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Update: June 11, 2008:

Today the Senate Labor Committee voted to hold E-Verify indefinitely for further study, citing two instances in the text of the proposed bill that are unconstitutional and have been challenged in court in Oklahoma and Arizona.

While community & labor activists are excited about this potential victory- there is a chance that the bill may be revived before the end of the legislative session. Stay on the lookout for updates over the next several weeks.

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"It ended up costing me several days of lost work for which I wasn't paid, plus filing fees and took close to nine months before I got the final papers uniting the name I had been using legally for 16 years with my social security number. If the state had e-verify in place at the time and I applied for a job, I would have been kicked out as a no match.  What employer would wait nine months for me to get my documents- that were out of order through no fault of mine- in order?"

 This was Martha Yager's (of the American Friends Service Committee Southeastern New England) experience in trying to fix an error in the Social Security database in her information.

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