Obama Administration Cracks Down on Employers of Illegal Immigrants
Monday, July 12, 2010
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the Obama administration is employing a quieter approach to going after illegal immigrants employed in the United States. Instead of conducting high-profile raids of factories, farms and other businesses, ICE officials are showing up and auditing companies’ books to locate everyone on the payroll who is an undocumented worker. The new strategy is resulting in all illegal workers being fired at a company, instead of just those present on the day of the Bush-era raids.
Another important difference lies in the fact that ICE is not deporting as many of the fired workers as before, allowing them to remain in the U.S. to find another employer.
ICE has reportedly conducted audits of employee files at more than 2,900 companies over the past year. The “silent raids” have resulted in a record $3 million in civil fines so far in 2010.
Business owners, especially those in agriculture, are complaining that the raids are leaving them short on cheap labor. It is estimated that more than 60% of farm workers in the United States are illegal immigrants.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
Illegal Workers Swept From Jobs in ‘Silent Raids’ (by Julia Preston, New York Times)
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