Help Make E-Verify Mandatory - Call Congress Today and Support H.R. 800

Help Make E-Verify Mandatory! Call Your Representatives and Tell Them to Support H.R. 800 Despite a national unemployment rate of 9.4 percent, seven million illegal aliens continue to hold jobs in the United States. However, Congress can put an end to this injustice to American workers by making the E-Verify program permanent and mandatory for all employers.  E-Verify—the free online program administered by the Department of Homeland Security that allows employers to verify the eligibility of employees to lawfully work in the U.S.—is currently used by over 246,000 employers.  However, because E-Verify is not mandatory for all employers, a number of unscrupulous businesses continue to employ illegal aliens, allowing them to take American jobs and drive down wages.      To stop this injustice to American workers, Rep. John Carter (R-TX) introduced bi-partisan mandatory E-Verify legislation last month that would stop the job killing practice of hiring illegal aliens.  Carter’s bill, H.R. 800 (“Jobs Recovery by Ensuring a Legal American Workforce Act of 2011”) would require ALL employers to use E-Verify to check the employment eligibility status of both new hires and current employees.   In addition, H.R. 800 provides for the following necessary reforms:   Increases employer fines for employing illegal aliens—quadrupling the fine for employers discovered to have hired an illegal alien three or more times.  Prohibits employers from deducting wages paid to (or on behalf of) an illegal alien from their gross income.  Requires the IRS to disclose to the Social Security Commissioner and Homeland Security Secretary the taxpayer identity information of employers employing illegal aliens.   FAIR strongly supports H.R. 800.  We now need your help.  Call your Representatives today and urge sign on as a co-sponsor of H.R. 800!  It’s time to help the American worker and make E-Verify mandatory once and for all!  To find your Representative’s phone number, click here.

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