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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (210699)	7/4/2007 6:44:33 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793986

Thanks for the reference. Here's some mixed news on alternative plan B, state action. Enforcing new Az migrant law may be hard The Arizona Republic Enacting a strict employer sanctions law is one thing, but enforcing it may be quite another. Arizona now has the toughest law in the land for cracking down on employers who hire illegal immigrants. Those employers can lose their businesses if investigators can prove they knowingly made illegal hires more than once. Proving the case against a business will require unprecedented cooperation among federal, state and local officials. At the heart of the law is the federal database Basic Pilot, managed by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency. The program compares Social Security numbers and personal IDs and flags discrepancies. Under Arizona's new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, employers must use Basic Pilot to verify worker eligibility. The attorney general and county prosecutors must use Basic Pilot to substantiate tips that somebody is working illegally. No system is in place for local prosecutors to access the data. Businesses that have used the Basic Pilot program on a voluntary basis have only limited access to the database, to check records of their own employees. Prosecutors will need access to all available records if they hope to verify employment status when they receive complaints. At the citizenship agency, verification chief Gerri Ratliff says the agency can quickly run queries to see if employers are checking job applicants. But the agency can share those findings with one other agency: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the investigative wing of the nation's immigration department. "We will have to sit down with the lawyers and figure out how to make this work," Ratliff says. Lawmakers say they think the real strength of the bill is in deterring employers from hiring illegal immigrants. ICE, a federal agency, will be integral to enforcement. Only ICE can deport illegal workers. ICE also will be the initial conduit for state and local prosecutors who need to conduct computer checks on employers who fall under suspicion. Prosecutors will be responsible for penalizing employers. tucsoncitizen.com

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