Lawmakers’ solution to I-9 troubles: Electronic fingerprints
August 17, 2009 by Sam NarisiPosted in: HR Tech, Immigration, In this week's e-newsletter - Tech
Seems like E-Verify isn’t strong enough for some members of Congress. Their plan: adding more technology to the system.
The problem: E-Verify doesn’t guard against identity theft, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) said at a recent Senate subcommittee hearing. All the system does is make sure a name matched the social security number assigned to it.
Nothing stops an unauthorized worker from obtaining a SSN and its matching name.
Schumer’s proposed solution: require that the system verifies someone’s identity by using a “specific biometric identifier,” such as a fingerprint. He plans to introduce relevant legislation in the fall.
The debate is just the latest in the fight over E-Verify. In the meantime, federal contractors are preparing for a requirement to start using the system on Sept. 8 — though that same rule has already been delayed several times.
Tags: biometrics, e-verify, Schumer
August 17th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
If there was ever a time for a national referendum–THEN THIS IS DEFINITELY IT? Of all the issues the ones that will influence the American peoples economy, culture, language and society for decades to come, is Health care and illegal immigration. Neither political party, special interest lobbyists nor anybody else should be able to use their influence the running of our country. The United States–VOTER–should have the last word, not corrupt members of the Democratic leadership, the Republican minority party and certainly not La Raza or ACLU, US Chamber of Commerce, Council of Foreign Relations, Cato Institute, billionaire George Soros, Ford Foundation and a multitude of self interest groups. In health care the insurance companies have used their political currency, to weaken any prospect of a Canadian or European style public health care option.
The rest of these despicable organizations want the free flow of cheap labor that is already swarming across our nation, even though we are in a deep recession and millions of US citizens and legal residence are jobless. As I speak 1.5 million new immigrants entered America and that’s not counting the illegal aliens who extract from taxpayers everyday. Our politicians can no longer demand of the people, to pay for foreign national health care, when they cannot afford it for their own families? How many more years are the people to be dictated to the power of profiteering insurance companies? How many decades must taxpayers is forced to pay for illegal immigrants and families, who have already broken our laws of sovereignty and expect to be rewarded with another blanket AMNESTY.
How can we assume our legislators to honor the “Rule of Law”, when they have already stone-walled us over the 1986 immigration enforcement law? Millions of loyal Americans who have already commanded E-Verify extraction tool in the workplace (section of the SAVE ACT) 287 G police enforcement, no match letter and the ICE raids of illegal immigrant. But we must maintain the bombardment if you want a health care public option choice? Whether you want to keep on supporting the impoverished, unschooled of foreign nations that skirt our laws? CALL YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES FOR WHAT YOU WANT AT 202-224-3121? NOT WHAT THE SPECIAL INTEREST LOBBY HAS PAID FOR? Read about the trillions to be spent on giving AMNESTY to illegal immigrants at the Heritage Foundation. GOOGLE more facts on the web, or search for the truth at NUMBERSUSA.
Observe this PETITION to STOP any health care to illegal immigrants at: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/nohealthcareforillegals
August 18th, 2009 at 11:35 am
So . . .is the Senator going to provide for every company the technology that we will need to be able to finger print every employee?
August 18th, 2009 at 11:52 am
One word – UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 18th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Wouldn’t it be cheeper and easier if we implanted microchips like we do our pets. This could be done at birth. The comment then is a black market for chips. I don’t think finger printing is the answer.
August 18th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Considering that existng biometric readers that use finger prints are so easy to get around that secure government sites are abandoning them for corneal readers, this is stupid, expensive and won’t work.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I know ICE or HSA use some kind of biometrics already for legal immigration candidates though I don’t know what its supposed to protect against. My wife had to jump through several hoops over a years time to get her permanent resident card. It would seem there is the infrastructure in place for a lot of this protection. However, I think it is mostly a waste of time and assets if they ignore the illegal alien flow. Shut off the illegal alien flow and it will much easier to deal with those making the effort to come here legally. It would also benefit the country much more as a whole.
August 18th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
The article says that all that has to match is a name and social security number. That is not true!! E-verify provides a picture that must match the employee and the picture on his ID EXACTLY. We had a situation where it did not so we were unable to hire that employee.