News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

House panel OKs hiring sanctions

Employer obligation to verify worker legal status removed from bill

Mary Jo Pitzl
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 21, 2007 12:00 AM

Arizona employers would be punished if they knowingly hire illegal workers, a legislative panel decided Tuesday in approving a bill that drew solid opposition from the business community and Democrats.

But how an illegal hire would be determined and investigated remained fuzzy after the House Government Committee changed many of the provisions in House Bill 2779.

Lawmakers removed a requirement that employers use a federal program to verify that their hires are in the country legally and have a valid Social Security number. Investigators would rely on the one-page I-9 form that employers require of all new hires. It asks for basic information but does not require employers to verify that the information is accurate.

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