 king brarack says he would mandate everify  senators lindsey graham rsc and chuck schumer dny have been pushing for the creation of a biometric id card that would use personal markers such as fingerprints to make it easy for employers to check the status of prospective hires but graham said cost estimates came back higher than he expected and  that seems to have been costprohibitive so we re looking at other ways to achieve the same goal  everify was launched as a pilot program in 1997 and now is used by about 7 percent of employers it s largely voluntary as a federal program but mandatory in some states  draft immigration legislation by president barack obama which he has said he ll offer if the senate group doesn t come to agreement quickly enough would make everify mandatory nationally and the senate group is likely to take the same route for the complete story read the rest of the article at  http newsyahoocom senateimmigrationgroupnationalidtoocostly203225949 19  