From the Times News:

Contractors wanting to do business with Alamance County must now agree to use the federal E-Verify system to confirm the employment eligibility of their workers, but the county won’t regularly monitor compliance.

The county commissioners, by a 4-0 vote this week, approved adding an addendum to county contracts that require contractors to use E-Verify. Commissioner Bill Lashley was absent.

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The new county policy came after Commissioner Tim Sutton and Kim Oliver, a local concrete contractor and anti-illegal immigration activist, asked the county to require E-Verify.

In drafting a paragraph requiring voluntary E-Verify checks, County Manager Craig Honeycutt said county officials “did not want to turn this into an administrative nightmare … to have to keep up with every contract.”

This is a major blow to legislators around the country that have been trying to pass state laws regulating immigration. The case rules that the state of Oklahoma is preempted by the 1986 Immigration Act from trying to impose various sanctions on employers. This presumably puts many laws around the country in jeopardy.

Oklahoma immigration law case -

The AP reports on the progress of the bills.

From DHS' background briefing.

From ABC2 television in Baltimore:

The Baltimore County Council voted unanimously tonight in favor of a plan putting new requirements on contractors hired by the county who in-turn bring on illegal immigrants.

Council wants contractors to use a federal system called e-verifty to prove the immigration status of their employees.

"When you have contractors using illegal immigrants to work at a lower scale than union workers it greatly affects the average American worker during one of the worst recessions in recorded memory," said Buzz Beeler, Baltimore County resident.

Idaho State Representation Mike Jorgenson has introduced a bill that would punish employers of illegally present workers. The bill would make it a misdemeantor if an employer is found to have hired an immigrant worker. Jorgenson received assistance from anti-immigrant law professor Kris Kobach who has been responsible for many anti-immigrant bills introduced around the country.

The Arizona Senate's Public Safety and Human Resources Committee has passed a measure by a 4-3 margin that would make it a felony if an employer fails to use E-Verify. E-Verify is currently mandated in the state, but the penalty is loss of a business license.

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