Federal E-Verify law would mean major changes for US employers

[Disir]

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Only a handful of states require all employers to screen workers to make sure they are in the country legally, but that could change soon.

Spurred by the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, Congress is set to debate a national E-Verify mandate that would require every U.S. employer to use the federal online service to screen all new hires and for the first time allow the screening of current employees.

Seven states in the South (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee) and two in the West (Arizona and Utah) already require private employers to use E-Verify. But enforcement has been inconsistent, largely because state officials can’t access E-Verify records to make sure employers are checking new hires. Advocates for the system say a federal mandate likely would boost compliance across the country.

“It’s cumbersome for states to know whether employers are actually complying,” said Madeline Zavodny, an economics professor at Georgia’s Agnes Scott College who has studied the issue.

Employers in states that mandate the use of E-Verify are more likely to screen applicants. Between October 2016 and June 2017, 70 percent of all hires in the South were screened with E-Verify, compared to only 39 percent in the Northeast, where no states require E-Verify, according to a Stateline analysis of screening data from E-Verify and federal hiring data for the same period.

Nationally, 57 percent of jobs are now screened with E-Verify, up from half in 2015 and about 30 percent in 2010.

But a study of seven of the nine E-Verify states released earlier this month by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas suggests that state mandates have had mixed results. (Support for the study was provided by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which also funds Stateline.) The study did not include Louisiana or Tennessee, because those states have allowed businesses to use screening methods other than E-Verify.
Federal E-Verify law would mean major changes for US employers

Yeah, because if it isn't mandated it doesn't get done.

 

[JoeMoma]

Require E-verify and require students to be here legally to attend public school and there will be no need for a wall.

 

[Darkwind]

Require E-verify and require students to be here legally to attend public school and there will be no need for a wall.

No, they supplement each other.

 

[JoeMoma]

Require E-verify and require students to be here legally to attend public school and there will be no need for a wall.

No, they supplement each other.

There would be no need for a supplement.....but if a wall makes you feel better.....

 

[Darkwind]

Require E-verify and require students to be here legally to attend public school and there will be no need for a wall.

No, they supplement each other.

There would be no need for a supplement.....but if a wall makes you feel better.....

So, if we built 1,000 nuclear power plants, there would be no need for solar or wind power. Or would we say that they supplement each other?

In other words, doing both is great then its sum.

 

[TNHarley]

Require E-verify and require students to be here legally to attend public school and there will be no need for a wall.

Public school is a big incentive that should be dealt with

 

[JoeMoma]

Require E-verify and require students to be here legally to attend public school and there will be no need for a wall.

No, they supplement each other.

There would be no need for a supplement.....but if a wall makes you feel better.....

So, if we built 1,000 nuclear power plants, there would be no need for solar or wind power. Or would we say that they supplement each other?

In other words, doing both is great then its sum.

Yes I suppose a wall would be a supplement, but I don't believe it would be needed. If enacting e-verify and prohibiting illegals from attending school reduces illegal immigration by 99%, then it would be unnecessary to spend billions (or perhaps a trillion) to build and maintain a wall to effect the remaining one percent. Of course if Mexico is going to pay for the wall, we may as well do it.

 

[JoeMoma]

Require E-verify and require students to be here legally to attend public school and there will be no need for a wall.

No, they supplement each other.

There would be no need for a supplement.....but if a wall makes you feel better.....

So, if we built 1,000 nuclear power plants, there would be no need for solar or wind power. Or would we say that they supplement each other?

In other words, doing both is great then its sum.

They would supplement each other, but that supplementation would not be needed.