• Issue Briefs and Other Resources: 
   - General Policy Issues
   - Legislative Proposals & Bills

• Immigrants' Rights Update Articles

Issue Briefs and Other Resources

GENERAL POLICY ISSUES

Testimony of Tyler Moran, Employment Policy Director, National Immigration Law Center, Before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Social Security, Hearing on Employment Eligibility Verification Systems, June 7, 2007. (PDF)

Confiscating Immigrants' Contributions to Social Security.  Proposals requiring legalized workers to forfeit Social Security credit for their prior work and tax contributions would impoverish future citizens, burden state and local governments, frustrate efforts to correct Social Security records, and undermine immigration reform. (5/10/07)

Drum Major Institute "Immigration and the Middle Class" Toolkit, based on DMI's report, "Principles for an Immigration Policy to Strengthen and Expand the American Middle Class: 2007 Edition" (link posted 4/17/07)

Hearing on: Proposals for Improving the Electronic Employment Verification and Worksite Enforcement System, April 26, 2007.  Written Statement of Tyler Moran, NILC Employment Policy Director, to the House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law  (PDF) (4/26/07)

Electronic Employment Verification Systems and Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Legislative Priorities (PDF) (4/05/07)

Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Legislative Priorities for Immigrant Workers (PDF) (2/27/07)

Statement of Bill Beardall on Behalf of the Equal Justice Center and NILC to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations, Field Hearing on "Immigration: Enforcing Employee Work Eligibility Laws and Implementing a Stronger Employment Verification System," Monday, July 31, 2006.  (PDF) (Posted 8/16/06)

Written Statement of Tyler Moran, NILC policy analyst, to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, re: Employment Verification Systems in Comprehensive Immigration Reform (10/18/05) (HTML | PDF)
 

LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS AND BILLS

2008 New Employee Verification Act of 2008 (HR 5515)

New Employee Verification Act of 2008: (HR 5515): Myths and Facts.  NEVA cannot "ensure a legal workforce," would further cripple our Social Security system, would be plagued by database errors, would impose huge new administrative costs, and does raise serious privacy concerns. (5/19/08)

NILC and CLASP oppose using the National Directory of New Hires for purposes of establishing a mandatory electronic employment verification system (EEVS) as is proposed in the “New Employee Verification Act of 2008” (HR 5515).  Written Statement of Vicki Turetsky and Tyler Moran before the Subcommittee on Social Security, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, 5/6/08.  (Turetsky is director of family policy at the Center for Law and Social Policy; Moran is NILC's director of employment policy.)

Rep. Sam Johnson’s New Employee Verication Act: Another Version of the Shuler-Tancredo Bill (New Employee Verification Act of 2008 -- HR 5515)  (3/21/08)
 

2007 SECURE AMERICA THROUGH VERIFICATION AND
ENFORCEMENT ACT  (SAVE ACT)

Shuler-Tancredo Employment Eligibility Verification System: Poorly Designed, Dangerous for the Economy (Secure America through Verification and Enforcement Act of 2007, or SAVE Act -- HR 4088/S. 2368)  (2/14/08)

Letter opposing SAVE Act (sent by the Low-Wage Immigrant Worker Coalition to members of Congress)  (2/4/08)
 

2007 Senate-White House Immigration Reform Proposal

Senate Immigration Bill Proposes Unworkable Employment Eligibility Verification System (PDF) (5/21/07)
 

STRIVE ACT OF 2007

chart:  Employment Eligibility Verification System in the STRIVE Act of 2007 (HR 1645) (STRIVE: Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy) (PDF) (4/2/07)

Title III of the STRIVE Act of 2007 (H.R. 1645): Employment Eligibility Verification (PDF) (3/29/07)
 

PRE-2007 LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS

Summary and analysis: The electronic employment eligibility verification system proposed by the Senate's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S. 2611) (see IRU issue of 8/17/06)

Comparison of Employment Eligibility Verification System Proposals in the Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 (HR 4437) and the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S. 2611) (PDF)(6/12/05)

Update on amendments to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006: Amendment that adds antidiscrimination, privacy, and due process protections to the bill's proposed Employment Eligibility Verification System passes; Kennedy amendment to strengthen labor law defeated  (5/24/06)

Provisions of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 That Affect Immigrant Workers (4/26/06)

Immigrants' Rights Update Articles (back to IRU index)

Denying Immigrants Labor Rights Impacts All U.S. Workers Negatively, House Staffers Told (4/25/07)

Summary and analysis: The electronic employment eligibility verification system proposed by the Senate's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 (S 2611) (8/17/06)