South Dakota House backs E-Verify use by all employers to check citizenship, immigration status

The South Dakota House of Representatives voted 49-13 Feb. 12 to require the use of E-Verify by employers in the state to check employees’ eligibility to work in the United States.

E-Verify is a free federal government website that compares records from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Social Security Administration to the information on an employee’s I-9, which is an employmen…