Leaders to Improve E-Verify System
  CongressDaily  07/18/2008
  Nearly a dozen corporate and nonprofit organizations sent House leaders a letter Wednesday seeking congressional action to overhaul an electronic system that companies can use to verify the legal status of their workers.
• Cindy Butler: R.I. Dodges Bullet of E-Verify
  The Providence Journal  06/28/2008
  Rhode Island recently dodged a bullet when controversial legislation that would have required all state employers to use E-Verify — the federal government’s much criticized citizenship-verification system — was allowed to die in the state Senate.
• Don’t Tie Student Employment Program to E-Verify
  The Hill  05/07/2008
  If nothing else, the Department of Homeland Security is persistent — even when it comes to forcing a flawed and outdated program upon U.S. employers.
• R.I. Employers Face Possible Mandate on E-Verify
  Providence Business News  04/21/2008
  Human-resources advocate Cindy Butler says she supports creating a federal electronic employment-verification system to curtail illegal immigration, so long as it’s accurate and reliable.
• Employers Fret Over Work ID Mandate
  Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)  03/02/2008
  Tim Hartigan wanted to make sure he wasn't hiring illegal workers at his St. Paul foundry. So he signed up for an electronic identity-check system that has become Minnesota's first major attempt to stop illegal immigration at its magnet: the workplace. Click here to view the full article.
• Legislation to Create New Mandatory Employee Verification Process Introduced
  Daily Labor Report  02/29/2008
  Legislation (H.R. 5515) that would create a new mandatory national employee verification process for U.S. citizens and immigrants to replace the government's E-Verify program was introduced by four Republican representatives Feb. 28.
• Kansas Urged to Rethink Immigration Proposals
  Lawrence Journal-World & News (Topeka, KS)  01/27/2008
  Republicans and Democrats in the Kansas Legislature say the best way to take a bite out of illegal immigration is to punish employers who hire workers who are not supposed to be here.