>>Figuring out if they are in the US legally is another matter.<<
Personally, for the safety of my children, I would spend the bucks to find out.
Perhaps if you don’t have the money, you should not be hiring “homeworkers”.
Hear about this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2681673/posts
She had references.
My kids are old enough to take care of themselves, and out of the house.
Perhaps if you don’t have the money, you should not be hiring “homeworkers”.
It's not about money. It's about being actually able to do it. Have you even tried to use E-Verify?
You are so busy jumping to conclusions, you aren't even considering that there are legitimate reasons why the typical individual can't comply with this kind of mandate.
My housekeeper was referred to me by a friend, after she had working for him for years. Is she in the country legally? Since she grew up in Oklahoma and her skin is fairer than mine, she most likely is. But do I know for sure? No.
Had I instead contracted with a housekeeping service, they would likely have sent me someone that didn't speak English. And it would have been a different person every week. And I wouldn't have been able to trust them. I know all these things because my former housekeeper worked for one of those services for a short time. She left and went out on her own because she was only paid minimum wage and the service charged 3-4 times that to customers.
I contracted with a lawn service on the same basis: a recommendation from a neighbor for whom they worked for years. Do I know that they verify the citizenship or legal status of every person? No. Do I care? No, because they never set foot in the house.
The point of this exemption is to avoid imposing a heavy burden on individuals that have person-to-person contractual relationships to provide service in and around the home, and concentrate instead on employers that have the resources to verify employee's citizenship or resident status.
As someone else has pointed out, this can be abused by the day laborers that hang out at Home Depot -- or in my case, at a center set up by the city specifically for that purpose. But, rather than hassling individual homeowners, periodic visits to these locations to check on the people waiting for jobs would be a lot more efficient.