ICE Checking Records for Hiring of Illegal Immigrants
2011 offers another round of Form I-9 Audits by Immigration Custom Enforcement or ICE. While reaffirming that the audits are intended to foster a culture of compliance among potential employers of illegal immigrants, the agency noted that this is the fifth such audit program. In the fiscal year 2010 ICE arrested 196 employers from 2,338 audits. The 2,196 audits of the preceding 2009 fiscal year resulted in 114 employer arrests.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement Has Not taken Their Summer Break on Enforcement
Immigration compliance is still top of mine with ICE. The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement are taking more efforts to ensure that immigration laws are not being broken in the workforce. The ICE is continuing its thorough investigation of companies throughout the United States. If you’re a business, you need to be aware of the latest ICE efforts in order to protect yourself, your employees, and your company. Immigration compliance is an area companies should become familiar.
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Human Capital Management
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The Cost of Non-Compliance With Immigration Requirements
The Obama administration has changed the direction of its efforts from the previous administration from going after illegal workers to now targeting the employers who hire them. According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has directed ICE to focus it efforts on the auditing and investigation of employers who knowingly hire illegal workers. In 2010, ICE criminally charged a record-breaking 180 business owners, employers, managers and/or supervisors, up from 114 in 2009 and 135 in 2008. Additionally in 2010, ICE conducted more than 2,200 I-9 audits – up from more than 1,400 in 2009. That’s proof enough that ICE means business.
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Human Capital Management
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ICE Investigation Sentenced Two Business Owners
Two Virginia business owners were sentenced on Tuesday to serve 18 months in prison, forfeit $1.2 million, and pay over $110,000 in fines because of their involvement in hiring and harboring illegal workers.
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What Should Employers Know Right Now
Under the Bush administration, the focus of worksite enforcement actions was arresting illegal aliens. Under the Obama administration, however, the focus of the Department of Homeland Security (”DHS”) has shifted to criminal prosecution of employers. DHS made this clear in an April 30, 2009, memorandum setting out its worksite enforcement strategy and in a corresponding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (”ICE”) Worksite Enforcement Fact Sheet.
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There’s Lots Of ICE In The Forecast
So, how does ICE choose which employer it will visit and demand to inspect all I-9 Forms and payroll records? ICE has a pattern of investigating industries with a history of hiring immigrant workers such as agriculture, construction, landscaping, restaurants, and other hospitality businesses. But don’t get complacent. It doesn’t mean because your business is not in one of these categories that ICE won’t visit you next.
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Misinformation Can Cost You With The Form I-9 and E-Verify
Nearly every day we run across well-meaning hiring managers who are unwittingly breaking the rules of I-9 compliance and E-Verify. Sadly for these dedicated professionals, “I didn’t know that” will not be an effective defense when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents audit their hiring process.
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ICE Sending Chills Down Spines of U.S. Employers
On July 1, 2009 – just before the long hot Fourth of July holiday weekend – the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE) sent chills up the spines of many U.S. employers by issuing Notices of Inspection (NOIs) to 652 businesses nationwide to determine whether or not they were complying with Employment Eligibility Verification (I-9) Form regulations.
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Bulletproof Your Company’s Immigration Policy For The New Year
Is your company’s immigration policy solid for the coming year? In early July, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued 652 Notices of Inspection to businesses nationwide, including a number of businesses in the hospitality industry. DHS Assistant Secretary for ICE, John Morton stated that “ICE is committed to establishing a meaningful I-9 inspection program to promote compliance with the law.” Morton referred to the auditing of 652 businesses I-9 forms as “only the first step in ICE’s long-term strategy to address and deter illegal employment.” You can read the full article linked below.
http://www.martindale.com/labor-employment-law/article_Fisher-Phillips-LLP_862638.htm
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Human Capital Management
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What HR Needs To Do Now About Form I-9 Audits
The feds haven’t finished the first massive I-9 audit, and they’ve already announced a new round — this time targeting 1,000 employers.
Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent notices of inspection (NOIs) to 1,000 businesses, alerting them that feds want to look at their I-9 records.
Link to the full article below.
http://www.hrmorning.com/feds-crack-down-on-i-9s-1000-more-audits/
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Human Capital Management
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