Chertoff: Judicial Ruling Will Not Stop Immigration Enforcement

10/15/2007 - portsecuritynews.com


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A ruling by a federal judge last week (October 10) that would block a federal crackdown on businesses that hire illegal immigrants will not stop the Department of Homeland Security from enforcing immigration law, said DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff.



U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco, in extending an earlier injunction, criticized a government plan to punish businesses that don’t fire workers whose Social Security numbers fail to match government records. He said the records have so many errors that, with only a 90-day time frame, the verification process would “result in the termination of employment to lawfully employed workers.â€