Texas Tribune by Julian Aguilar
Despite the growing clamor for Texas businesses to adopt a federal employment verification system that some say would clamp down on the hiring of illegal immigrants, state lawmakers say they need more time to evaluate the system.
More than a dozen bills have been filed that pertain to E-Verify, which is managed by the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services and compares the information that potential workers submit to an employer on their I-9 — a federal document that collects employment-eligibility information — to records maintained by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration.
But analyses of the bills by the Legislative Budget Board — and concerns some employers and lawmakers have over what they say is a flawed system — have prevented the bills from being passed out of committee.
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