Obama administration targets employers in immigration enforcement

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By Jean Hopfensperger, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted November 24, 2009 at 1:44 p.m.

The Obama administration’s new immigration strategy, focusing more on crackdowns on employers than worker deportations, has an early test case in Minnesota. More than 1,200 workers from American Building Maintenance Co. left their jobs last month after immigration agents conducted an audit of the company — an audit that revealed they were working illegally. But instead of the workers being taken into custody, they were allowed to return to their homes. The Minneapolis company reportedly is still under investigation.

“This is the new enforcement regime of the Obama administration, but we’re not sure what to make of it,â€