I think it's very interesting that the state government can force employers to use the Federal system to verify if its employees are legal; but police departments, which are government agencies, aren't capable of doing the same thing.
In a story in the Denver Post today http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10779098 the Aurora police claim they didn't know a man who killed three people was an illegal immigrant because he only had a slight accent and appeared to be "completely Americanized." If an employer used that standard to determine who was or was not legal, the ACLU would be all over them.
While employers face penalties if they don't check the status of their employees, the police are saying there is "no magic wand" to determine whether someone is in the U.S. illegally.
Seems like there ought to be one standard for all - either everyone has to check, or no one has to check.
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