Staff Report
Published Sept. 8, 2009
Starting today federal contracts will include a requirement that certain prime contractors and subcontractors use the online E-Verify system to check employees’ authorization to work in the United States.
The rule applies to contracts for work that will be performed in the United States, have a value of $100,000 or more and will take 120 days or more to complete. Subcontractors on an applicable federal contract also fall under the rules if their work is valued at $3,000 or more.
E-Verify is a free Web-based system operated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration that allows employers to confirm documentation that employees submit as required by the federal I-9 form.
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Contractors must check the eligibility of all employees hired during a contract term, whether they work on the contract or not, and current employees who work under the federal contract in the United States.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is seeking an emergency order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to delay implementation but it appears unlikely to be granted. Ongoing contracts with a federal agency may be amended to include the verification requirement. Find more details on the rule changes here.
Applicable contracts awarded using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act fall under the new requirement. Contracts for products that are available commercially “off-the-shelf” are exempt from the rule.
South Carolina laws requiring new employment verification procedures for employers of 100 or more took effect on July 1. Under state law, businesses have the option of using E-Verify or checking certain other documents, including drivers’ licenses. The law mandates the same for smaller businesses starting July 1, 2010.
Read more about the implementation and enforcement of S.C. immigration laws in the Sept. 14 print edition of the Charleston Regional Business Journal.
Don't let opponents suffocate E-verify, by buying our politicians.
Slow as it might seem E-Verification given a chance to perform, will extract illegal immigrants from the working positions and replace them with American workers. Just like earlier ICE raids foreigners were removed from poultry plants, packing industries and lines of US workers took their places. Those workers who believe they have been wronged can easily rectify this situation at a Social Security agency? But the open border lobby will not mention that way to resolve the problem? Only those individuals, who realize they can no longer fool human resources and employers, will not venture into a government realm. Now that the federal courts have overwhelmed the special interest lobbyists, thousands of jobs offered by government contracts, will overtime remove the illegal worker stigma of those contractors and subcontractors, who have used cheap labor for decades, stealing jobs from Americans.
Whistle blowers can connect with the IRS at there HOT-LINE 1-800-829-0433 GOOGLE their website! The IRS is not kind to employers that seek to elude taxes, pay under the table for illegal activity in any place of work. THERE COULD ALSO BE A REWARD WITH A HEAVY FINE OR PRISON SENTENCE FOR THOSE WHO DON'T COMPLY. ICE informants also have a hot-line to contact with information this agency. Nor have we stepped from the pro-illegal worker quagmire yet, as Democrats and many Republicans will use any blockade that halts millions of impoverished people from coming to America. Stepping stones are already there, including the under funded single strand border barrier and not the originally planned two-tier system?
Fading ICE raids on businesses and the altering of the 287 G regular police enforcement and so weakening the powers of arrest? E-Verify only has the power if every business is required to use it throughout the United States? Without any breather we must maintain an aggravating bombardment of our politicians at 202-224-3121. Tell them you want a permanent, all encompassing E-Verify for new and long time workers and insist they do not rescind the 1986 Immigration laws. Positive amendments for US workers, not the slow overhaul for bringing into our nation more destitute people to be exploited by millions of reprehensible companies. If you are sympathetic towards a public option health care for every American, this cannot be established by allowing illegal immigrants to tap into the system?
Their must be certain lawful compliance that identifies US citizens and permanent residents, who enter the system but also dismisses foreign nationals. Any second immigration reform BLANKET AMNESTY legislation would automatically give acceptance to millions of legalized people already here, bankrupting any health care agenda. MORE FACTS TO READ AT NUMBERSUSA & JUDICIAL WATCH.
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