Thread: Court Orders a New Delay on Illegal Worker Rules

Throw this judge in prison. What is going on in NYC and SF.

A federal judge in San Francisco yesterday extended for 10 days a temporary ban on a central measure in the Bush administration’s campaign to crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants.

After a two-hour hearing, the judge, Charles R. Breyer of Federal District Court, strongly suggested that he was leaning against the government in the case.

The ban further delayed the start of a rule, which establishes steps an employer must follow after receiving a notice from the Social Security Administration, known as a no-match letter, reporting that an employee’s identity information does not match the agency’s records. According to the rule, originally scheduled to take effect Sept. 14, if the employee cannot clarify the mismatch within 90 days, the employer would be required to fire the worker or risk prosecution for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. Those immigrants often provide false Social Security numbers when applying for jobs.

In an Aug. 31 decision, Judge Maxine M. Chesney, also of the San Francisco court, delayed the rule from taking effect before yesterday’s hearing and barred the Social Security Administration from sending out about 141,000 no-match letters, covering 8.7 million employees, which include notices from the Department of Homeland Security about the rule.

“It is clear to me at this point there would be irreparable harm to the plaintiffs,â€

Link to this story

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/02/us/02 ... ref=slogin

Judge Charles R. Breyer
Federal District Court,
450 Golden Gate Ave.
16th Floor
Room 1111
San Francisco, CA 94102

i made a call to get more information and am awaiting for a call back from the clerk. one lady told me that according to the court schedule that there will be no more hearings on this till DEC 7.

docket info c07-4472crb