I've made this point before and usually the antis come out screaming that I'm making things up and E-Verify is perfect. But you've been warned.

Incidentally, I am not against continuing E-Verify. I just want to see a system set up where a worker protesting the findings will have the right to continue working until the matter is resolved once and for all. Same for no match letters under the new rule. And for those who think I'm wrong regarding the protection of workers, the worker is only protected until DHS issues a final non-confirmation. But this is hardly adequate. An American worker should entitled to make his or her case in front of an independent judge. For those who think unlawfully present immigrants will take advantage, common sense says that someone illegally in the US is hardly likely to put themselves in such obvious jeopardy of detection and deportation.

The libertarian Harper continues his series of articles criticizing E-Verify claiming it will cost billions to make it work properly and cost Americans dearly when it comes to privacy rights.

The Phoenix New Times says this bust in March 2007 was the first work site enforcement bust by ICE in Arizona. Office manager Carol Hill was this week sentenced to serve two months in prison followed by house arrest for a year and then 36 months of supervised release.

The Justice Department press release indicates that Hill was convicted of harboring illegal aliens for profit and knowingly hiring at least 10 illegal aliens with a 12 month period. Hill also received a $10,000 fine.

The Greenville News reports that 12 workers arrested in the Columbia Farms raid have plead guilty to immigration and identity theft charges.

KTAR, a Phoenix television station, reports that employers in the state are less concerned about illegal immigration now than last year. The station is reporting on a survey that also showed that nearly 75% of employers also indicated that the new sanctions law is having little effect on their business and that of the 25% remainder, half reported the effect was positive and half negative.

Of course, in a down economy, 12% of a state's employers is arguably a very high number.

The charges include

• conspiring to harbor illegal aliens for profit,
• harboring illegal aliens for profit,
• conspiring to commit document fraud,
• aiding and abetting document fraud,
  
• bank fraud and
• aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft

Unions, immigration groups, civil rights organizations and the US Chamber of Commerce are all weighing in against the Oklahoma immigration statute that many consider one of the nation's toughest.

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November 21st is the date of the hearing.

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From DHS:

A New Bedford manufacturer awarded almost $230 million in contracts over the past five years pled guilty today along with its president to various charges alleging that they hired illegal aliens, helped to shield them from detection, failed to pay them full overtime, and fraudulently misled the government, all in an effort to maximize profits on a series of lucrative military contracts.

United States Attorney Michael J. Sullivan and Bruce M. Foucart, special agent in charge for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's office of investigations in Boston, working in close partnership with the Insurance Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts, U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General and Wage and Hour Division, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Office of Inspector General, Social Security Administration, Office of Investigations - Boston Field Division and the Department of Defense's Criminal Investigative Service, announced today that Michael Bianco, Inc. (MBI), and its president and principal shareholder Francesco Insolia, 51, of Pembroke, Massachusetts, pled guilty to several charges contained in a Superseding Information.

MBI pled guilty to: Eighteen specific counts of knowingly hiring illegal aliens on various dates from between early 2004 and late 2006, a time during which the company grew from less than a hundred to more than six hundred employees; helping to harbor and shield illegal aliens from detection from authorities from 2004 to 2007; fraudulently misrepresenting social security numbers and committing mail fraud when it submitted social security numbers to the IRS and Social Security Administration knowing that many of the numbers had to be false given that many of the company's employees were illegal aliens and; failing to pay many employees overtime from 2005 to 2007.

It's not just states that are considering employer sanctions laws. More and more local governments are considering such measures. The latest is Cherokee County, Georgia where the Board of Commissioners will soon debate a measure that would revoke the business licenses of employers knowingly hiring illegally present workers. Local officials are monitoring litigation around the country to see if the proposal is likely to be upheld by the courts.

Nebraska Senator Brad Ashford, chairman of the legislature's Judiciary Committee is pushing for his state to study mandating E-Verify for employers.

There are not very many immigration measures on ballots around the country tomorrow, but Arizona voters will decide on a referendum that many legislators around the country will be watching. The measure would add a number of business-friendly changes to one of the nation's toughest immigration laws. Under Arizona law, employers can lose their business licenses if they are found to have hired illegally present workers. The referendum would tighten standards for reporting violations and for proving cases and it would strengthen the safe harbors available to those complying with the law. Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has remained neutral on the measure, though she recently signed legislation passed by the legislature making these changes. The referendum would make it impossible for lawmakers to reverse that legislation without a new voter referendum.

The Deseret Morning News of Salt Lake City explores the question of whether E-Verify will eventually become mandatory for Utah employers.

Not a lot of people know about ICE's IMAGE program. The program stands for "ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers" and it is the agency's best practices program for companies that are seeking to set up practices that ICE deems to be the most likely to ensure a company's work force is legal and the company is complying with immigration lawyers. Only a few dozen employers have so far signed up and Hernan Rozemberg of the The San Antonio Express wanted to find out why.

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