The Washington Times is reporting that an internal audit done by investigators of the Social Security Administration (SSA) revealed many problems with the Administration's use of E-Verify.  The audit revealed that the SSA failed to run E-Verify checks on 19% of the employees the SSA hired in 2008 and 2009.  Additionally, the audit found that 50% of the E-Verify checks were run in an untimely manner and 44 individuals should have been spotted as tentative non-confirmations.  The SSA and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), administer the E-Verify program.

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This information from The Washington Times borders on comedy.  It is amazing that government entities can insist that the E-Verify program is so easy to administer and follow, yet they cannot adequately implement E-Verify among their own employees.  Regardless of what the SSA, the Department of Homeland Security, or its Secretary Janet Napolitano say, E-Verify has many flaws, and this incident only helps to further highlight them.

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