USCIS Announces Update to E-Verify System
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced recently that it has redesigned the E-Verify system to make it easier for employers to verify whether or not individuals are authorized to work in the United States.
E-Verify is a free, internet based based system, that allows participating employers to verify the employment eligibility of their employees.
USCIS officials estimated that over 208,000 employers are registered users of E-Verify, and, has processed over 11 [...]
A Vermont Dairy Farmer Shares His Experience After an Audit of His Hiring Records
The New York Times reported recently that the hiring records of the Gervais Family Farms in Bakersfield, Vermont were inspected as part of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (USICE’s) enforcement efforts to inspect the employment records of 1,000 businesses across the United States. The businesses that were inspected were either known or suspected to have hired undocumented immigrants.
The USICE imposes fines [...]
USICE Inspecting the Hiring Records of 180 Businesses
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) reported earlier this week that it has just issued about 180 Notices of Inspection (NOI’s) to businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Tennessee. The NOI’s informed the affected business owners that they have three (3) days to prepare for the USICE to inspect their hiring records to determine whether or not they have hired unauthorized [...]
E-Verify System Still has Bugs
The Orlando Sentinel reported recently that the system both Congress and the President direct employers to use called E-Verify to combat the hiring of illegal immigrants, is actually failing to identify over half of the unauthorized workers it checks, a research company named Westat has found.
The research company found that E-Verify failed to detect so many illegal workers mainly because the system is [...]
Poultry Plant Assessed Heavy Fine for Immigration Violations
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (USICE) reported this past weekend that Koch Foods of Cincinnati LLC, a poultry processing plant was assessed and paid over $536,000 in fines for violations of the U.S. immigration laws concerning the hiring of undocumented immigrants.
The USICE investigated the company based on an anonymous tip received alleging that company was employing over 100 undocumented workers at their poultry processing [...]
