IMMIGRATION LAW
Immigration Law and Reform
The current immigration situation of the U.S. is bleak and has been for sometime, post 9/11 has brought forth a paranoia that is very debilitating to the immigrant community and its aftershocks are still being felt to this day. The obstacles emplaced on the hopeful citizen or resident to our country are high, and almost impossible to overcome and the controversy remains to get more tangled in complicated rhetoric and patriotic zealots who are NOT thinking of alternatives but just aiming their anger on people who are willing to work for this country (usually jobs not very likeable by the majority of Americans) and are seen as a threat to national security. It is causing a civil rights movement upsurge that is getting more and more heated as the tension mounts for an answer. I will go through a brief history of recent important immigration law dates and then what is being done in the present. The first sweeping change in immigration law was the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 the three major provisions of this Act ensured that employment must be:
Verified- All employers must verify if employees are legally authorized to work in the U.S. It would be against the law to hire an undocumented person.
Record-Kept- Employers must keep forms verifying the employees are legally authorized to work in the U.S
Anti-discriminatory- Employers may not discriminate based on national origin or citizenship status.
The verification process of ALL employees must be checked within three days of the hire date (most likely by a new system by the name of e-verify, which is a government database of social security numbers). The recording of documents would be in the form of the I-9 and this document would be used for these purposes, must be kept on file with employer for three years or one year after the employee’s termination, whichever is later, and anti-discriminatory practices must be followed as well and one cannot
The current immigration situation of the U.S. is bleak and has been for sometime, post 9/11 has brought forth a paranoia that is very debilitating to the immigrant community and its aftershocks are still being felt to this day. The obstacles emplaced on the hopeful citizen or resident to our country are high, and almost impossible to overcome and the controversy remains to get more tangled in complicated rhetoric and patriotic zealots who are NOT thinking of alternatives but just aiming their anger on people who are willing to work for this country (usually jobs not very likeable by the majority of Americans) and are seen as a threat to national security. It is causing a civil rights movement upsurge that is getting more and more heated as the tension mounts for an answer. I will go through a brief history of recent important immigration law dates and then what is being done in the present. The first sweeping change in immigration law was the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986 the three major provisions of this Act ensured that employment must be:
Verified- All employers must verify if employees are legally authorized to work in the U.S. It would be against the law to hire an undocumented person.
Record-Kept- Employers must keep forms verifying the employees are legally authorized to work in the U.S
Anti-discriminatory- Employers may not discriminate based on national origin or citizenship status.
The verification process of ALL employees must be checked within three days of the hire date (most likely by a new system by the name of e-verify, which is a government database of social security numbers). The recording of documents would be in the form of the I-9 and this document would be used for these purposes, must be kept on file with employer for three years or one year after the employee’s termination, whichever is later, and anti-discriminatory practices must be followed as well and one cannot