Can My Employer Turn Me In?

The Fed's now have a web tool that can check the legal status of new hires at any business. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services tells they have made bigger their current web based system. This system allows an employer to check legal status of newly hired people. Already 23,000 employers have signed on to use the system with more coming on every day.

The system uses E-Verify, USCIS Director Emilio Gonzalez says. It allows employers to compare the Green Card photo or their Employment Authorization Document, against the photo's database.

And they're expanding. The E-Verify system by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service will include comparison photos from other legal documents like drivers licenses and passports.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the system is inaccurate and rejects some that are legally authorized to work in the United States. We say no system is perfect and they shouldn't throw the baby out with the proverbial bathwater.