It’s the Running of the Bulls, in a Sense

Here comes the rush for all the Arizona businesses to get in compliance with the new immigration law.  Many owners around the valley have been in a stall waiting to see if this new employer-sanctions law will hold up to the legal challenge. 

Azcental.com gives this summary of the new law, “Under Arizona's new employer-sanctions law, all employers must begin using E-Verify by Jan. 1 to check the employment eligibility of new hires or risk having their business licenses suspended or revoked if caught knowingly hiring illegal workers.”   

Let’s let the numbers speak for themselves, “as of Nov. 21, only 4,733 of the more than 150,000 employers in Arizona had signed up for the program. Currently, only about 32,000 employers are using the program nationwide.” 

Many lawyers are advising their clients to wait until the last two weeks to sign up for the E-Verify program for two different reasons.  One reason for the wait is to see if the law holds up to the court challenges or if it gets delayed.  The second is to “test the system's capacity and cast doubt on its effectiveness at a time when some lawmakers in Congress are pushing to expand E-Verify to all states.”

Posted November 27th, 2007 by admin - Posted in Human Resources, Immigration, Recruiting | |

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1. Aaron Witsoe said,
   
   

   on November 28th, 2007 at 2:56 pm

   One warning…if you wait too long, you will compete with more than 140,000 businesses for space online. Not sure if I trust the government software to hold up under that load.

2. An American said,
   
   

   on November 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am

   Yeah… Let’s listen to the lawyers. Aren’t they a big part of a lot of the problems we face in America today (Rising cost of health care and O.J., to name a couple). We are still in America right? Sometimes I wonder.

   It is sad that the government even has to step in and try to solve this problem. Yes I know the borders have been too loose for too long; but the bottom line is, if employers didn’t hire illegals, then there wouldn’t be so many trying to sneak in.

   I say sign up and do your part to support America. Be creative. Find other ways to be competitive, instead hiring illegal’s that work for next to nothing. Who knows, maybe you will be the one person that prevents another 911, because you refused to hire undocumented workers. How cool would that be?

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