Federal contractors must use E-Verify starting Sept. 8

July 9th, 2009 — Roofing Contractor Info

The Obama administration continued its push for a legal workforce Wednesday with an announcement that federal contractors and subcontractors would soon be required to verify that their employees are eligible to work in the U.S.

As of Sept. 8, the Federal government will award contracts only to companies that use the E-Verify system to determine their workers’ immigration status. Companies that also receive stimulus funds must also use E-Verify.

The Federal government is also revoking a provision in the law that sometimes required employers to fire workers whose Social Security numbers did not match those listed in the federal database.

Supporters of E-Verify said the expansion of the effort to federal contractors and subcontractors would help crack down on illegal immigrants in the workforce and could help stem the flow of migrants across the border. Critics said mandating the program for federal contractors would only slow the country’s economic recovery.

Randel Johnson, vice president of labor, immigration and employee benefits for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Wednesday that although some employers hadn’t had any problems with E-Verify, others had received inaccurate information from the government’s database.

“It should be rolled out slowly and tested rather than being applied to the employer community immediately,” he said.

Read the full LA Times article.

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  1. Brittancus on July 10, 2009 10:35 am

    Now that E-verify has not been sacrificed for the business community, it should be implemented across these United States. Right now rogue states like California a self branded–SANCTUARY STATE–should be forced by federal mandate on every government employee to be vetted by E-Verify. This is including every industry, business no matter who is on their payroll. There is no doubt in my mind that both the Federal, state and municipal governments have thousands of illegal workers, who are hiding out in plain site? A huge purge across the board will open jobs for documented legal residents and citizens and start the extraction process of foreign national by self-deportation. NOT JUST THE NEWEST EMPLOYEES, BUT EVERY WORKER WHO DRAWS A PAYCHECK? Remember that California business and contractors have had the luxury of hiring cheap labor, without any restrictions for decades.

    However the tide is turning finally within Washington and hopefully the insistence of –THE PEOPLE– drumming in their ears. The politicians have probably been stupefied by the barrage of irate voters calling for a permanent E-Verify adjoined to the Save Act. Under close scrutiny the people have demanded a double layer fence as originally designed by Rep. Duncan Hunter and upgrading E-verification, to enhance the search for illegal labor. The majority of liberal news desks, foundations, open border and free traders who don’t want their supply of cheap labor severed, have given no indication that errors in immigration status can be resolved in the Social Security local office. California should certainly be a goal of ICE enforcement, specifically Los Angeles County and counterpart San Francisco, whose Mayors, Judges and elected officers have taken it upon themselves to shield illegal immigrants.

    They have allowed easy access to Medi-Cal and a whole host of benefits, that was to support the bone fide population. No wonder the Great state is sinking under a $24. billion red ink deficit? State government used their devious influence to table Proposition 187, before being filed with the higher courts. We must not let down our guard, because once upon a time when there was no communications through the Internet, our politicians could easily stamp on our rights. There was no instant alarm bell of what legislation was secretly being discussed in Washington. Now we know what our elected officials are conniving behind our backs. That’s why the American public has stayed ignorant and not so happy over the years. We only found out about laws afterwards, when it was too late to fight enactment.

    We are already aware of a BLANKET AMNESTY being authored by Sen. Chuck Schumer, which will place upon the American people even more hardship in higher taxes to support illegal immigrants who have settled here. That is not even that is the main catastrophe? Although we are told that stricter immigration enforcement will be orchestrated , it will not stop the tens of millions who will swarm into America in the months to come? It will be like a human locust storm crossing our borders, in the hope of another AMNESTY? It is what the Council of Foreign Relations want? Unchecked, unfettered cheap labor as in their North American Union agenda. GOOGLE–the (CFR) and find their intentions?

    The results of a BLANKET AMNESTY will not just be the irreparable costs attributed to feeding millions of more people, government benefits. But it will submerge us in irreversible momentum towards OVERPOPULATION. From 305 million population–NOW–but an extra 135 million in 40 years. Read more at NUMBERSUSA, CAPSWEB AMERICANPATROL & FAIR for the facts. CALL YOUR LAWMAKERS NOW AT 202-224-3121.

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