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dk@crl.com (David A. Kaye) writes:
|Stephen L.. Arnold (slarnold@hollywood.cinenet.net) wrote:
|: employer is making the proper deductions. Most employers who want to hire
|: legal employees make a number of checks to verify employee information.
|
|It's the employer's fault.  I also disagree that most employers make "a 
|number of checks" -- most employers don't do anything but the minimum 
|necessary by law to check citizenship.

It would probably open them up to accusations of illegal discrimination
or something like that if they were to ask for anything more than what
the I-9 form asks them to ask for (either a USA passport, or one document
from list A and one document from list B -- list A and B each contain a
list of documents from which the _employee_ chooses).

|                                        Those employers who hire illegals 
|do so knowingly.

While that is probably true in a lot (probably the majority) of cases
where illegal immigrants are hired (e.g. illegal immigrants bearing "6
footer" documents that employers will accept even though they look fake
from closer than 6 feet), it is also true that it is not that difficult
to use fake documents to fool a law abiding employer.  Consider the
number of different ways a driver's license, state id, birth certificate,
permanent residency card, native american document, etc. can look.

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Timothy J. Lee                                        timlee@netcom.com
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