Anthony Nwakaegho/DigitalSENSE Business News
E-Verify, the internet-based system that is used in everyday tasks by
employers to check whether job applicants may legally work has been shut by the
Department of Homeland Security in the United States.
The websites
that shut down from the investigation by DigitalSENSE Business News include the E-Verify site run by the
Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
and the agency sites of the Census Bureau, Agriculture Department, National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Library of Congress and the federal and
international trade commissions.
DigitalSENSE Business News investigations also revealed that this is
the first shutdown of the E-Verify system which checks information provided by
employees against millions of government records in 17 years.
According
to Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, whose department will stop issuing crop
reports and processing loans for small rural businesses, “Business people are
making decisions. They have to make decisions today, and the reality is that
they are faced with this enormous uncertainty. The fact is, when you’re faced
with uncertainty, you pull back. You don’t make decisions you might otherwise
make. You don’t expand, you don’t invest.”
DigitalSENSE Business News also recorded that more than 409,000
employers use E-Verify to check eligibility aimed at stopping employment of
undocumented immigrants, while participation is voluntary for most companies,
others must use it by state law or federal regulation.
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