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• "Bill Does Tout Biometrics for Firms"
  The Arizona Republic  08/29/2009
  The New Employee Verification Act, which I introduced earlier this year along with a fellow Arizonan, Rep. Harry Mitchell, would establish a voluntary program in which employers could enroll and use biometric identifiers to ensure that their new hires are authorized to work in the United States. The program is designed to improve on the current E-Verify system, which is vulnerable to abuse through identity theft and document fraud.
• "Biometric Technology Opens New Security Frontiers"
  The Arizona Republic  08/20/2009
  ...Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., who chairs the Senate's immigration subcommittee, has said that a verification system based on fingerprints, iris scans or some other form of biometrics must be part of any comprehensive immigration-reform bill.
• SHRM-Backed Bill Launches Employment Verification Debate
  Workforce Management  04/23/2009
  The legislation mandates that all employers sign up for the Electronic Employment Verification System, which is based on the new-hire system used in each state to enforce child support payments. About 90 percent of employers use the new-hire system already.
• E-Verify Deadline Postponed Again
  Washington Technology  04/20/2009
  The Homeland Security Department has pushed back the deadline for implementing the final rule for contractors to use the E-Verify employment verification system for another six weeks. The new deadline is June 30.
• 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.