tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38588416.post6533803107397680055..comments2023-10-24T05:35:24.823-04:00Comments on SHOW US THE INHERENT LAW: Vote Paul for personal freedomThe Freedom Fellowshiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11788272213603576761noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38588416.post-75184051127331131382007-09-26T04:50:00.000-04:002007-09-26T04:50:00.000-04:00"National employment verification" is nothing but ..."National employment verification" is nothing but totalitarianism. Welcome to Orwell's 1984. Big Brother has arrived.<BR/><BR/>http://individualsovereignty.blogspot.com/Scott Haleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14822015880980374198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38588416.post-83796925621513206652007-09-25T22:33:00.000-04:002007-09-25T22:33:00.000-04:00Spotlight on SurveillanceMay 2007:National Employm...Spotlight on Surveillance<BR/><BR/>May 2007:<BR/>National Employment Database Could Prevent Millions of Citizens From Obtaining Jobs<BR/><BR/>EPIC’s “Spotlight on Surveillance” project scrutinizes federal government programs that affect individual privacy. For more information, see previous Spotlights on Surveillance. This month, Spotlight scrutinizes the national employment verification system now under consideration in Congress. The national database is proposed to prevent undocumented immigrants from obtaining employment in the United States, but it could instead prevent millions of Americans from obtaining lawful employment. The federal program will also be expensive. The Government Accountability Office has estimated that a nationwide expansion of the Basic Pilot program would cost $11.7 billion.[1]<BR/><BR/>Congress is considering two bills that would create such a nationwide, mandatory employment eligibility verification system.[2] An examination of the two bills finds that the proposed changes would make the already-flawed identification systems worse for both U.S. citizens and documented immigrants. Most troubling is the fact that the bills will give the Department of Homeland Security unprecedented control over the employment of all workers in the United States.<BR/><BR/>The Current Employment Eligibility Verification System<BR/><BR/>Both the House and Senate bills create a new, mandatory, national Electronic Employment Verifications System based on the current Basic Pilot program.[3] The new system creates an enormous datamining infrastructure, where the Department of Homeland Security would be given unprecedented power to control the employment of all U.S. citizens, legal permanent residents, and documented immigrants. Previously, Spotlight on Surveillance reviewed employment eligibility verification systems and found they are filled with problems, which would be exacerbated by the creation of a mandatory, national employment eligibility verification system.[4]Bleaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05565034455756184311noreply@blogger.com