Judge upholds Carcieri’s worker verification plan
Published: April 6, 2009
PROVIDENCE—A Rhode Island judge has upheld a key element of Gov. Don Carcieri’s executive order on immigration last year.
Superior Court Judge Mark Pfeiffer ruled Friday that Carcieri had the authority to require certain state agencies, contractors and vendors to use the federal E-Verify database, a system that lets employers make sure new hires are legally allowed to work in the United States.
The Rhode Island branch of the American Civil Liberties Union and others challeged the new rule and Carcieri’s use of an executive order to change the state’s purchasing regulations.
Carcieri said in a statement Monday he was “extremely pleased” with Pfeiffer’s decision.
Steven Brown, executive director of the state’s ACLU branch, said his group expects to appeal the ruling.
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E-Verify is simple, free, Web-based system that works by electronically comparing new employee information taken from the Form I-9. It works, and maybe that’s why the open border zealots have amassed against the application ? Opponents of E-Verify have resorted to charges that it is full of errors, when in truth it has an average a 99.5 success rate. More than 425 million records in the Social Security Administration’s database and more than 60 million records in the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration data base can then be verified.
In March E-verify was further enhanced by using a picture tool that helps patriotic businesses to identify citizens and legal residents workers. It allows an employer to compare identical photos – the worker’s photograph on the EAD or green card against the image stored in USCIS’ databases, which contains nearly 15 million images of individual documents. The tool is designed to help an employer determine whether the document presented reasonably relates to the individual presenting it and contains a valid photo.
Typos and similar problems are cured on line, so legal workers usually only have problem only if they changed their names or citizenship status—but failed to inform Social Security of the change. Others have to do something more to establish that they are lawfully authorized to work by approaching the SSA. While certain individuals do nothing—disappearing into the woodwork. It works! So—THE PEOPLE—should make it a permanent addition to our arsenal against illegal aliens stealing jobs of Americans. If a business hires illegal labor and have not used E-verify, they should be subject to severe penalties. Two legislators have remained instrumental in trying to dismantle E-Verify, the REAL ID act, police enforcement (247(g) and ICE raids. Sen. Harry Reid and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Remind your Senators and Congressman—who they work for? Washington switchboard. 202-224-3121 Reid’s Carson Office: 775-882-7343/ Vegas: 702-388-5020
House Speaker Pelosi: 202-225-0100 / San Francisco: 415 556-4862
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