By Doug Cunningham

The federal government is giving up on trying to enforce its social security “no-match” rule. Instead, the Department of Homeland Security says it’s coming up with a new rule that it says will pass legal tests. The AFL-CIO and the ACLU had sued over the rule. They said it would cause U.S. citizens and legal workers to be fired if the rule was implemented and enforced. The AFL-CIO says the social security database is flawed and firing workers based on mismatches would be an injustice to legally-employed citizens. The Department of Homeland Security wants the lawsuit put on hold until March of 2008 when its new rule will be ready.