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Analyst: Legal-worker system can handle Ariz. inquiries

The East Valley Tribune

A federal analyst said Monday the Basic Pilot Program to check the legal status of new employees will not be overwhelmed by a new Arizona law requiring all companies to use it.

And he said the error rate is nowhere near as high as some have claimed.

Michael Mayhew, who works for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, acknowledged the system, which verifies whether someone can legally work in this country, handled nearly 2 million inquiries last fiscal year from more than 19,000 companies. By contrast, there are an estimated 130,000 firms in Arizona that will be required to use the federal database beginning next year.

Posted by Editor at July 24, 2007 07:58 AM

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