Please visit http://www.altoe-verify.com

In your first article, you grossly exaggerated the length and difficulty of the online experience. Because you made no effort to qualify your comments as exaggeration, I can only conclude that you intended to deceive your readers.

It is obvious that you have a bias against verification and probably immigration laws in general. And that’s okay– differences of opinion is what makes the world go ’round. But let’s be intellectually honest about the E-Verify system. Take this from someone who uses the E-Verify program daily… it is incredibly easy.

Because of your bias, you are apparently likewise unable to understand the nuances of the so-called “discrimination” inherent in, yet allegedly prohibited by the system.

E-Verify recognizes that the employer is not a trained document analyst. It also recognizes that employment eligibility is a federally-imposed status. It has a bias toward the right to work and the overwhelming majority of individuals in this country who do legally hold that right. It therefore makes perfect sense for the employer to be required to hire pending authorization via E-Verify. Once authorization is denied, “discrimination” (through termination) is not only legal but required.

You are liable, however, if you have knowledge that a prospective employee is not authorized to work, yet you hire them anyway. If he comes to you and says, “I’m illegal!” then you better not hire him! But if he presents documents representing anything other than obvious forgery, participation in E-Verify takes the liability for verification off of you and puts it squarely on the federal government.

In other words… like the tutorial and test, the verification process itself requires minimal mental acuity and just a modicum of common sense.

Now, it may bother you that you might be “required” to hire someone only to fire them less than two weeks later but if you have a better solution, let’s hear it.

And “no immigration law at all” is not an option.

I’ve been out of the “labor” part of the business world for a very long time, but back in the day when we were estimating “overhead” for a project the rule of thumb was that every piece of paper handled cost $25.00 no matter the reason.

Lots of jobs require a physical examination and maybe a drug test–the last time I paid for that myself (driving a truck a year or two ago) that cost about $125.

All of the people to whom the new-hire talks during the hiring process is on salary.

Training and indoctrination are done by people on-payroll who are _not_ doing “productive work” directly toward the bottom line.

Those are just the things that come quickly to mind.

Tada!

Are you still required to pay someone their wages earned up to the point you fire them if they were working illegally?