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Proposed Federal Laws Could Sweep Away Low-Wage Workers

By Diane Solomon
Metro Silicon Valley | May 29, 2008
The Shuler-Tancredo SAVE Act would require all employers to use E-Verify to check the legal status of their employees. Presently E-Verify is a free system that employers voluntarily use to check new hires. Critics point out that it has been shown to have serious shortcomings, the most problematic being the tendency to deliver "false positive" matches, declaring citizens in good standing to be illegal.
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