Thread: ICE audits disproportionately target lower-income workers

ICE audits disproportionately target lower-income workers, say immigration experts

By Nicolas Mendoza | 07.01.11 | 6:30 pm

On June 15, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began an intensified round of employer audits, notifying 1,000 businesses across the country that they would be facing inspections of their employee records. Businesses selected for audits must turn over the I-9 forms, in which they give their Social Security numbers and dates of birth, that their employees fill out when they are hired in order to verify that they employ no undocumented immigrants.

The Obama administration has relied on I-9 audits as a replacement for workplace raids, which were used frequently under the Bush administration and generated a great deal of bad publicity for ICE and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. I-9 audits, according the administration, place more of the burden of enforcement on employers rather than the immigrants themselves.

“There are limited ways in which you can come to the attention of the government,â€

Liberal Spin. Poor Illegal Aliens. Booo Hooo.

Of course they are in low income jobs, illegals have no skills, no educations, language barriers.... are not qualified to work in the US.

Dixie

Well duh!!! Low income workers are more likely to jump the border in search of more money.

Visa over stayers from countries other than Mexico
are more likely to be better educated and have jobs that pay more.
Like that news paper writer that just announced that he is illegal.
And I.C.E. isn't going after them as much.