State poised to restrict use of E-Verify database

 
Bernice Yeung on California Watch  writes that California is poised to nullify immigration enforcement ordinances in about a half dozen California cities by restricting the use of E-Verify, the U.S. government’s database that can be used to check the immigration status of job applicants and workers. Under the Employment Acceleration Act, passed by the California Senate last week and currently awaiting Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature, state and local governments could not require California businesses to use E-Verify to attempt to identify undocumented employees.

It willbe interesting to se whether Governor Brown signs the bill into law.  As Attorney General, he was a proponent of the Obama Administration’s Secure Communities program, which is controversial among many local governmental agencies.

KJ