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An immigration court case to watch

By Darrell Issa
October 31, 2007

To surprisingly little fanfare, this fall the Justice Department filed suit against the state of Illinois for enacting a law that would prevent businesses from acting to comply with United States immigration laws. Illinois Gov. Rod Blagovich, earlier this year, signed legislation prohibiting employers in his state from voluntarily participating in a federal program that allows them to check whether or not a prospective employee is legally in the United States and eligible for employment.

At stake in this court case is a potentially landmark decision about the federal government's ability to enforce our immigration laws. This decision will become even more important now that a federal district court here in California has decided to block the administration's efforts to implement a similar enforcement strategy of sending no-match letters when an employee's Social Security number does not match the name on record. According to the judge who made this highly dubious ruling, businesses “will be irreparably harmed if (the Department of Homeland Security) is permitted to enforce the new rule.â€