ICE Updates Secure Communities List

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency has released an updated list of the counties in the United States who are participating in the Secure Communities Program.  Secure Communities was developed by the Federal government to rout out “bad apple” immigrants who were in the United States without current authorization.  However, as numerous [...]

Two New York Counties Join Secure Communities

The first two counties in New York State have joined the Secure Communities Program.  Secure Communities is the federal program that requires local police to report foreign nationals to the Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency if the local police cannot determine the person’s immigration status.   The counties will be checking the status of all individuals [...]

ICE Set To Issue 500 Employer Audits in Next Week

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 [...]

2 Managers of Staffing Agencies Arrested on Immigration Charges

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.

ICE Does Not Not Use Quotas?

According to ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency “definitively do[es] not set quotas.”

Mr. Morton’s statement is difficult to reconcile with recently uncovered ICE documents that clearly  indicate that ICE has set goals for the number of removals it will reach this year.  In fact, the subject line in an [...]