LINCOLN- Nebraska would step up its role against illegal immigration under a newly proposed state law requiring businesses with at least 25 workers to use an online system aimed at ferreting out undocumented workers. State Sen. Kathleen Kauth of Omaha, under Legislative Bill 532, wants to create graduated state penalties, including suspension of a business license, for employers that don’t partake in the E-Verify program to check an applicant’s eligibility to work and that knowingly hire people unauthorized to work in the United States.

Furthermore, the measure calls upon the Nebraska Department of Labor to develop and carry out random audit inspections and expose violators using a public-facing database. “We’re saying that every business should be doing this,” Kauth, chair of the Legislature’s Business and Labor Committee, said of the electronic verification. “I want them to do the right thing.”

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