Labor/Employment
Jun. 2, 2011
E-Verify Program Prone to Errors
As a handful of California cities roll out programs to check workers' immigration status using the federal E-Verify program, critics say the system has persistent flaws that unfairly catch naturalized citizens in its net.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Sixteen years after Fane Mahe became a naturalized U.S. citizen, she was suspended from her job as a hospital security guard, under suspicion that she was an undocumented worker.
Mahe was flagged by E-Verify - the free, Internet-based worker eligibility system run by the federal government - because the Social Security Administration was never notified of her naturalization.
Though the sing...
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