Require the Social Security Administration (SSA) to issue Social Security Cards that contain a photo of the cardholder on the card.
 

Requires Social Security Cards to contain an electronic signature strip that contains an encrypted electronic identification strip, unique to that individual.     
 

Requires Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to maintain Employment Eligibility database with a person’s proof of citizenship data and work and residency eligibility information (including expiration dates) for non-citizens.  Information in database acquired at time of application for the Social Security Card; and currently existing databases.   
 

Authorizes Dept. of Homeland Security to expand currently existing Citizen Attestation Verification Pilot (CAVP) and Basic Pilot Program, if they feel it meets the requirements of the program. 
 

Require all those who intend to seek work in the United States (citizens and work-eligible immigrants) to apply for a new Social Security card with photo identification.
 

This is only necessary when the person is applying for a new job; current workers would not need to update their card until they intend to seek new employment, and would only need to update their card once.   
 

Require all employers to require that new hires demonstrate possession of a Social Security Card with Photo ID. 
 

Require all employers to verify the work-status of the applicant by verifying the authenticity of the Social Security Card with Photo ID. 
 

Employers must verify the applicant is eligible to work via a phone verification system, to be set up by DHS, or via a card-reader approved by DHS that reads the electronic signature strip.
 

The Employment Eligibility database will report to the employer on the applicant’s work eligibility. 
 

Employers are prohibited from hiring applicants who are determined not to be work-eligible by the database.  
 

Specifies that employers who knowingly hire any applicant who did not pass scrutiny of the DHS Employment Eligibility database face fines of $50,000 per occurrence. 
 

Makes the hiring of a known illegal worker a federal offense (felony) punishable by up to 5 years in prison, per count.      
 

Specifies that employers who choose not to verify the applicant’s Employment Eligibility via the database face fines of $50,000 per occurrence. 
 

Makes the failure to verify the applicant’s eligibility a federal offense (felony) punishable by up to 5 years in prison per count.   
 

Requires the employer to reimburse the federal government for the cost of removing or deporting the illegal worker from the United States.    
 

Authorizes such sums as necessary to the Social Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security to carry out the activities required under the Act. 
 

Authorizes $50,000,000 to hire new border patrol agents under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security.
 

Authorizes $100,000,000 to the Department of Homeland Security to enforce compliance by employers with the provisions of this Act and prosecute violations. 
 

Requires that the provisions of this act go into effect no later than 2 years after the date of enactment. 
 

Requires that the border-patrol fingerprint identification system and the FBI fingerprint-database be integrated no later than 2 years after the date of enactment. 
 

Specifies that nothing in the Act shall be construed to establish a national identification card, and that it is the policy of the U.S. that the social security card not be used as a national identification card.