Also. thanks go to Chairwoman LOFOREN. who just spoke. Ranking Members MCCRERY and JOHNSON. and Chairman RANGEL for reaching a compromise on such an important issue. The EVerify Program protects American workers by ensuring that jobs are reserved for legal workers. The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 created the basic pilot program. which is now known as EVerify. For the last decade. this program has provided American employers who want to do the right thing with an effective way to ensure that they are hiring a legal workforce. It ensures that new employees are not providing their employers with fake Social Security numbers. As the EVerify Program has grown more popularover 69.000 employers nationwide now participateit has become the subject of some very unfair criticism. To set the record straight. participating employers are happy with the basic pilot program. Last year. an outside evaluation determined that "most employers found the Web basic pilot to be an effective and reliable tool for employment verification" and that an amazing 96 percent did not believe that it overburdened their staffs.
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