Omaha, Nebraska – Gary Rohwar formed his QuickStake Empire at a meat processing center in Omaha, Nebraska.
But then, on June 10, a strategic team of federal agents raided their convenience, and more than 70 employees of their assembly line were arrested by Homeland security check.
He showed CBS News a picture of an old company, stating that about half of the employees were swept away in the raid.
“Oh God, half of them,” Rohwar said. “It makes me sad, it really does, because these people made us successful.”
Rohwar stated that he kept his faith in e-verification—Overn-than-1 million employers are used each year by employers, and which is compulsory by most federal contractors in 10 states-to confirm the eligibility.
“We did everything right, but still we were given great punishment, I mean, a big time,” Rohwar said.
The government tells employers like Rohwar that the e-verification provides “peace of mind”.
For green-light employees, system matches, such as licenses and social security cards, in the US government database of eligible workers. But it does paperwork, not people.
Experts say that the e-verified system is broken, not only to expose employers like Rohwar in raids, but also a very common crime: identity theft.
“This is a nationwide problem,” ELHIC CERERDN, Assistant Special Agent of Homeland Security Investigations Omaha, who led the investigation of QuickStec of Gary, told CBS News.
Ceredon called Rohwar and his business victims.
“This was actually a targeted criminal investigation to save more than a hundred victims of stolen institutions,” Sardan said, insisting that it was a criminal investigation, not civil immigration enforcement.
“Everyone is a victim of this broken system,” said Alex Novreshe, vice -president of the Economic and Social Policy Studies for the liberal CATO Institute to CBS News.
Nowrassteh called the e-verification a “Wink-And-Nod” system.
“What experts know that it is like a dirty small mystery, e-verified is a very easy-to-developing program,” said Notrasteh.
He said that part of its appeal is that it does not work.
“This allows politicians to talk hard about illegal immigration, in fact without spending a huge cost on the US economy,” Novstrey said.
Matthew J, spokesperson of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Tragor said in a statement to CBS News that “e-verifying continuously score high marks from users and employers do not require any special software or additional costs.”
“In recent months, the employees of the USCIS have adopted an aggressive approach to the concert with the Social Security Administration, so that the SSN automatically accepted the e-satyapan block, which was fraudulently used, which was cheated,” said the tragance. “The e-verify supports employers, but it does not replace their legal responsibility to ensure an employee-product documents, appears to be factually real and belongs to the person presenting it.”
