by Nick Fishman

This is pretty drastic. Evidently Illinois governor Rob Blagojevich distrusts the Social Security Administration’s and Department of Homeland Security’s databases so much that he and other Illinois law-makers have banned the use of the basic pilot program. The basic pilot program allows employers to query these databases to determine if their employees are legal U.S. workers. I understand their concern about the fallibility of these databases. There are definitely some false-positives that come across (tentative non-confirmations that occur due to poor record keeping or data entry by these governmental agencies), but this seems a bit drastic. See the article below.

New State Law Bans Use of Residency Tool

There is a vague provision that allows use of the system after “training” of an organization has occurred. I have been told by those in the know that this legislation is most likely in response to a power play from Illinois’ labor unions and that this law will ultimately be deemed unconstitutional.

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