SHRM Continues to Try and Kill E-Verify, Proving Critics Right

The Iowa Independent has a good roundup of recent employer sanctions actions as well as coverage of the debate over e-verify. As part of their coverage they illustrate the duplicity of the SHRM - the Society of Human Resource Managers - a professional association that has fought to make hiring illegal aliens easy. SHRM has been on the defensive since a DHS blog posting pointed out the obvious - they are working to kill E-verify and replace it with an ineffective system that makes hiring illegal aliens easy.

"I suppose corporate hiring is easier if you can hire illegal workers, so perhaps I shouldn't be suprised that SHRM want to kill a program that makes it harder to hire illegal workers," noted Stewart Baker, Assistant Secretary for Policy at DHS.

"DHS is attempting to discredit SHRM by asserting that our support for the New Employee Verification Act (NEVA) and our work with the bill’s primary sponsor, Rep. Sam Johnson (R-TX), are nothing more than an elaborate plan to kill employment verification altogether," complained China Miner Gorman, acting president of SHRM. [FAIR note: Actually Gorman's statement is an accurate description of what went on. Faced with a system that actually works, and is outside of their ability to control or manipulate to make illegal hiring easy (like the I-9 don’t-ask/don't tell), SHRM came out swinging to keep it from being renewed.]

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