Anna Gorman, LA Times, 7/9/2009
Beginning Sept. 8, the government will award contracts only to companies that enroll in E-Verify, an online program that uses federal databases to check whether employees are in the country legally and authorized to work. Businesses receiving money under the federal stimulus program also will be subjected to the rule, adopted under President George W. Bush but never implemented.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced plans to throw out a rule that would have allowed the federal government to use mismatched Social Security data to find illegal immigrants in the workplace.
Filed under: Migration and Migrants, Politics and Elections, Security and the Rule of Law | Tagged: Border, E-Verify, Immigrants, Immigration, Immigration reform, Janet Napolitano
