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Immigration Crackdown Shifts Focus to Employers
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Jul 02, 2009 02:19am |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Wall Street Journal |
| News Date | Thursday, July 2, 2009 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Obama administration announced a crackdown Wednesday on hundreds of companies suspected of employing illegal immigrants, signaling a shift in strategy: going after employers instead of workers.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, said that it had begun an audit of 652 U.S. companies to verify whether their employees were eligible to work. Violations could lead to fines, as well as civil and criminal charges.
It wasn't clear what steps the government would pursue if it verified that an employer had hired illegal workers, or how severe penalties might be.
The announcement came a few months after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said she wanted to focus immigration enforcement on egregious cases of employers who hire undocumented workers, and sometimes even assist in falsifying their paperwork to avoid detection. |
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