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 [...]
This week a House-Senate panel reconciling budget measures voted to extend for three years the E-Verify online employment eligibility system. At the same time, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) formally withdrew the "no match" safe harbor rule of the Bush administration.
The Bush-era "no match" rule gave employers three months to straighten out mismatched employee [...]
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 [...]
