With E-Verify, too many errors to expand its use?

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New York - Two hours after Fernando Tinoco started his new job at a meatpacking plant in Chicago, he was escorted by security guards to the office and fired.

The reason: Company officials had entered his Social Security number into the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify system. It's a mostly voluntary program designed to give employers a fast, easy way to check a person's immigration status. Mr. Tinoco's information came back as a "tentative non-confirmation," meaning that he may not be a citizen. He was shown the door.

But Tinoco is a citizen and has been since 1989. Immediately after his firing a few months ago, he went to a Social Security office and got a letter confirming his legal status. It was too late.

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President Bush's recent executive order mandating that all federal contractors use E-Verify and legislation pending in Congress that would make the program mandatory for all employers nationwide have heightened concerns among critics that thousands of legal Americans will be unfairly denied jobs. That's because E-Verify relies mainly on the Social Security database, which the Government Accountability Office has found to be fraught with errors. Studies have also shown that almost half of employers who are already using E-Verify are not abiding by rules designed to protect citizens like Tinoco.

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[gateley]

1. Just another example of how Homeland Security is harming our citizens. nt

[peacetalksforall]

2. Automation is not keeping up with fascism. Curious - I thought big

corporations profited from illegal immigration? True or false? Even though a big corproation might nog hire an illegal - their smaller suppliers and the smaller suppliers suppliers might, thus making more profit for the big one. Fiction? I thought immigration was a political game - make points with the ignornat bigots while secretly hiring illegals for profits?

Perhaps they should hire some immigrants to get the database straightened out.

Dis-reality rules.

[Jivenwail]

3. Please don't flame me...but

I work for a small disabled veteran owned small business (federal contractor) in NOVA. We are well aware of the Bush ordered use of E-Verify but it is not yet "law" - contractors are being told we will probably be forced to move to this system by June 09 when the current, revised I9 forms expire. We do not voluntarily use E-Veirfy - at least not yet. We still use the paper I-9 to verify ability to work in the US. Additionally E-Verify may be going the way of the dinosaur (so to speak) and replaced with national database system yet to be identified by DHS. We don't plan to move to the database system (whatever it may be) until such time that it becomes law for contractors to do so.

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4. No flame here. DHS and ICE admits the database contain errors. nt