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Romney Calls for Employment Verification System that Already Exists
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Dec 19, 2007 10:03am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, December 18, 2007 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney suggested there was no way a landscaping company that worked for him could have known its employees were illegal aliens even though the federal government has an employer verification system that any employer in America, on a voluntary basis, can use for free.
And while the system already exists and is in use, Romney called for creating one during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. A Romney spokesman said the governor meant to say he wanted to make the system mandatory for all businesses.
The federal government's employment verification program has been in place in some form since 1997 -- first as a pilot program -- and was expanded nationally in 2005 on a voluntary basis.
It is called E-Verify and should "absolutely" eliminate any excuses employers have for not knowing the legal status of a worker, said Veronica Valdes, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. |
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