I am pleased that we have reached an agreement by which all employers would have to participate by 18 months after the Department of Homeland Security receives the appropriations necessary to receive the funds needed to fund the system. All new employees hired would have to be run through a system. A series of privacy and accuracy standards would protect citizens and legal immigrants from errors in the system and breaches of private information. To make sure that employers take the system seriously. we strengthen civil penalties for employers who hire unauthorized workers. and we establish criminal penalties for repeat violators. I think we worked in a constructive. bipartisan manner to design an employment verification system that is fair to legal workers and tough on ille152.
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