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Immigration screening could snag too many workers

May 29, 2007 (1 min read)

"As a child, Traci Hong came from South Korea to the United States as a legal immigrant. Fifteen years ago, she became a U.S. citizen. Yet in March, when Hong, now 37, applied for a congressional staff job, an employee screening system that is the linchpin of the Senate's immigration legislation told a different story: It flagged her as being here illegally. Hong spent eight days navigating the bureaucracy to correct a database error and convince officials that she was entitled to work here ? and she's an immigration lawyer, a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and its law school." Los Angeles Times, May 29, 2007.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-verify29may29,0,6032012.story