The Migration Policy Institute has issued a report reviewing E-Verify and making recommendations on improvements to the program. A few highlights:

The central recommendations of this report are that in making electronic
verification mandatory for all employers as part of comprehensive immigration
reform, Congress and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should:

• Authorize testing several new voluntary pilots for a next-generation E-Verify
system that would reduce employer guesswork and reliably authenticate the
identity of newly hired workers; and

• Take immediate steps to strengthen the existing E-Verify system.

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The report recommends three sets of reforms that are urgently needed to
strengthen the effectiveness, performance, and stakeholder support for the
existing E-Verify:

• Strengthen due-process protections and compensate workers when system
errors result in thewrongful termination of US citizens and other legal
workers — steps that would beparticularly important with a mandatory
employment verification mandate that would result inthe checks of millions
of workers, native and foreign born, each year;

• Strengthen enforcement of worker protections and employer penalties,
training, and oversight; and

• Monitor E-Verify compliance and strengthen auditing to identify patterns
of misuse, selectivescreening, identity fraud, and off-the-books employment. An
effective, up-and-runningmonitoring and compliance unit must be a top DHS priority.

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