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SAVE Bill: To Reduce Illegal Immigrants through Employment Verification

It has been a growing concern for years—Illegal immigration in the United States has been vastly emanating, estimating about 11 million people. In the Pew Hispanic Center, reports states that 57% of the said illegal immigrants are Mexicans, 24% are Latin Americans, 6% are Asians and the remaining 4% are from other countries. This population has been violating U.S. Immigration policies and national laws as they live and work in the United States without consent from its government.


A national concern such as this, Rep. Heath Shuler, of the 11th District of North Carolina has introduced the Immigration Act that would safeguard the countries boarders from illegal immigrants and give jobs to legal U.S. workers via employment verification.

Rep. Shuler and other members of the Congress introduced the SAVE bill which requires companies to send in employment verification of their employees showing their legal right to work. This would ensure reduction of illegal immigrants who comes in to take in jobs.

The SAVE bill, according to Shuler, D-N.C. would help shut down job magnet that attract these illegal immigrants to U.S. thus helping enforce the existing immigration law and open up thousands of work opportunities to those which are legally part of the country.

It was Sen. Mark Pryor of the District of Arkansas that offered the SAVE Act in the Senate. SAVE stands for Secure America through Verification and Enforcement. This bill would give the Department of Homeland Security employees the necessary tools to put a halt in the ever growing population of illegal immigrant who has come to the country to take on jobs. The SAVE Act requires companies in using the Employment Verification process or E-Verify, a program that ensured that new employees are legal citizens in the U.S. giving the right to work. This process should be used by companies in the next four years. Failure to do so, that certain company will be faced with penalties.

Employment Background Check, as required by the SAVE Act, targets on companies that hire illegal immigrant workers. At present 100,000 employers is voluntarily using employment verification. Within 24 hours, more than 95 percent of workers have been screened and approved.

President Obama has acknowledged this growing problem. He has therefore called to companies to do the E-Verify to ensure that legal workers are given proper attention in work opportunities.

In their wants to live the American dream, people have come to U.S. to catch the opportunity for success. Unfortunately, they have gone for the easier way and that is to do it illegally. The U.S. has given amnesty time and again but with the promise that in the future it will put to stop any further illegal crossing in their borders. But with continues violation of the immigration law, the SAVE Act hopes to help in giving justice to the law as it was made for the best of the nation and of its people.

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