Speech #1090129163

In its place. a series of documents required to be submitted with the 19 employment eligibility verification form was substituted. The end result was the creation of a new cottage industry for the production of false documentation. I would like to emphasize once again that it was the negation of an effective employer verification system. which in. combination with the lack of enforcement. undermined the usefulness of employer Sanctions as an immigration enforcement tool. It was for this reason that the basic pilot project was created in 1996 by this Congress. The system allows employers to voluntarily check the names and Social Security numbers of its employees against the records maintained by the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.