There's been 5 amnesties (including the 1986 one) with promises of enforcement which never happens.
In 1986, the IRCA act made it illegal to hire illegal aliens. In 1993, over 2000 employers were fined. In 2000, over 300 employers were fined. In 2004, only 3 were fined.
In 2005, 0 were fined.But the House did pass the bill HR 4437, which does have some good provisions, even though the media focusses only on border patrol and not interior enforcement.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_4437Mandates employers to verify workers' legal status through electronic means, phased in over several years.
There's something called the "Basic Pilot program", which was created in 1996 to allow for this electronic verification. The joke is that it has always been a voluntary system. It should be mandatory, and HR 4437 would make it mandatory.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2006/jmvtestimony022106.htmlThis program enables employers to electronically verify the work eligibility of newly hired non-citizens directly with the appropriate federal agencies using the Internet, and is considered one of the most promising and effective tools available to encourage compliance with immigration laws. Employers now using the web-based program report that it is easier to use than the current paperwork-reliant system, and brings virtually no disruption to employers and legal workers.
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an important enforcement bill, H.R. 4437, known as the Sensenbrenner bill which, among other things, would gradually require all employers nationwide to use the Basic Pilot Program to verify that their workers are eligible for employment.
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Three pilot programs were introduced in 1997 and the most successful, known as Basic Pilot, was reauthorized and expanded by Congress in 2004. An independent evaluation carried out by Temple University's Institute for Survey Research and the private research firm Westat found that Basic Pilot did reduce unauthorized employment among participating employers (the program is currently voluntary).
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