Shame. eVerify all current and new workers, full-time, part-time, perm, temp, contract, day labor, everyone! Eliminate the work opportunity for illegal aliens. What does Massie think is the downside to this? We already have SSN, we already do I-9, W-2, and so forth. This does not add any further burden upon an employee. And it does not give the government any more information than it already has. What it does do is hold employers accountable to make sure they are only employing legal workers.
The ONLY reason to oppose E-Verify is to make it easier for unscrupulous employers to use wetback labor. And there are a gazillion of those. Time the existing law was enforced, and the support infrastructure brought up to current state-of-the-art.
It’s been a few years since I dealt with eVerify.
The rules were that you could only run someone after they were hired, I think it was within 3 days or so. You could not check an existing employee.
If the report came back bad you could not fire the person for 30 days to give them time to appeal. If they appealed, and didn’t just take off, you could not fire them until the appeal went though the process.
Someone gets hired. Comes back “dirty”. They’re fire proof for minimum one month. If they appeal, then it’s a work free job for about 3 to 6 months.
We found that having one of the guys walk in wearing a Border Patrol cap during the interview cut way down on the red tape.
You are correct stating that filling out a few forms is no real burden for prospective employees, but what you have pi$$ed off one too many FedGov officials and they decide to mark your SS number as deceased or some other flag that means that the SS number is invalid. No job for you!
The real issue is as stated: asking the FedGov for permission to apply for a job is another small step towards losing your freedoms.
But I agree with you. Any step that eliminates the ability of non-citizens to survive and function in the USA should be put in place. Hopefully the great Reset will wither and die.
Some a$$hole in government does not like me.
Puts me on a list.
E-verify is part of that list.
Now I can’t get a job.
Or draw social security.
Or use Medicare.
Just sayin.