In tune with President Obama’s primetime comments, the Department of Homeland Security has issued a revised worksite enforcement initiative overview that can best be described as a stern warning to employers of unauthorized workers. The overview explicitly states that ICE will focus its efforts on employers and will use both criminal and civil penalties to punish violating employers. The overview also provided a graph of the government’s increased enforcement over the last six years:
It is pretty obvious that enforcement is on the uptick. To avoid problems, employers must not employ unauthorized workers and must make sure to comply with the required paperwork for newly hired employees.