Mi Pueblo signed up for E-Verify on Aug. 14, joining more than 30,400 California employers and 109,205 work sites across the state that belong to the expanding work-verification network, according to Sharon Rummery, spokeswoman for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The San Jose-based grocer is also among a growing number of supermarkets in the program.

Pleasanton-based Safeway uses E-Verify, but only in Arizona, where the state requires its use.