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Arizona Republic
By Jahna Berry
Despite a state law requiring businesses to verify that all new employees are legal workers, only about half of new hires in Arizona have been vetted by a federal system that checks their status.
About a third of the state's estimated 100,000 employers have signed up for the E-Verify program.
The state's employer-sanctions law, which took effect more than two years ago, requires employers to use the free online federal system to check the legal status of all new employees. Those who don't risk losing their business licenses if they employ an illegal worker.
But federal employment data and figures from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services requested by The Arizona Republic suggest hundreds of thousands of workers have been hired without being checked against federal records.
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Tags: E-Verify, Employer sanctions law, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services | 
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