Burning Atlanta

This is bogus, "Sky is falling," fear mongering crap. The pro-criminals and plantation owners hate the idea that employers will screen illegals out of the job market.

Boo!!!

Washington — Forcing U.S. companies to use a government system to verify the legal status of employees would result in hundreds of thousands of citizens and legal residents being initially rejected for work, critics said Tuesday. My ass. Look, if your Social Security information wasn't right wouldn't you want to know about it and get it straightened out?

William Wright, a spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services, said that 92 percent of all queries are approved in less than five seconds. Of the remaining 8 percent, the vast majority are not contested, he said. Meaning they're probably illegals, meaning the system works. Also, not mentioned in the article is the fact that anyone whose information doesn't match has 90 days to get it straightened out.

Besides concerns about mismatches, critics said that an expansion of E-Verify would hurt small businesses that don't have the staff or technology to comply.

"Some small businesses would be forced to close their doors," said Jessica Johnson Bennett, government relations director at the Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors Association. TOTAL BULLSHIT. Do you have a computer? Are you online? Well, then you're set.