{"id":54,"date":"2011-03-31T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/calif-employers-might-have-to-e-verify-to-weed-out-illegal-immigrants\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:47:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:47:36","slug":"calif-employers-might-have-to-e-verify-to-weed-out-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/calif-employers-might-have-to-e-verify-to-weed-out-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Calif. Employers Might Have to &#8216;E-Verify&#8217; to Weed Out Illegal Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a pinch of Arizona thrown into his recipe, California Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly has proposed a law that would require the state&#8217;s employers to verify that workers are here legally via the federal government&#8217;s E-Verify system.<\/p>\n<p>He argues it would help save California taxpayers billions of dollars spent on services for illegals. But some employers are not enthused. For one, it would add an extra step &#8212; and extra liability &#8212; to the employment process.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands in the Golden State, all employees have to do is &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8230; file I-9 forms with the feds. Those usually require ID and Social Security cards, which can be faked. But if you own a business, it takes a lot of the weight off your shoulders. You filed it. You&#8217;re good. For the most part.<\/p>\n<p>With Donnelly&#8217;s AB 26 would put the monkey back on business owners&#8217; back, requiring them to make sure, via E-Verify, that their workers are fully legal.<\/p>\n<p>Already, United Farm Workers, the union representing Central Valley agricultural labor, says the bill would seriously harm argribusiness&#8217; ability to hire seasonal workers.<\/p>\n<p>Donnelly plans to introduce the bill April 2.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kget.com\/news\/local\/story\/California-could-get-Arizona-immigration-law\/7Sv_eOfLxk6V6taujLxgqg.cspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KGET<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a pinch of Arizona thrown into his recipe, California Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly has proposed a law that would require the state&#8217;s employers to verify that workers are here legally via the federal government&#8217;s E-Verify system. He argues it would help save California taxpayers billions of dollars spent on services for illegals. But some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[55,56,57],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-dui-law-blog","tag-employment-law","tag-immigration","tag-labor-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5721,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/5721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}