The federal government has a program that works, and perhaps more impressively, businesses support it, at least to a point.
That program is E-Verify, the primarily voluntary electronic verification service hosted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Kicked off in 1996, it's a system for verifying that a person with a valid Social Security number is eligible for employment in the U.S. It's used mostly to verify that an immigrant is OK to hire.
The USCIS proudly proclaimed that it recently surpassed 500,000 employer/customers, and that E-Verify been used 25 million times.
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