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June 28, 2012
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Latest Round of 500 I-9 Audit Notices Sent Out

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a wing of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) tasked with enforcing immigration policies (among other duties), has issued another 500 I-9 Employment Verification Form audits to 500 American businesses in critical infrastructure, agriculture and other industries. These I-9 audits can lead to fines and even civil and criminal penalties and charges....
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June 17, 2011
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ICE to Send Out 1,000 Notices of I-9 Audits

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced it will notify 1,000 companies nationwide of its intent to audit their full hiring records to determine if they're in compliance with the nation's employment eligibility verification laws. Not only will ICE be examining the companies' I-9 employment verification forms but also all payroll records, copies of immigration filings,...
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April 19, 2011
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Social Security Administration Resumes Sending No-Match Letters

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The Social Security Administration (SSA) has resumed its practice of sending no-match letters to notify employers when any of their employees' submitted Social Security numbers do not correspond to a valid number on record. The SSA temporarily stopped issuing the letters in 2009 when the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), under pressure from both unions and business groups, withdrew its...
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February 5, 2011
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Chipotle Fined After I-9 Audit in Minnesota

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Denver-based Chipolte Mexican Grill was forced to terminate hundreds from its 50 Minnesota locations after an I-9 audit turned up a large number of undocumented workers. The total Chipolte workforce in the state before the audit stood at 1,200. Co-CEO Monty Moran said: "We are surprised at what’s happened here because we are very careful about who[m] we hire, and we try to hire the v...
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January 21, 2011
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Tyson Foods Partners with ICE and Joins IMAGE Program

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Tyson Foods has become the first major American business to partner with Immigration and Customs (ICE) officials in a program named IMAGE--ICE Mutual Agreement Between Government and Employers. The first step in joining IMAGE is allowing ICE to conduct a full I-9 audit. The I-9 is a form that must be filled out and retained on all new hires that specifies the documents (passport, Social Securit...
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November 12, 2010
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OFCCP Stops Including I-9 Audits in Visits

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The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), which conducts compliance audits of firms with federal contracts, has announced that it will no longer inspect I-9 employee eligibility forms during its visits. Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), OFCCP had previously verified I-9 compliance and reported violations to ICE. Under its...
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November 11, 2010
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E-Verify Adds Passport Photo Matching

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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and USCIS Director Alejandro Mayorkas yesterday (Nov. 10, 2010) announced the addition of a passport and passport card verification feature on the government's online E-Verify employee eligibility system. “U.S. passport photo matching is another in the long line of enhancements we have made to improve the integrity of the E-Verify system,&rdquo...
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November 4, 2010
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ICE Audits Can Snowball into Mass Agency Visits

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials report that they conducted 2,200 on-site audits of businesses in FY 2010 to verify employees' eligibility to work in the United States, resulting in a record $50 million-plus in fines. ICE, the enforcement wing of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS), no longer stages round-ups of suspected illegal immigrants...
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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...
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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...
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