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Homeland Security Program Seen Failing to Catch Half of Unauthorized HiresThe Department of Homeland Security's controversial and much-touted E-Verify program might be failing to detect one out of two illegal workers whose employment authorizations are screened, outside consultants have told the agency.
Tens of thousands of companies participate in E-Verify, either voluntarily or as a condition of doing business with the government.
he Internet-based program checks information provided by new hires against Social Security Administration and Homeland Security databases to confirm they are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents of the country. An evaluation of E-Verify carried out for DHS by research group Westat found the program couldn't confirm whether information workers were presenting was their own, and, as a result, "many unauthorized workers obtain employment by committing identity fraud that cannot be detected by E-Verify," Westat told the department. Westat put the "inaccuracy rate for unauthorized workers" at about 54%.
Write to Louise Radnofsky at louise.radnofsky@dowjones.com and Miriam Jordan at miriam.jordan@wsj.com at the Wall Street Journal
DHS E-Verify: http://twurl.nl/mje181
Migration Policy Institute: http://www.migrationpolicy.org/
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