States are Taking Matters into their Own Hands

Employers face increasing pressure to verify worker identity
States, with Arizona in the lead, are also going after employers for hiring practices, threatening to revoke business licenses if employers do not make a serious effort to verify their workers' identities.

Lawmakers' feelings mixed on immigration bill
Mississippi bill mandates that employers use the e-verify system, a free Internet database ran by the Department of Homeland Security in conjunction with the Social Security Administration, to check a potential employee's work eligibility.

Misspissippi Passes Employer Sanctions Bill Which Criminalizes Unlawful Employment
The Mississippi Employment Protection Act requires all employers in the state to use E-Verify.

SC Governor expressed concern about pitfall immigration bill
Gov. favors requiring private employers to check South Carolina driver's licenses, a new S.C. version of the I-9, or to use the online E-Verify system. He noted that five states already use E-Verify: Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Missouri and Georgia.

Measure targeting illegals shaped
The final version of South Carolina’s illegal immigration reform plan could be completed soon.

Missouri business groups fret over E-Verify bills
Businesses that don't use E-Verify and hire illegal immigrants would be punished more severely than those that do use the system.

Hearing Tuesday on Suffolk County, NY contractor law
Law that requires contractors doing business with the county to confirm employees' legal status.

UPS crackdown hits workers, spares business
A year after Washington state work-site raids, fully two-thirds of the 51 illegal immigrants arrested have either been deported or told to leave the country. But no charges have been brought against the employment agency that hired the immigrants or UPS, where they worked.