SSB Employer Immigration Compliance Blog
The SSB Employer Immigration Compliance Blog is Greg Siskind’s blog discussing the altest news on employer immigration law compliance including I-9’s, e-verify, social security no match letters, criminal enforcement and state and local legislation.
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ARIZONA NOT PROSECUTING EMPLOYER SANCTIONS CASES
My last post discussed one of two parts to the Arizona immigration law - the requirement to use E-Verify. The more controversial part of the law allows the state to revoke business licenses for employers who employ unlawfully present workers. According to a report in the Arizona Republic, after a...
CIS OMBUDSMAN GIVES MIXED REVIEW OF ARIZONA E-VERIFY EXPERIENCE
Last year at this time, we were telling Arizona employers to get their acts together and get ready to start using E-Verify. Beginning January 1, 2008, all employers in that state have been required to use the electronic employment verification system. Now that a year has passed, it is easier to...
NEBRASKA GOVERNOR WON'T ISSUE E-VERIFY EXECUTIVE ORDER
Nebraska Governor Dave Heinemann refuses to follow governors in Rhode Island and Minnesota in requiring state contractors and state agencies to use E-Verify.
US CHAMBER SUES OVER FEDERAL CONTRACTOR E-VERIFY RULE
The gist is that the 1996 immigration act which created E-Verify said that the program was voluntary. Also, requiring the re-verification of existing employees exceeds the statute's mandate. The suit alleges as well that the regulation exceeds the parameters of the Federal Property and...
IFCO NAILED FOR $21 MILLION FOR VIOLATING IMMIGRATION LAWS
This is a record fine against an employer for IRCA violations. The pallet maker is paying the massive fine to avoid criminal prosecution.
NEW I-9 COMING SOON
USCIS announced on its web site today that it is releasing shortly an interim final rule on I-9s and 45 days after that a new I-9 form must be used by the nation's employers. Not a ton of changes, but there is now a separate box for claiming to be a non-citizen national (up until now there was a...
KOSHER MEAT SHORTAGE WORSENS IN WAKE OF AGRIPROCESSORS RAID
More fall out from the raid of the country's largest Kosher meat plant. The company, which supplied 60% of the Kosher beef in the US and 40% of the plant is now closed.
BP REFINERY IN INDIANA RAIDED
The refinery was targeted because it fits in to the "critical infrastructure" category. 15 janitorial workers were arrested.
NEW YORK COUNTY PROPOSING EMPLOYER SANCTIONS RULE
Putnam County, New York is considering a law that would permit the revocation of business licenses for certain types of small businesses. My favorite quote from the story is actually in the reader comments:I can think of one person who benefits from illegal immigrants: The Consumer, whose cost of...
ARIZONA MUNICIPALITY WARNING CONTRACT EMPLOYERS
The Arizona Republic reports that city of Mesa officials are sitting down with companies that may be employing illegally present workers and warning them that they will lose out on doing business with the city if they don't straighten out.
