Yesterday Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions offered an amendment to the fiscal year 2010 Homeland Security appropriations bill which would permanently authorize the Homeland Security Department's E-verify program for checking on line to see whether employees and prospective employees are legally authorized to work in the United States, and to make it mandatory for all businesses contracting with the federal government to use the E-verify system to validate the legality of all their workers. The Obama administration has twice delayed a federal rulemaking which would impose the same requirement, which is now supposed to take effect by rule on September 8.
Following an announcement this afternoon by Homeland Security that the mandatory E-verify rule will in fact be enforced by them after September 8, the Sessions amendment was adopted by voice vote on the Senate floor.
Following an announcement this afternoon by Homeland Security that the mandatory E-verify rule will in fact be enforced by them after September 8, the Sessions amendment was adopted by voice vote on the Senate floor.
