Think that maintaining properly vetted I-9 forms on your employees isn’t that big a deal?
The answer –it is a big deal–has been driven home forcefully to management at Columbia Farms in Columbia, S.C.
After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid in 2008 discovered hundreds of illegal immigrants working at the poultry plant, most of the [...]
Declaring it is out "to target the root cause of illegal immigration," the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unit are scurrying about to inspect companies’ 1-9 employment verification records to make sure no illegal immigrants are on the payroll.
ICE hit the jackpot recently when it inspected Houston’s IFCO Systems, the [...]
News item from the blogosphere:
Earlier this year, Car Care Inc., a subsidiary of Mace Securities Inc., was ordered to pay a fine of $100,000 and to forfeit $500,000 to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following a 2006 investigation. (At one time, Mace, a manufacturer of security and personal defense products, was one of [...]
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a $2.6-billion-a-year agency. It is also the paper-jammed and -backlogged agency formerly known as the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service).
Ask anybody who’s dealt with the agency in either incarnation and you’ll hear horror stories of standing in blocks-long lines [...]
