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 [...]
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01 Mar 2010 / Employer Sanctions, Employment Authorization, Immigration Enforcement, Immigration Fraud, Legislative Watch
Tags: e verify, i-9, I-9 compliance, i-9 enforcement, illegal aliens, illegal aliens working, unauthorized workers
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15 Feb 2010 / Announcements, Employer Sanctions, Immigration Enforcement
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 [...]
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Tags: i-9, i-9 enforcement, illegal workers, undocumented workers, workplace enforcement, Workplace Raids