Thread: Illegal workers' employers still being pursued

Illegal workers' employers still being pursued

ASSOCIATED PRESS
2:00 a.m. May 1, 2009

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is pursuing employers who knowingly hire and exploit illegal immigrants, a policy not significantly different from the Bush administration's approach.

The guidelines, sent to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents yesterday, call for imposing fines and pressing criminal charges against employers who break the law.

The priority is to go after employers, but the policy says agents will continue to arrest illegal workers as long as local U.S. attorneys commit to prosecuting cases against their employers.

The Obama administration stresses that humanitarian guidelines will be followed in more cases than under President George W. Bush.

As a candidate, Barack Obama promised an immigration policy that would shift emphasis from workplace raids and place greater focus on employers who hire illegal immigrants and overall immigration reform. Some immigration advocates were hopeful that Obama would sign an executive order that would freeze immigration raids, but that hasn't happened.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said the agency will focus on “renewing a priority on employers who are making money off of these illegal immigrants and giving them jobs that should be going to
American workers, as opposed to just counting numbers.â€

Napolitano said building cases against employers could include auditing documents that employees fill out when they join a company, having illegal workers go undercover, and talking to people who regularly interact with the employers.

So DHS is itself willing to hire illegals?
Fire this broad!

I'll believe it when I see it.

Some immigration advocates were hopeful that Obama would sign an executive order that would freeze immigration raids, but that hasn't happened.

80% of American want all the Apple Pie the employers imprisoned, the illegals deported, borders secured, and enforcement of all immigration laws.

Believe what you see not what you hear.....this is all about a new attempt at their CIR bill that =Amnesty!!

When you see an article where they arrested 1 yes one person or Idenity thieft, this is not going to cut it, this is not enforcement!

Also arresting an illegal at a work site and then giving them a green card to carry on as usual is not enforcement!