There used to be such a service, back in 2001. The administration basically closed that section, and later it and Congress took it out of the budget. I believe it was done because an electronic version would appear someday.
There is an electronic check right now. It just that about half of undocumented workers pass the check, because they are using legal ID numbers. I don't think that enforcing the law would solve the problem, since it would be awfully difficult to keep every random yahoo from paying someone under the table. And really, to me, it feels like the problem is terribly overblown. Yes, we need to keep track of the folks living and working here, but with so many of the folks working here doing so with legal (if stolen) ID, they are paying taxes and staying out of trouble. Do we really have huge native born populations clamoring to do agricultural work?
I'm pretty sure we can fine BP something like 4 grand per barrel under current law. In my opinion, we should. Private industry won't respond until the cost of malfeasance is greater than the potential profit margin of a given choice.
I've felt for a long time that throwing the book at employers who knowingly recruit and transport illegal aliens to work for them would go a long way toward keeping people out who don't have the legal right to be in the country. I'm glad some people mentioned the problem of people falsifying identities in order to get work. In my work with the unemployment agency in WI, I discovered that there is not much cooperation between agencies who detect this kind of identity theft and those that have the power and teeth to enforce the laws.
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