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September 22, 2010

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ICE Targets 500 More Firms for I-9 Audits

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On Sept. 15, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials sent out another 500 notices of inspection (NOIs) to businesses suspected of employing illegal immigrants. ICE agents will be auditing these firms' I-9 employment verification documents. Affected businesses were given three business days to prepare for the inspection, so the audits should already be under way. Fines for uncorrecte...

September 1, 2010

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E-Verify Adds Photo Verification Option

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Beginning this week, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is expanding the photo matching portion of its E-Verify program to include U.S. passports and driver’s license data. This change will be effective at the start of September and will give companies and organizations that use E-Verify the capability of comparing photos from an individual’s U.S. p...

November 11, 2009

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ICE Deal Saves Managers from Doing Hard Time

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Think that maintaining properly vetted I-9 forms on your employees isn't that big a deal? The answer --it is a big deal--has been driven home forcefully to management at Columbia Farms in Columbia, S.C. After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in 2008 discovered hundreds of illegal immigrants working at the poultry plant, most of the workers were deported, dozens of others were t...

October 15, 2009

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Houston Firm Levied $20 Million Fine for Employing Illegals, Crackdown Continues

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Declaring it is out "to target the root cause of illegal immigration," the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit are scurrying about to inspect companies' 1-9 employment verification records to make sure no illegal immigrants are on the payroll. ICE hit the jackpot recently when it inspected Houston's IFCO Systems,...

September 5, 2009

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American Apparel Gets Audited, Will Lay Off 1500 Illegal Workers

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Though the Obama administration has dropped the "no match" rule that created a safe harbor for employers who lay off workers whose Social Security numbers don't match their names, the layoff route is still the route of choice for employers who get caught with illegals on their workforce. Such is the case with American Apparel in Los Angeles. A recent audit found 1,600 employees who were illega...

January 22, 2009

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New I-9 Form: Paperwork Reduction in Action?

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The United States Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS), formerly INS until becoming part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has issued a new form I-9, which is used by employers to verify that potential employees have the legal right to work in the United States. The form has been revised to comply with new USCIS regulations concerning which documents can be used for verification...

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