You can pay anything from $25 for a Social Security card to S1.000 or more for a passport. as well as personal identification documents. These documents are so authenticlooking that employers cannot tell the difference. In fact. it is estimated that tens of thousands of illegal immigrants today receive welfare benefits in California by using counterfeit documents. This bill makes a major effort to reduce this problem. It reduces the number of acceptable employment verification documents from the current 29 to 6 so that employers are better able to determine which documents are valid. Employers will only have to review 6. not 29. Also. the bill doubles the maximum penalties against employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. increasing them from $2.000 to $4.000 for a first offense with graduated penalties for subsequent offenses. Therefore. the bill adds substantial teeth to the employersanction laws. It establishes a pilot program to test the verification system under so that employers can readily and accurately determine an applicants eligibility to work.
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