No Worries for Illegal Alien Workers Under New DHS Guidlines (sic)

After a two-month review of worksite enforcement policies, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) issued new guidelines on April 30 for its agents in the field. The guidelines appear to reinforce the Obama administration’s intent to gut immigration enforcement, especially when it comes to detaining and removing illegal aliens in the workplace.

Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has stated that the focus of the administration’s enforcement strategy will be the prosecution of employers who hire illegal aliens. However, under the new guidelines, enforcement against employers would likely be very limited. ICE will rely less heavily on tips from workers and others in deciding which companies to target for enforcement. Tips from the public are used routinely in every other area of law enforcement, and have successfully led to prosecutions of employers who hire illegal aliens. However, the new guidelines would curtail the use of informants in immigration enforcement.

Although DHS claims that “ICE will continue to arrest and process for removal any illegal workers who are found in the course of these work-site enforcement actions,â€