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Issue Briefs and Other Resources |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Electronic Employment
Verification Systems and Comprehensive Immigration Reform:
Legislative Priorities (PDF) (4/05/07) |
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Comprehensive Immigration Reform:
Legislative Priorities for
Immigrant Workers (PDF) (2/27/07) |
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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) |
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Written NILC statement to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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PDF) (10/18/05)
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2008
New Employee Verification Act of 2008 (HR
5515) |
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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.) |
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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)
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2007
SECURE
AMERICA THROUGH VERIFICATION AND
ENFORCEMENT ACT (SAVE ACT) |
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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) |
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Letter opposing SAVE Act
(sent by the Low-Wage Immigrant Worker Coalition to members of Congress) (2/4/08)
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2007
Senate-White House Immigration Reform Proposal |
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Senate Immigration Bill Proposes
Unworkable Employment Eligibility Verification System
(PDF) (5/21/07)
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STRIVE
ACT OF 2007 |
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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) |
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Title III of the STRIVE Act of 2007
(H.R. 1645): Employment Eligibility Verification (PDF) (3/29/07)
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PRE-2007 LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS |
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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) |
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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)
(PDF)(6/12/05) |
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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) |
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Provisions of the Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Act of 2006 That Affect Immigrant Workers
(4/26/06) |
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Immigrants' Rights Update Articles
(back
to IRU index) |
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Denying Immigrants Labor Rights
Impacts All U.S. Workers Negatively, House Staffers Told (4/25/07) |
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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) |
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