U.S. Chamber: E-Verify Expansion Is Illegal
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is suing the federal government to stop its expansion of a program that seeks to verify whether employees are legally allowed to work in the country.
The Chamber, a business-friendly group that has opposed measures expelling illegal immigrant workers, said that the Bush administration has unlawfully used an executive order to require federal contractors and sub-contractors to use the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify program. The Chamber group said that the executive order discards federal immigration and procurement laws.
“This massive expansion of E-Verify is not only bad policy, it
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