U.S. pushes E-verify for hires

Sounds like a good idea to me. If we are ever to stem the massive flow of illegals, we must find ways to keep them from hiding in plain sight.
FROM THE WASHINGTONTIMES.COM:
U.S. pushes E-verify for hires

September 25, 2007

By Stephen Dinan - Few federal agencies are using the government's own employment-verification system designed to prevent hiring illegal aliens, with just the Department of Homeland Security and a few other scattered offices having signed up.

That all changes next month, when the federal government takes the lead in trying to prove the system is user-friendly and works. Under a new directive, every new federal hire is required to be checked against E-Verify, the new name for a decade-old system known as the Basic Pilot Program that has become the backbone of many companies' hiring process as they try to weed out illegal aliens.

The newly re-branded system gets a formal public release at a press conference today at the headquarters for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), with officials hoping to prove to businesses the system is running, is easy to use and can help them avoid trouble from an expected crackdown on employers.

"The expectations for the program just keep exploding, and we want to meet those expectations," said Gerri Ratliff, who heads USCIS' verification division and who talked with The Washington Times about E-Verify earlier this month.
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