The US Department of Homeland Security quadrupled its worksite immigration enforcement actions in fiscal year 2018 and no employer is immune from the increased scrutiny on immigration compliance. Mayer Brown’s Liz Stern and Dan Stein offer five questions to help employers assess their risk in an article published in Bloomberg Business.
Mayer Brown counsel Lisa Pino was quoted in an article featured in The California Lawyer Daily Journal discussing the uptick in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) worksite investigations, which have doubled since October 2017. This increase aligns with the Trump Administration’s immigration policy priorities, published in late 2017, to hire 10,000 more ICE officers
On Thursday, April 6, 2018, federal and state officials arrested approximately 97 workers at a meat-processing facility in Tennessee. The charges faced by the individuals primarily relate to immigration-related offenses.
Media reports noted that the federal affidavit submitted in connection with the raid stated that the facility was targeted as a result of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) criminal investigation related to whether the company had been filing false tax returns and avoiding payment of payroll tax. The company’s bank reported repeated large cash withdrawals to the IRS, which prompted the investigation. The IRS contends the funds were used to pay undocumented workers.Continue Reading ICE Collaboration with IRS a Signal of Intra-Agency Cooperation Across Contexts
In an article discussing the Trump administration’s focus on worksite enforcement featured in Bloomberg Law, Paul Virtue offers key insight into past and future actions by ICE to enforce laws targeting undocumented workers.