e-verify

City officials say the E-Verify program placed an "administrative, economic, and regulatory burden on small businesses that contract with or would otherwise consider contracting with the city of Yakima."

E-Verify is a web based system that allows enrolled employers to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told the National Farmers Union convention she’s renaming the Waters of the U.S. rule the Clean Water Rule and said EPA should have done a better job of rolling out its Clean Water Rule - from calling it WOTUS instead of the Clean Water Rule - to not being more clear about what EPA was and was not proposing - to not talking to farmers and others before EPA put out t

The House Judiciary Committee has advanced mandatory E-Verify legislation by a vote of 20 to 13. This legislation would force employers to use E-Verify to ensure workers can legally work in the U.S. Democrats argued this legislation would devastate ag employers - but Judiciary Committee Chair Robert Goodlatte says the committee will consider a separate agricultural guest worker bill as soon as pos

The E-Verify System is already being used in the city of Yakima to determine if employees of city contractors can legally work in the country. Now, the Kennewick City Council will vote this week to use the system in that city. The electronic system requires people to fill out information that's checked by the immigration service...

The Yakima City Council will take up the issue of E-Verify at Tuesday night's meeting.  Why now? The better question is why not earlier?  The point of E-Verify is to simply do all that is possible to insure that city taxpayer money is paid to workers who are legally eligible for employment.