9/4/07 6:30 AM
Society For Human Resource Management:
Judge Blocks Immigration Enforcement Rules


By Bill Leonard
http://www.shrm.org/hrnews_published/ar ... 022888.asp

A federal judge in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order on Aug. 31, 2007, blocking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from enforcing a new set of immigration enforcement rules. Attorneys with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had sought the restraining order on the behalf of the AFL-CIO, the National Immigration Law Center and several other labor and immigration rights organizations.

The restraining order prohibits the DHS from enforcing the regulations until Oct. 1, when another federal judge will consider whether to grant a permanent injunction. The DHS regulations would require employers to follow a new set of procedures when receiving “no-matchâ€