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Fired Hotel Workers Challenge E-Verify Use
Produced by Chip Mitchell on Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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Former Red Roof Inn housekeeper María Cervantes and her attorney, Christopher Williams, file her complaint at the Illinois Department of Labor. (Chip Mitchell/WBEZ) |
Immigrants fired by two suburban Chicago businesses are testing an Illinois law that sets the nation’s toughest limits on verifying eligibility for employment.
Systems like E-Verify tap companies into federal databases to check an employee’s eligibility to work in the United States. The systems have become key immigration-enforcement tools during President Barack Obama’s administration.
But some business groups and labor unions say the results are inaccurate too often.
Six Latin American immigrants Tuesday afternoon filed the first complaints under a new Illinois law that restricts the verification to new hires only. One of the six worked in Bolingbrook for a staffing firm until September.
The others, all women, worked at a Red Roof Inn in Hoffman Estates until this spring. They include María Cervantes, a single mother of four in Carpentersville.
CERVANTES: Ya después de años...
After years on the job, Cervantes says, it’s not fair.
A Red Roof Inn statement accuses the workers of providing false Social Security numbers and says this justified their dismissal. The Ohio-based hotel chain says it requires all employees to sign a consent form allowing background checks.
The workers’ attorney, Christopher Williams, counters that employee consent is no justification for a company to violate the law.
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DaveMor // Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 2:27 PM
BOO HOO!! What about the lives you have ruined by stealing their id's to get you that job? Why isn't anyone upset about that? Pack up your illegal family and go back to where you came, and apply for citizenship the LEGAL way!!
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M.F., S. Fco Bay Area // Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 2:41 PM
This is a most incomplete report.
The objection to the E-Verify law is that the DB it uses is incomplete and includes lots of errors. The result is that reports that the SS # is inaccurate are themselves often inaccurate.
This particular lawsuit appears to be about the employers violating the requirement to check NEW hires in E-Verify by checking ALL their foreign looking employees against E-Verify. This says nothing about whether the reports rec'd from E-Verify were correct or not.
Did these people actually have work permits, the special work visas and E-Verify report they didn't? That's the real question.
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Dennis, Carpentersville // Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 4:48 PM
Excuse me, does her children get free meals at school? How does she pay the babysitter? Where is the rotten husband, or are the children illegal in the eye of God too?
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Rebecca Shaw, Lincoln Park // Thursday, October 22, 2009 @ 9:18 PM
E-Verify is a program run by DHS (CIS) and SSA. The article refers to programs, plural. There is really nothing else like it, unless an employer wants to step it up a notch and sign up for IMAGE (http://www.ice.gov/partners/opaimage/) When employers sign up for E-Verify, by contract they agree to use it for NEW hires only. It is not used on previously hired employees or to check the employment eligibility of all employees. This is a national program. What is the Illinois law that is involved? It sounds like the employer came by information about the employee's lack of work authorization in an incorrect/illegal manner and should be called on it.
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Ahwatukee T, Phoenix, AZ // Sunday, October 25, 2009 @ 2:21 PM
@MF: Please stop repeating the misinformation about E-Verify innacuracy. The number of errors is FAR lower than you imply:
http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20091025/OPINION/910250318/1050/PREPSSPORTS
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Brittanicus, Indianapolis, IN // Sunday, October 25, 2009 @ 9:07 PM
Sen.Harry Reid D-NV, Nancy Pelosi D-CA, are the drum majors who failed in their objective to stifle the E-Verify law, as continued public outcry positively terminated any chance of that? E-Verification is a sophisticated tool to indirectly deport the 20 to 30 million plus from America? What’s the good of hanging around, if you are going to be verified through a government data base? Simply put! It has a self-deportation mechanism. US workers should push to make it mandatory for every business operation, so that if caught employing illegal foreigners they should go to prison. Right now the battle lines have been drawn between--THE AMERICAN WORKERS Vs. A MULTITUDE OF PARASITE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS AND THE OPEN BORDER LOBBYISTS. The public need to know that Opponents have a vested interest in nullifying E-Verify, so they can resume hiring discount illegal labor
The feral business organizations have been unable to state that E-Verify is racist or profiling by religion or any other adverse criteria, as this piece of software is unable to discriminate In previous court appearances the ACLU, Council of Foreign Relations, the Associated Builders and Contractors, the Society for Human Resource Management, the American Council on International Personnel, and the HR Policy Association, and a mishmash of open border groups has stumped themselves for some way to delay implementation of the E-Verify program? The 15 million unemployed citizens and legal residents now know who are the enemy that we are up against? The American public must stop the demand for the unceasing influx of impoverished labor for these companies?
Mandatory implementation of E-Verify should not just for federal contractors/subcontractors are should be propagated for everybody who wields a wrench, a pen, a computer or anything else in the diversified working space? In other words--IT SHOULD BE FOR EVERY WORKER, MANAGER, and SUPERVISOR OR EXECUTIVE IN THIS COUNTRY? The magnet is businesses that draw the illegal cheap job-hunters across the borders into the clutches of exploiting employers. I have heard from countless US workers, who have been dropped to make way for cheaper labor in every category of jobs, including higher career positions. Even day labor sites such as Home Depots, Lowes or anywhere these people congregate should be also verified through an E-Verify portable application. Small contractors or anybody who needs to hire illegal labor should be identified, just as large businesses are exposed by ICE agents.
American employers should--ONLY--be able to solicit for highly skilled tradesman and proven scientists and engineers, under the eye of government labor departments. Europe has adopted a method of selecting specialty workers through a points system that is also being used by other industrialized nations.
United Kingdom first introduced a point’s based system in 2002 called the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP). Immigrants can come to the British Islands under this scheme without a sponsor or previous job offer if they can score enough points based on age, education, and past earnings. Australia uses its General Skilled Migration program to attract migrants from across the globe to help alleviate labor shortages, both in trade occupations and highly skilled professional occupations. Canada Potential immigrants can score points based on previous education (both University and Trade school qualifications). New Zealand immigration authorities assess immigrants chances of success based on their occupation and whether it conforms to what the country deems to be future growth areas and sectors experiencing labor shortages. Other countries, such as Germany and France, require a job offer and other stringent requirements for migrants from outside the European Union.
American workers have been paying a price for at least two decades, because thousands of companies had resisted paying for health care? Instead that when maimed workers especially in manual forms of labor are carted to the nearest emergency hospital for treatment. The outcome being the employer is resolved from any responsibility and the taxpayer absorbed the medical debt. WHEN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FORCE OUR INCOMPETENT POLITICIANS TO INTRODUCE E-VERIFY AS A PERMANENT ADDITION TO THE IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT ARSENAL, ILLEGAL ALIENS WITHOUT JOBS WILL LEAVE IN DROVES. But their must be substantial penalties for not using E-Verify, such as heavy fines and prison for many violations.
Internal ICE enforcement on a grand scale must become a daily event, as they investigate violations within the working communities. ONE CERTAIN WAY TO HALT THE ILLEGAL ALIEN INVASION, IS BY CHANGING THE CIVIL LAW TO CRIMINAL AS A CLASS ONE FELONY FOR ENTERING AMERICA WITHOUT PERMISSION?
A new poll by Zogby International has found people across our border believe an amnesty that would grant legal status to illegal immigrants would prompt more people to enter the U.S. illegally, the Center for Immigration Studies (CRS) stated. Another new survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports reveals that 56% of Americans say that federal immigration policies encourage illegal immigration, and 64% believe that local law enforcement should conduct raids in places where illegal aliens gather to find work. Only 19% opposed the raids compared to 24% who opposed such raids back in April.
THIS IS THE MAJOR REASON WE NEED A PERMANENT E-VERIFY, FOR EVERY PERSON WHO IS EMPLOYED? NOT JUST FOR A THREE YEAR PERIOD?
Then we have Representative Luis V. Gutierrez, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), a Democrat from Chicago, has been on the road most weekends since last December trying to beckon people towards forging a favorable immigration reform package. However, it seems this bill ever becoming a reality is just not sane, while millions of Americans are without work or given up hoping to find a job. VIEW THE LIST OF LAWMAKERS WHO HAVE SIGNED ON TO COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM AT http://tinyurl.com/CIR-letter-to-POTUS. THESE CONGRESSMAN/ WOMEN WANT TO STEAL YOUR JOB AND GIVE IT TO ILLEGAL ALIENS? KEEP THEM EMBOSSED IN YOUR MEMORY AND UNSEAT THEM WHEN THEY COME FORWARD FOR RE-ELECTION
Call and blast your Senators and Representative at 202-224-3121 in Washington. Overwhelming the switchboard with your calls, as it is having an outstanding effect of--MILLIONS of angry voters. THEY ARE BEGINNING TO LISTEN AND REACT? INFORM THEM TO DO YOUR DUTY OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES ON RE-ELECTION DAY? Tell them you want PERMANENT E-Verify for--EVERY WORKER, a secure double layer fence and--REAL--enforcement against sanctuary state policies. Read undisclosed facts, statistics and lawmakers immigration enforcement grades of politicians at NUMBERSUSA. UNEARTH the corruption in government at JUDICIAL WATCH. Your voice is needed to halt OVERPOPULATION and American Worker survival. Demand NO-MORE-AMNESTIES. They should--GO--home and come through the front door, like millions of honest legal immigrants? Report any irregularities in your workplace to ICE. Be a patriotic American, Whistle-Blower and inform of illegal activity to ICE. Your job--COULD BE NEXT?
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