• Immigrants' Rights Update Index

Immigrants' Rights Update

Volume 20, Issue 3
August 17, 2006

Employment Eligibility Verification Issues

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

• Enforcement-only approach to immigration reform will give boost to the most unscrupulous employers, EJC & NILC testify

• NILC Chart: "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 and Reform Act of 2006 (S 2611)"

• Tool kit for advocates now available: Temporary protected status and proving work authorization

Social Security Administration-issued "No-Match" Letter

• U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security issues proposed rule: "Safe Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a No-Match Letter"

Post-Hoffman Employment Litigation Affecting Immigrants

• Court rejects employers' post-discovery attempt to inquire into workers' immigration status in a Title VII action

• Federal district court finds immigration status irrelevant to workers' claims for unpaid wages

Gulf Coast Recovery-related Issues

• Report gives voice to Katrina victims struggling to return home and to badly exploited reconstruction workers