Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Originally published January 5, 2012.
Controversial immigration laws passed in 2011 are set to go in effect this year. Criticism has grown over measures in Alabama and Georgia that require police to demand residency documentation from people at routine stops and make parents and guardians provide a birth certificate upon enrolling children in kindergarten. Starting this month, some companies will be required to verify the legal status of employees through a federal database. Today, we’ll take a look at this law, which mandates the use of E-Verify, a system that has been criticized for errors in the past. For details on its impact, we’re joined by Jennifer Chang-Newell, staff attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
