{"id":8634,"date":"2015-03-12T17:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T21:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8634"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:24:54","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:24:54","slug":"why-do-illegal-workers-have-valid-ssns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/03\/12\/why-do-illegal-workers-have-valid-ssns\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Illegal Workers Have Valid SSNs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One criticism of the government\u2019s E-Verify system<\/a> is that it is flawed by the fact that many illegal workers are verified by the system as eligible to work. That is not, of course, an argument against the expansion of E-Verify from its current status as a temporary voluntary system to a mandatory requirement for all employers<\/a> as proposed in H.R. 1772. There is no logic to saying that because some illegal workers are not denied jobs there should be no effort at all to deny jobs to illegal workers.<\/p>\n

Instead, the recognition that there is a \u2018false positive\u2019 problem in the implementation of the E-Verify system should lead to a focus on what can be done to lessen the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

False employment approvals by the E-Verify system result when the name and date of birth of the new hire match the information in the Social Security database recorded when the SSN was issued. That match-up, however, does not necessarily mean that person is legally entitled to work at the time the E-Verify system is accessed. Here are some of the reasons:<\/span><\/p>\n