Atlanta Journal-Constitution Article On E-Verify Hearing

From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Forcing companies to use a government system to verify the legal status of workers would cause thousands of citizens and legal residents to be initially rejected for work and cripple the Social Security Administration, critics told Congress on Tuesday.

The system, known as E-Verify, is currently voluntary, but several proposals in Congress — including an immigration enforcement measure known as the SAVE Act — would make it mandatory. ...

he panel's chairman, Rep. Michael McNulty (D-N.Y.), said he was concerned that SSA offices could be overwhelmed with a "massive new workload" as U.S. citizens and other authorized workers try to correct their information. This could hurt efforts by the agency to reduce an unprecedented backlog of disability claims, he said.

Greg Heineman, president of the National Council of Social Security Management Associations Inc., which represents 3,400 SSA managers and supervisors, predicted that making E-Verify mandatory for all U.S. employees would result in an "onslaught" of more than 10 million more visits to SSA field offices.