As part of my employment, I perform a local office orientation for all new hires. The most important aspect of this is the I-9 documentation; this information is entered into the E-Verify system. The firm I work for has policies that state if a person is unable to produce documentation for the I-9 and thus satisfy the E-Verify requirements then the offer of employment will be withdrawn. Former President of the United States George W. Bush issued an executive order in June 2008 requiring federal contractors to comply with E-Verify. This becomes a quick and efficient way of ensuring that employers are not employing illegal aliens. With a large number of Americans unemployed and an equally large number of illegal aliens working in the United States, I believe that E-Verify should be a mandatory requirement for all employers in the United States of America. With over thirteen million unemployed in the United States, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) would like to make sure that any jobs that are available go to legal workers. To this end, the senator has sponsored legislation to make the E-Verify system mandatory and permanent. At the same time as making E-Verify mandatory, imposing penalties on employers that either hire illegals or flat out refuse to use the system (Sessions). The chair of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Lamar Smith would also like to “Make E-Verify the law of the entire land” (Smith), so that people working illegally in the United States could be quickly identified, therefore protect jobs for legal American workers, while at the same time reducing the possibility of illegal immigration. Oklahoma in 2007 with house bill 1804 required public sector employers, contractors and sub-contractors to comply with E-Verify.... ... middle of paper ... ...s that were meant for American workers were not be taken up by illegal aliens. Works Cited Lee Ziner, Karen. "Judge Rejects ACLU's Bid to Halt State's use of E-Verify." Providence Journal, The (RI) 16 Sept. 2008 Newspaper Source Plus. EBSCO. Web. 6 July 2011. Monies, Paul. "New Law Has Employers Checking Out"." Daily Oklahoman, The (OK) 16 Sept. 2007. Newspaper Source Plus. EBSCO. Web. Web. 5 July 2011. Robison, Jennifer. "Leaders Decry Illegal Worker Crackdown." Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV) 11 Aug 2007. Newspaper Source Plus. EBSCO. Web. 6 July 2011. Sessions, Jeff. "Sessions Cosponsors Legislation to Make E-Verify Permanent." FDCH Press Releases n.d. Newspaper Source Plus. EBSCO. Web. 17 July 2011. Smith, Rep. Lamar. "Make E-Verify the law of the entire land." Washington Time, The (DC) 20 June 2011. Newspaper Source Plus. EBSCO. Web. 17 July 2011.
In the upcoming presidential election, one of the most popular topics is that of illegal immigration. Leading Republican candidate Donald J. Trump has run a campaign heavily anti-illegal immigration. He proposes reform in American immigration, specifically from Mexico. Many politicians and political activists argue that undocumented immigrants take job-positions from American workers and cost federal, state, and local governments considerably large amounts of money per year in law enforcement, education, and healthcare services. U.S. citizens are passionate to restore their economy, and many have adopted a very xenophobic attitude towards immigration amidst the new presidential debates. In order to restore our economy, many people believe that
The United States is facing illegal complexities that are affecting the people. “Immigration Problem Is about Us, Not Them,” by Jo-Ann Pilardi poses some powerful arguments that get readers thinking about who the culprits actually are behind the illegal immigrants coming across the southwestern border. First she declares that citizens in the United States use the word “illegal” in a “narrow” way, therefore causing americans to oversee other “illegal” activities. Then she goes on to explain that it is the “INE’s” (illegal native employers) that are truly responsible for the illegal immigrants sneaking through in the first place and elaborates that these buisness owners aren’t getting proper surveillance for these illegal activities. She closes by unfolding the United States’s problem of demanding cheap labor that results in relying on illegal immigrants. The opening argument is ironically a stereotype in itself, but it is logically correct. However, the fault comes in the
“They know we are illegal, so if I complain, what do you think they will say to me? ‘There’s the door if you don’t like it.” Any normal person would refrain from complaining if they knew they had a family to feed and bills to pay. She does not give personal anecdotes, only interviews. The writer does not show bias or favoritism towards the workers in an effort to end racial stereotypes against Mexicans. But, she uses facts and many in-text citations to describe and support the experiences of her
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Janice K. Brewer signed the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (SOLESNA), or Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (S.B. 1070, as it is popularly known). The purpose of the act is “... to discourage and deter the unlawful entry and presence of aliens and economic activity by persons unlawfully present in the United States” (Senate Bill 1070, 2010). Arizona Senate Bill 1070 is considered one of the harshest anti-immigration law due to it’s enforcements. Nevertheless, it is not the first law of it’s kind. Geographically, Arizona is prime for an anti-immigration bill such as S.B. 1070, as it is one of four states (including California, Texas, and New Mexico) that borders Mexico. Previously, Arizona passed laws such as proposition 200 in 2004, “which barred the provision of public benefits to illegal aliens and required proof of citizenship when individuals registered to vote” (Kobach, 2011). Then it followed with the Arizona human smuggling law in 2005 and the Legal Arizona Workers Act of 2007, “which made Arizona the first state in the nation to require all businesses to use the federal E-Verify program to confirm the work authorization of employees” (Kobach, 2011). While a bill such as S.B. 1070 can generate much controversy, support for its enactment can be traced back to Rob Krentz, an Arizona farmer that “ was shot and killed 30 miles outside of Douglas, Arizona nearly a month before the bill passed” (Long-Garcia, 2010). Although nobody was charged with the crime, the local authorities believed it to be the act of drug smugglers. According to The Battle for Arizona by Nathan Thornburgh, Krentz’s death arose issues that have been talked about before the incident but have not been dealt w...
... great need to put a new policy into effect, which addressed the changing immigration issues of family, visas, workforce, citizenship and other legal matters. In June 2013, the U.S. Senate approved a policy called S.744 which is called “The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013”. This reform bill will now be sent to the U.S. House of Representatives. The majority of the Republican Party is expected to oppose this bill. This reform includes, as Traurig and Reiff (2013) stated, “A path to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants, an innovative temporary worker program, increased visa numbers for skilled foreign workers, and a nationwide employment eligibility verification system”. One thing is for certain; we can all agree that immigration reform is a must. It is apparent that his bill is a step in the right direction.
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...l immigrants from working in the US they want to reduce the amount of documents accepted to verify the employees identity and if they were permitted to work in the US, increase fines for hiring illegal workers, increase investigation of employers who hire illegal workers, and all Federal contractors would be required to use the Federal Electronic Employment Verification System to verify each employee. If the United States wants to decrease the amount of illegal immigrants from entering the United States they would need to increase the use of E-Verify to other industries. E-Verify is an Internet-based system that allows businesses to determine if an employees in legal to work in the United States. Making E-Verify integrated with DMV’s (Department of Motor Vehicle) round the country to avoid illegal workers from obtaining jobs by showing a fake driver’s license.
This passed in the senate, but did not pass in the house. It proposed the following for undocumented (illegal) immigrants: 1. after 10 years they could apply for “legal permanent residence” 2. They would have to pay back taxes and 2,00 fine 3. They would have to know English in order to pass English test 4. Pass background checks 5. They would have to have lived and worked in this country continuously. I think they are making this proposal very tedious because they want these illegal immigrants to work hard to earn a spot. Also, I think some people would not start this process because they have to waited too long. An example is waiting 10 years to apply for legal permanent resident. THAT’S A LONG PROCESS. Paying back taxes is understandable but it may take some a long time to pay that money back. The second part to the proposal is for people trying to get visas (legal immigrants): 1. Merit-based point system- allow you to be at the head of the list 2. More vias would go to high skilled people especially in STEM fields and fewer would go to the family member of people already here. I think the merit based system will be very helpful because it will give them a boost in the process. I do not understand why they would want to give more vias to high skilled people, when most of them are coming to the country for their education and then go back to their country. They
One of the most crucial requirements of any organization is completing Form I-9, otherwise called Employment Eligibility Verification. The purpose of the Form I-9 is to prove that every new employee hired by an organization is allowed to work in the United States. This form initially appeared on November 6, 1986, when President Ronald Reagan approve the Immigration Reform and Control Act. At that time, many people were concerned that undocumented immigrants were tempted to come to the United States because of the abundance of work opportunity. Thus, the Immigration Reform and Control Act was passed to improve, reexamine, and rectify the status of unauthorized immigrants presented in the Immigration and Nationality Act. More precisely, the act
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At this point in time, the program had reached 1,064 employers and there were 559,815 reported cases. Fast forward to 2004, and it has been a year since Congress extended the life of the Basic Pilot Program until November 2008, and a new web-based access method was put into and it allowed people to access the program through any computer with internet, and it also included online enrollment, reporting capability, and 23 hours access. At this time, there was an enrollment of 3,478 employers and 757, 342 reported cases. In 2006 North Carolina passed the SB 1523 which required all state agencies, offices, and universities to use E-Verify which applied to all employees hired after January 1, 2007 but for local education agencies it did not go into effect until March 1, 2007. Three years after the extension of the program, in 2007 the Basic Pilot Program experienced greater improvements and was officially renamed E-Verify. Once the program was renamed, the additional features that were added were an automatic flagging system that double-checks data that was entered and it helped reduce data entry errors and mismatches by up to 30%, and photo matching was also added. For the 2007 record, 24,463 employers were enrolled and there were 3,271,871 reported cases. On June 6, 2008, President George W. Bush amended Executive Order 12989 requiring all federal contractors to verify eligibility employment of new hires using the E-Verify system which was scheduled to be in effect by January 15, 2009 but due to a lawsuit filed by multiple parties, the order was not official until September 8,
Internet privacy and security has become the concern of many individuals throughout recent years. There are a very limited amount of laws that have been enacted to combat computer or cyber related crimes. This has become an issue because as the internet grows increasingly popular so does the criminal and immoral behavior that abounds on it. With these crimes gaining in impact, effectiveness, and frequency, there needs to be more repercussions for these crimes. The United States government needs to increase restrictions on the amount and type of data on individuals from the internet, to prevent the government from invading privacy of citizens and to prevent companies from storing browser histories of individuals, to then sell that information to ad agencies and other companies.
People want the freedom and empowerment to use technology, while being protected against malicious actions. Protection starts with awareness and education, the government needs to begin empirical goals around previous campaign successes. President Obama noted, “The government is bringing about unprecedented transparency and liability for Americans to take part in their democracy.” (Obama, 2009).
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