The Department of Justice has announced that it has reached an agreement with a company that owns several fast food restaurants in Maine. The company had been accused of having a policy of not hiring any immigrants. The DOJ pursued the company as its policy appeared to violate the anti-discrimination laws of the United States [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security has announced the ability to curious individuals to self-check whether they have work authorization in the United States. The self-check is available at the USCIS website. Currently it is only available in a few states, including Virginia, Arizona, the District of Columbia, Colorado and Idaho. The [...] The USCIS will soon offer an E-verify program that will allow individuals to self-check their work authorization status. The service will allow an individual to self-input information about themselves to determine whether there are any mistakes in a person’s record. The e-verify system is a volunteer system that allows employers to verify a new employee’s [...] It is being reported that the Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency is set to issue 500 employer audits in the next week. Employer audits are the in vogue method for the government to ensure employers are properly monitoring their new hires through I-9 and e-verification. Employers must verify that each new hire is authorized to [...] The US Supreme Court recently announced that it will hear arguments in Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. v. Napolitano, 558 F.3d 856 (9th Cir. 2009), cert. granted sub nom. Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria, (June 28, 2009) (No. 09-115). The case involves Arizona’s Legal Arizona Workers Act, which prohibits employers from knowingly or intentionally employing [...] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that it has arrested two managers of staffing agencies near Chicago. The managers are accused of employing undocumented immigrants who were hired as temporary workers for third party companies. The managers face the possibility of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. A new report has cast doubt on how accurate the government’s E-verify is in detecting unauthorized employees. The report indicates that E-verify fails to identify over 50% of all unauthorized workers. As way of background, the E-verify program was created by the U.S. Government to provide a simple means by which an employer could determine [...] by Svilen.milev The Federal Government agreed to stop its immigration inquiry into Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation after the company agreed to pay the government $4.5 million dollars over three years and to use more stringent hiring standards. The corporation, a chicken processor, has admitted no criminal or civil wrongdoing. However, the business is just now [...] The California city of Lancaster will soon require businesses to use the federal government’s e-verify program. The e-verify program is a voluntary federal program that is meant to allow companies an easier means to identify newly hired workers who are eligible to work. The city is threatening the revocation of business licenses for businesses that [...] Attached to the recently passed Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Appropriations Act of 2010, the Conrad State 30, EB-5, and E-verify programs have been extended through September 2012. These three programs are technically “temporary” programs that need to be reaffirmed every couple of years. In reality, these three programs have been continuously reaffirmed for years [...] The USCIS recently opened a verification center in Buffalo, NY. The verification center will employ 135 individuals and will have the sole mission of verifying immigration status for the E-Verify and Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) programs. According to Michael Aytes, USCIS Acting Deputy Director, participation has increased fivefold in the last three years. [...] The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency announced yesterday that it will investigate 1000 additional companies for I-9 compliance. This announcement comes on the heels of a May announcement when it announced that it would investigate 500 companies. The investigation will consist of an I-9 audit of the company’s records. The audit is meant to [...] The New York Times is reporting that the owners of Yamato Engine Specialists 1990 Ltd. have been ordered to pay a $100,000 for hiring unauthorized workers. The owners will, however, not be jailed. This company was one of the first companies to face an ICE Workplace enforcement investigation after President Obama was inauguated. Since ICE [...] The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency recently announced that a Missouri poultry processing plant has paid a $450,000 fine after a 2007 ICE raid of the plant found 136 unauthorized employees. In addition to the nearly half million dollar fine, the company was also required to develop an I-9 Compliance program that complied [...] Federal Contractors and sub-contractors are reminded that today, September 8, 2009, is the deadline that the Immigration Service has set for requiring participation in the E-verify program. The E-verify program allows for employers to check the work authorization status of new hires to ensure that no unauthorized individuals are employed. For more information, please visit [...] |
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