Kevin Jernegan
Kevin Jernegan is a former Associate Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute.
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This issue brief explores the successes and failures since passage of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of various attempts to create an employment verification system that reliably establishes an employee’s eligibility to work.
This brief examines the sweeping changes in the way identity documents are issued and used under the REAL ID Act, an effort that passed Congress in 2005 to enhance the security of identity documents in post-9/11 America. It takes a detailed look at how this legislation will affect document-issuing agencies, state budgets, and the employment verification system, in addition to immigrants and citizens.
This fact sheet examines the scope and extent of the U.S. immigration system’s chronic backlogs by offering insight into factors that contribute to protracted processing delays for naturalization and permanent residency applications despite government efforts to resolve.