Here is the
short story.
Federal law (IRCA [Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986]) requires employers to verify the legal status of job applicants when hiring people. Common documents are driver’s licenses, passports, and birth certificates.
Federal law (IRCA [Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986]) requires employers to verify the legal status of job applicants when hiring people. Common documents are driver’s licenses, passports, and birth certificates.
The federal
government has a voluntary online verification system, called E-verify. You can
check your own eligibility there. It’s quick—a lot like a quick credit report
check.
Why isn’t it a
federal requirement? Because it has lots of false positives for unauthorized to
work. People who change last names when they marry or divorce come up as false
positives. So do people with hyphenated names or names with spaces, such as “De
Rosa.”
Many red
states require e-verify—and further, they impose serious criminal sanctions on
employers who violate the state immigration law.
In
Mississippi, the law requires e-verify. Stop and think: How did these companies
hire so many people if they were e-verified?
The state law
says:
“It shall be a felony for any
person to accept or perform employment for compensation knowing or in reckless
disregard that the person is an unauthorized alien with respect to employment…
Upon conviction, a violator
shall be subject to imprisonment in the custody of the Department of
Corrections for not less than one (1) year nor more than five (5) years, a fine
of not less than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) nor more than Ten Thousand Dollars
$10,000.00), or both.”
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Should someone
who recklessly or knowingly hires an unlawful alien be imprisoned for 1-5
years? That is a question for us to consider.
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