Rep. Calvert Calls Again for New Regulations

Rep. Calvert Calls Again for New Regulations

Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced two new regulations regarding employer compliance with employee eligibility laws. One proposed regulation updates the legal obligations for businesses that receive "no-match" letters from the Social Security Administration (in response to their quarterly submission of wage reports) when the Social Security number submitted by an employee does not match with that employee's name. The other regulation would permit businesses to digitize their I-9 employment forms.

Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Corona) issued the following statement in response to today's announcement by DHS:

"It seems as though DHS is trying to tweak a broken system that has been failing the American people for far too long. I would rather see the Administration focus on working with Congress to implement a new mandatory electronic employee verification system that will serve as an effective tool for enforcing our immigration laws.

I wrote the law that created the current Basic Pilot Program which has run successfully for over a decade, benefiting thousands of businesses who have voluntarily signed up. The immigration reform bills passed by the House and Senate endorse my approach and create a mandatory electronic employee verification program modeled after the Basic Pilot Program.

Business owners want to be part of the solution to our illegal immigration problem, so we must provide employers with the resources they need to verify employees Social Security numbers immediately after they are hired, not months later when the wage reports are submitted."

http://calvert.house.gov/pressreleases.asp?ARTICLE4024=11776