The problem I have with patched together systems is the same thing I have with every problem that is fixed with bailing wire and duct tape. Do we need a solution? Yes. Can we put some critical thought into it? Absolutely. Does fixing an existing problem with a broken system make sense? No. We can’t favor “any solution” as THE solution. Why doesn’t it make sense to develop a system that we won’t have to continually fix over the next five years to make it work anywhere close to correctly?

And my comment about airplanes was intentionally hyperbolic. We aren’t talking about college grades either. We are talking about people’s lives and making them intentionally more difficult because the government wants to push a solution on employers that isn’t even close to being complete. If a person is eligible to work in this country on August 1st, they shouldn’t have to wait until the government updates their verification database or that they have to go down to the nearest office and figure it out (and in that time, they lose money that they didn’t count on losing).

Nobody cares about those people at DHS. They won’t say it outright. It is a casualty to a misdirection of resources in the losing war against illegal immigration.

Sorry about the whining comment, but I have been sseing too many “whining comments” (not constructive criticisms) on this issue.

And we are not talking about airplanes. We are talking about paperwork, not fatal planecrashes. SHRM cites 225,000 members in 125 countries. Assuming there are more HR pros than SHRM has members, and you divide your 1% number (1.5 Mil.) by 225,000, you get a caseload of a little more than 6 to 1. Rough and unscientific, I acknowledge, but it doesn’t seem unmanageable to me.

Tell your friends at the DHS that we want a system that isn’t broken and instead of spending time chastising organizations that point out their issues, they could attempt to solve. Is that too much to ask? Apparently so.

I don’t understand why it is considered whining to point out an issue with a busted up system and to say that you oppose its mandatory use? Maybe you could clear that up for me, Pal?

“What could these inaccuracies lead to? Oh, nothing too big besides losing your job or being unfairly rejected for employment. But the good news is, once you actually do get your records fixed so that you show up as verified, someone will probably already have the job you lost.”
Actually, the only one who will lose their potential job is the one dealing with an HR “professional” who overreacts. Even if you do not show up as verified, there is an opportunity to pursue verification, so if the employer really does want to hire that person (and you all keep saying how hard pressed you are to find applicants for your jobs, and how committed you are to your employees and your applicants), then work with the 4% to “correct” the verification – or maybe many in the 4% are not eligible to work. Not hard to imagine given the MILLIONS OF UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS in the U.S.

Stop the whining.