{"id":1038,"date":"2007-05-23T01:04:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T18:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2007-05-23T01:04:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T18:04:25","slug":"work-bill-would-create-new-id-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/work-bill-would-create-new-id-database\/","title":{"rendered":"Work bill would create new ID database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The U.S. Congress is poised to create a set of massive new government databases that all employers must use to investigate the immigration status of current and future employees or face stiff penalties.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The so-called Employment Eligibility Verification System would be established as part of a bill that senators began debating on Monday, a procedure that is likely to continue through June and would represent the most extensive rewrite of immigration and visa laws in a generation. Because anyone who fails a database check would be out of a job, the proposed database already has drawn comparisons with the &#8220;no-fly list&#8221; and is being criticized by civil libertarians and business groups.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Work+bill+would+create+new+ID+database\/2100-1028_3-6185466.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Congress is poised to create a set of massive new government databases that all employers must use to investigate the immigration status of current and future employees or face stiff penalties. The so-called Employment Eligibility Verification System would be established as part of a bill that senators began debating on Monday, a procedure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}