There are many privacy and efficacy issues related to the latest immigration legislation requiring employment verification system from US workers. While it may appear deceptively simple, it is inundated with problems that would negate any true benefits from immigration reform to eradicate illegal immigration problems. Here’s the article from Immigration Impact.
Today the Senate Immigration Subcommittee held a hearing addressing electronic employment verification. While today’s hearing acknowledged that employment verification is an important element of comprehensive immigration reform, serious questions remain about how a mandatory employment verification system should be designed. Today’s momentum building must be paired with serious analysis of the many serious issues involved with a large, mandatory employment verification system.
While employment verification is viewed as an immigration enforcement tool, it is a program that affects every person working in the U.S.—including U.S. citizens.