Yesterday, after my post on the latest scapegoating efforts of anti-immigrant forces, Mario asked a good question about E-Verify, a voluntary internet-based program intended to allow employers to electronically verify the information that workers present to prove their employment eligibility by accessing information in databases maintained by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA).

As we told you earlier this year, E-Verify is expensive and not accurate. One test of the program by Intel Corporation in 2008 had 13% of the employees unverifiable by the system even though all the employees were legally eligible to work. Despite the problems, a spending bill approved yesterday would extend it’s use through September 30th.

What a waste of much needed money.

Via / Feet in 2 Worlds