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Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), the Chair of the House Immigration Subcommittee, relays the story of how the Basic Pilot Program almost cost a key staffer employment:

During the hearing, Lofgren recounted a story about what happened to her new immigration counsel – Traci Hong. Hong, who came to the U.S. legally from Korea when she was 10, became a naturalized citizen in 1992 at age 22. Yet when she came to work for Lofgren's panel, which uses Basic Pilot to verify its staff's employment status, the database reported that she was not legally entitled to work in the U.S.

"We need a better system,'' said Lofgren, who pointed out even though Hong was able to straighten her case out, that workers who don't have a law degree and don't work for the chair of the immigration subcommittee might not find it easy to correct such an error. After the session, Hong told reporters that she had to make three trips to the Social Security Administration liaison office and to the House personnel office to get the issue of her work eligibility straightened out.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 7:27 PM

The STRIVE Act is the House's immigration reform bill. I've summarized Title 3, the employment verification section, to give you an idea of how this area of law will change if this bill is passed.

# posted by Greg Siskind @ 8:10 AM

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BASIC PILOT PROGRAM FAILS WITH COMMITTEE CHAIR

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