MaggieD
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No, the employers fill them out. The government can easily, though audit processes that are already in place, do additional checks on the documentation given in I-9 forms to determine whether or not they are fraudulent. If they are, because the illegal gave false ID, then the company didn't know, and the illegal goes to prison for fraud, and is then deported when his sentence is finished. However, if the company management does not turn in I-9 forms, and illegals are working there, then the company management goes to jail. It's as simple as that.
Okay. That's beginning to make a little sense. But the I-9 form has been around since 1986. I've never filled one out in my life. Yet it says that every employee must fill one out. So how does an employer make the decision that he needs to have an I-9 from someone?