Thread: Obama Is Cracking Down On Illegal Hiring

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Obama Administration Intensifies Crackdown On Illegal Workersby James Rosen | January 20, 2011[/size]


In a move aimed at curbing illegal hiring by Fortune 500 companies, the Obama administration announced the creation of a new sub-unit of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that will use the companies' tax documents to purge their payrolls of unauthorized workers and illegal immigrants.

Comprised of fifteen audit specialists based in Crystal City, Virginia, the Employment Compliance Inspection Center will be overseen by John Morton, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is in turn a branch of DHS. The specialists will scour the I-9 tax and employment records of large companies - those employing tens and even hundreds of thousands of people - to determine if their hiring practices violate immigration law.

DHS officials told Fox News the center, which will cost taxpayers over $1 million in its first year of operations, will create greater efficiencies of scale for ICE agents. Where the old model saw 100 ICE agents auditing and raiding a single company, these officials said, now two ICE agents will be able to investigate 100 companies at a time.

At a news conference in Washington Thursday, Morton said his agency had completed some 2,200 similar audits in Fiscal Year 2010, and will exceed that figure in the current fiscal year. "That's a lot of records to verify," Morton told reporters. "Many of our regional offices or our local offices simply don't have the manpower to conduct that kind of inspection or investigation, and I don't want us to be in a position where the size of a particular company prevents the government from exercising its inspection powers."

As a demonstration of ICE's commitment to creating a "culture of compliance" among companies large and small, Morton was accompanied at the news conference by Ken Kimbro, chief human relations officer for Tyson Foods, the Arkansas-based food processing powerhouse that employs 100,000 people in the United States. The two signed an agreement committing Tyson to enrollment in the agency's IMAGE program, which stands for ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers.

However not everyone was as enthusiastic about the program. In a statement to Fox News, Ali Noorani of National Immigration Reform said, "This program has proven to be a huge burden on small business owners. For ICE to hire tax auditors instead of using its limited resources to keep our nation secure, it's not a fiscally responsible decision."

Under IMAGE, companies voluntarily register with ICE to cooperate in audits of their own firms. Six Tyson executives faced criminal charges in the early part of the last decade, stemming from allegations that they conspired with undercover immigration officials to arrange deliveries of unauthorized workers. Two of the executives accepted plea deals, and one committed suicide. In March 2003, Tyson was acquitted by a federal jury of having knowingly hired illegal workers. Related civil litigation remains pending. One in every five beef, chicken, or pork products consumed in America every day is estimated to have been processed by Tyson Foods.

Kimbro said the company now takes a "zero tolerance" approach toward undocumented workers. "We had to take a look at our practices, our protocols," he told reporters as the ICE director looked on. "We have further enhanced our hiring process...the training that we have done around our hiring managers: who does the interview, who does the hiring, how the I-9s are documented and stored, and continual training that takes place."

Morton said the newly hired audit specialists will cast their investigative nets in all geographic regions of the country and across all industries, with a particular eye on power plants and critical infrastructure. "Industries that are particularly critical to the well-being of the United States we are going to pay special attention to," he said.

The director brushed aside a question about the economic impact of the Obama administration's crackdowns on illegal workers, known informally as "silent raids." Immigration lawyers and small business leaders have complained that Americans are often unwilling to take the jobs performed by illegal workers, and that the costs of recreating workforce populations decimated in the silent raids ultimately get passed on to the consumer.

"This is the law," Morton said sternly. "I'm obviously aware of the criticism that in certain industries, the margins are razor thin and that employment verification puts certain companies at a disadvantage. I just disagree with that, and the answer to that criticism is: You've got to follow the law, and we need all of the companies in that particular sector and industry to follow the law....If a company as large as Tyson Foods can get compliance right, any company in the United States can get it right."

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so... hes doing his frikin job for a minute or 2? GOOD. he still wont get re-elected. im not buying the horse shyte.

Only massive companies. Small business's will remain out of this and small business's make up 97.7% of the business's in the US. Not to mention the vast majority of these illegals are working for small business's and not by conglomerates.

Oh great, more protests and lawsuits as Illegals lose their jobs. Ha! Ha!
Maybe they should print this in Spanish and hand it out when they holler, I just want to know why I was fired.

One step in the right direction!! Let us move forward with enforcements.

I can lead the way with this operation, which County and business shall we visit first?

[quote="draindog"]so... hes doing his frikin job for a minute or 2? GOOD. he still wont get re-elected. im not buying the horse shyte.[/quote

most of my friends lost .jobs why the illegal I mmigrant have it now . but I see obama . wake up . & his Administation Intensifies Crackdown On illegal workers . well it about time. may be want to Run for Presidents again . I don't think so I would Like to see donald T run
some one That care about the USA . ship all the Mexico the Hell Back home they have our country one hell of amess & all of the other Country that came over for a vist & are not a Citizen . in m y book if you did not come to Ellis Island & have tests IQ Test & all the other test . you are Not American Citizen im from the old School
ICE come down to NYC & check it out . you will catch all the Illegal Immigrants .
No Amnesty

I'm seeing on news now the opposite of what I saw yesterday saying effects small business now also. Maybe was a mistake in what I saw... I was like "WTF!" when heard only major business's.

Lets see how walmart looks imo. Time for a full walmart raid woot!