Immigration
May 23, 2011
When Immigration Authorities Come Knocking
How employers can protect themselves against "silent raids" by the government for immigration violations. By George L. O'Connell and Craig C. Allison of DLA Piper LLP (U.S.)
For many years, the primary enforcement tool of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) for alleged immigration violations was the workplace "roundup," which focused on identifying and taking into custody undocumented workers. As part of these raids, ICE apprehended thousands of undocumented workers, and prosecuted civil removal hearings against them for unlawfully being in the United States. While ICE occasionally imposed civil penalties and other sanctions on the empl...
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