Thread: DHS "Safe Harbor" proposal for II employers!!

The National Immigration Law Center website (http://www.nilc.org/) has an action link regarding SS mismatch letters, and how they are harmful, especially to the "most vulnerable".

Clicking on that link I found the most shocking PDF file outlining a DHS proposal that offers employers "safe habor" from being held accountable for hiring illegal aliens! In additon to offering a way for employers to skirt the "knowingly" hired part of current immigration law, it goes a step further by offering a way for employers to keep these employees (if they can't resolve the mis-match within 63 days, they can simply submit a NEW 1-9!).

It is not lost on me that employers have already adopted the proposed modus operandi, despite the fact that nothing short of congressional approval should be required to make this law.

Exerpt:

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
8 CFR Part 274a (<----CFR? Bad omen, IMHO))
[ICE 2377–06; Docket No. ICEB–2006–0004]
RIN 1653–AA50
Safe-Harbor Procedures for Employers
Who Receive a No-Match Letter
AGENCY: Bureau of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
-----------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Immigration
and Customs Enforcement proposes to
amend the regulations relating to the
unlawful hiring or continued
employment of unauthorized aliens.
The amended regulation describes the
legal obligations of an employer, under
current immigration law, when the
employer receives a no-match letter
from the Social Security Administration
or the Department of Homeland
Security. It also describes ‘‘safe-harbor’’
procedures that the employer can follow
in response to such a letter and thereby
be certain that DHS will not find that
the employer had constructive
knowledge that the employee referred to
in the letter was an alien not authorized
to work in the United States.

http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422 ... 6-9303.pdf

Only illegal aliens are the "most vulnerable" and they should have something to worry about!

Employers are already not afraid to hire illegal aliens, especially if they are doing the bare minimum required by law of checking to see if the SS# is valid. That is, not who it really belongs to, just if it's a valid number not belonging to a deceased person. The whole system is is corrupt.

An employer will hire without fear, a person who as recently as July, 2006 worked in Mexico yet their valid SS# was issued in 2003-2004. And really, what are the chances that DHS or ICE will check this employer out? And what on earth can we do about it?

And really, what are the chances that DHS or ICE will check this employer out?

Zero to none? Which are about the same odds that BP agents will now dare to stop drug runners, let alone border jumpers, after learning that two of their own are facing 20 years for doing their job!

This nation is going to have to do a hell of alot more than just faxing and emailing Congress to stop the madness.