The federal crackdown on illegal hiring is a similar mishmash of hastily erected rules, including much-criticized systems of checking workers' names against error-plagued databases.
The compromise bill promises some 6,000 extra border guards, hundreds of miles of new fencing and a huge database for checking workers' legal status.Is all this policing and picketing worth it?
States have passed overly punitive laws to revoke the licenses of businesses caught hiring the undocumented and to force employers to participate in E-Verify, the deeply flawed federal system for checking workers' documents.
Examples of these measures include: the creation of public policy, education of workers and management about the risks, promoting smoking cessation, checking workers for early signs of COPD, use of respirators, and dust control.
To send spies to shipyards across Britain to check workers were not sabotaging vessels destined for Chile.
The law will force all city employers to check workers' documents with E-Verify, a federal database.
The businesses say bills to force employers to check workers' legal status are redundant, costly and anticompetitive.
One prohibits city and county governments from enacting laws forcing employers to use E-Verify, the error-prone federal hiring database, to check workers' immigration status.
E-Verify is a voluntary program in which employers can check workers' names against databases kept by the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.
Citing government estimates of high error rates in a pilot program that checks workers' documents, the chamber issued an internal document estimating that if some current plans were adopted, such a program could cost $11.7 billion for government, employees and workers.
The state's favorite son Republican senator, Marco Rubio, seems only too happy to duck immigration issues, and the Republican-controlled State Senate refused to pass a bill this spring with a tough requirement on employers to check workers' immigration status.
