Thread: NV-Immigration focus on employers

Immigration focus on employers

By Nicole Lucht (contact), In Business reporter

Fri, May 15, 2009 (2 a.m.)

A change in administration means a change in the way Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators handle undocumented workers. Instead of rounding up the workers and slapping the employer on the wrist, employers are going to be the focus — and with that comes heftier fines and penalties.

Employers have become the target of a federal campaign to dismantle some businesses’ practice of hiring workers in the country illegally.

Instead of primarily coming after the undocumented workers, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division will start to dole out heftier fines and cut off those businesses from receiving federal contracts.

The immigration division will beef up its workplace enforcement program to target “unscrupulous employers who prey upon these aliens by subjecting them to poor or unsafe working conditions or paying them substandard wages,â€

Nappy seems to go which ever way that political wind blows!


We need to enforce our laws, Use Attrition and Deport all illegals left after employers and others have been fined for helping and/or hiring them.

Nevada is a sanctuary, it is being over run with illegals and their crimes. They fill our schools and streets. We must be the hit and run capital of the U.S

Attrition through enforcement absolutely! Still, there must be a way to cause attrition to the millions here not working. These are the people collecting enough taxpayer funded benefits through their U.S. born children to continue to stay here even without work.

Undocumented workers won’t get a free pass, though. They could still be arrested and deported, as allowed by law, depending on Homeland Security’s priorities and that worker’s criminal history.

You could have fooled me! I get a little concerned when reading phrases like "could still be" and "depending on" when illegal aliens are the main topic of discussion. There would be no need for such phrases if the law was being enforced as written.

Let's face the facts, Ms. Secretary of DHS and Obama have no interest in deporting your everyday garden variety illegal alien. Why would they want to deport the very people that they hope to legalize in the near future?